Will Smith recreates classic Fresh Prince kitchen disaster scene (complete with burning pot!)

He delighted fans this week by reuniting the cast of his hit sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air for a TV special and burying the hatchet with former co-star Janet Hubert.

And Will Smith kept the nostalgia coming on Friday night, when he created a classic scene where his namesake character burned down the family kitchen while cooking.

Taking to Instagram, the star, 52, shared a clip of himself walking past a steaming pot to answer the phone, before feigning shock as the pot burst into flames.

He then ended the brief video with a still from the actual scene, first aired back in 1995, showing his mischievous character in the exact same pose.

Captioning the amusing post, the father-of-three wrote: ‘This is why nobody lets me cook. #FreshPrinceReunion.’

In the season six episode, entitled Burnin’ Down The House, Will attempts to flambé, after finding that he’s home alone with nobody to do it for him.

After pouring half a bottle of cognac into the pot, expected chaos soon ensues, and he shoos his cousin Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) off the phone as he fights the fire.

Though he eventually tempers the flame by by throwing a dish towel on the pot, things get worse when the material catches on fire – destroying the entire kitchen.

As well as looking back on the fun aspects of his show, Will also had an emotional confab with Janet Hubert on the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air reunion.

The two of them emotionally ended their 27-year feud during the HBO Max special – with clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula on hand at the scene.

In a new Red Table Talk with Ramani released on Friday, Will broke down the feud and shared some heartrending never-before-seen outtakes from his talk with Janet.

During the conversation, which was taped in September but streamed on Thursday, Will could be seen telling Janet that ‘I felt like you hated me.’ 

On the new Red Table Talk, Will aired a tearful bit of Janet’s response that was not included on the HBO Max special.

‘I hated what you did. I just hated what you did. You took my career away of 30-something years,’ she said, struggling not to cry.

‘You just went too far when you were younger and I know you always had to win,’ she said, referring to the way her professionalism was smeared during the feud.

Will confessed that he ‘went way too far and said things to people that wouldn’t know how to hold that information, and then once you put it in, then the machine grabs it. Then they start putting their own spin on it.’

Janet also said the feud resulted in ’30 years of shunning’ and likened her situation to a ’30-year life sentence,’ sharing: ‘I’m so tired from all of this.’

In another outtake from the reunion special she said that ‘black people beat my a**’ over the feud, having taken Will’s side.

‘They beat my son’s a**. Somebody smashed a cookie in my son’s face and said: “Your mother is a b****.” People send me hateful Instagrams. “Aren’t you dead yet? I love Will. Why don’t you just die?” It was hard. It was hard’ she said.

‘And I promised my dad before he left this earth – and you know, you lost your dad – that I would clear my name ’cause it’s his name and my family said: “You’ve ruined our name.” But you’re the big star, you know? I’m just the old black b****.’

She and Will became so overcome that they decided to leave the set briefly, take a break to get Janet some water and then resume the chat.

On Red Table Talk with Ramani, Will traced his problems back to his own childhood when he alleged his mother Carolyn was being abused by his father Willard.

The movie star said that he became a jokester as a way of diverting his father’s attention so he would not ‘hurt my mother or anybody in the house.’

Now when ‘someone comes at me’ his ‘defense mechanism’ is either to get ‘people laughing’ or to ‘cut you bad enough’ that ‘you wouldn’t be able to respond.’ 

He transplanted this ‘family dynamic’ to the set of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air – in particular with Janet since she was playing Aunt Viv, a ‘parental figure.’

Will felt intimidated by Janet because she was a Julliard-educated triple threat, added to which the show was helping him climb out of millions in tax debt.

Explaining that ‘my little boy desperately needed her approval,’ he added that ‘I felt threatened’ by Janet, saying he ‘needed Mommy to think I was great, and then once I realized that she didn’t, the – my dragon woke up.’

He also admitted that ‘female disapproval’ became ‘the central greatest pain in my life’ because of his inability to ‘protect’ Carolyn from Willard.

When he was on the show he felt ‘safety also extends to money’ which in his mind prevented women from being unfaithful, as a recent girlfriend of his had been.

Janet, 64, played Aunt Viv on the first three seasons of the sitcom but left in 1993, setting off a public war of words with Will and the collapse of her career. 

While filming season three Janet was pregnant with her son Elijah – and on the reunion special she alleged she was in a ‘very abusive marriage’ at the time. 

At that point Janet was with her first husband James Whitten, whom she ultimately divorced in 1994, the year after she left The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.

She said in a confessional that when she was working during her tough pregnancy: ‘I was no longer laughing, smiling, joking, because there were things that were going on that nobody knew about. The cast had no idea what was going on.’

‘You know, during that time of her pregnancy I wasn’t sensitive. I wasn’t perceptive,’ Will admitted in his own confessional. ‘And you know, now that I’ve had three kids I’ve learned some things that I did not know at the time and I would do things very differently, but I can see where I made the set very difficult for Janet.’

Janet also denied the reports that she was fired, saying she left over a ‘really bad deal’ that limited the amount of work she could do on the sitcom while also hemming her into a non-compete arrangement.

‘So that meant my salary was cut. I had a new baby and a husband who was out of work. So I said no. I did not accept their offer. I was never fired,’ she insisted. 

Janet told Will: ‘And I wasn’t unprofessional on the set. I just stopped talking to everybody because I didn’t know who to trust because I’d been banished, and they said it was you who banished me, because you were Will. You were a kid.’

She explained: ‘I lost everything. Reputation, everything. Everything. And I understand you were able to move forward, but you know those words, calling a black woman “difficult” in Hollywood is the kiss of death.’

She went on: ‘It’s the kiss of death, and it’s hard enough being a dark-skinned black woman in this business. But I felt it was necessary for us to finally move forward – and I’m sorry that I have blasted you to pieces,’ she added with a laugh.

She touched his cheek and he placed a hand on her shoulder while he said: ‘I could not do a 30-year celebration of this show and not celebrate you – celebrate your contribution to the show, celebrate your contribution to my life.’

‘I didn’t come here to have animosity. I came here to resolve ’cause it’s time,’ she said in a confessional, calling her conversation with Will ‘healing.’ 

Will’s chat with Janet was taped in September after she posted to her Instagram fan page urging him to discuss their problems with her face to face.

‘So September comes after August it’s the 30th anniversary a Fresh Prince. And they want to start a war. Well here is my challenge – we can either keep this war going for another 30 years but I’m not going to, or you can sit down with me and talk to me and not about me Mr. Smith then let’s do it,’ wrote Janet.

‘Can you only sit and talk about your strange unsavory problems in front of the world?’ she said, apparently having a dig at Will’s recent Red Table Talk with his wife Jada Pinkett Smith about her affair with R&B singer August Alsina. 

‘Accept my challenge or shut up! Either you’re telling the truth and the BLACK MEN of the cast are telling the truth or I’m telling the truth. And only YOU and I… and quite a few others, know the truth let’s do this do YOU have the courage? #seeyouinseptember,’ Janet concluded.

Will apparently accepted her challenge as the pair sat down for the reunion taping this September 9, 30 years to the day since the show premiered.

Janet had publicly held Will responsible for her exit from the show, calling him an ‘egomaniac’ during a 2011 interview where she said a reunion was off the table.

‘There will never be a reunion…as I will never do anything with an a**hole like Will Smith,’ she declared to TMZ, adding that ‘This constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn’t know the word.’

Five years later she said on YouTube that while on the show she approached Will to help her and their co-stars negotiate a wage hike ‘like they did on Friends.’

She claimed that Will rebuffed her efforts, alleging that he told her: ‘My deal is my deal and y’all’s deal is y’all’s deal.’

‘I can say straight up that Janet Hubert wanted the show to be The Aunt Viv Of Bel-Air Show because I know she is going to dog me in the press,’ Will said on the radio in Atlanta the year she left the series.

‘She has basically gone from a quarter of a million dollars a year to nothing. She’s mad now but she’s been mad all along,’ he added.

‘She said once: “I’ve been in the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show.” No matter what, to her I’m just the AntiChrist.’

Four years ago Janet appeared on The Real and discussed the aftermath of her departure from The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.

‘Janet Hubert was never difficult on that set. Janet Hubert was so professional it wasn’t even funny. I think Will simply needed to win and I think sometimes when you get caught up in a lie – and those things never happened,’ Janet insisted.

‘She never left the set. I never left the set. We got along great. I think he was young and he was inexperienced and I think he simply had to win.’

Referring to Will’s then-manager James Lassiter she said: ‘I spoke to JL when my dad died and my brother died and I begged them, I said: “I have a family. I need you to tell the world that this stuff didn’t happen.” And I was waiting in my heart thinking: “Somebody will come to me one day and help me,” but they didn’t.’