*If you run into Alfonso Ribeiro in public, don’t ask him to the Carlton Dance for you because you might get your feelings hurt.
“I’m a Black guy, I’m just not dancing for you. It’s not gonna happen,” the former “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star, 50, told Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday.
Ribeiro said he gets asked to do the signature dance move “every day of my life if I go outside.”
“What makes you think that you just gonna ask a random person to dance for you, and they’re gonna be like ‘Oh my God, I’ve been waiting for you to ask! Hold on a second, let me get into character,'” Ribeiro explained. “It’s not — I don’t get it. It’s not gonna happen.”
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Kimmel then suggested the actor must “wanna kill people” when they ask him to dance on cue.
“You know, I won’t say kill, but I don’t have a love for it like they do, you know?” Ribeiro said. “I typically get asked to do the dance pretty much every day of my life if I go outside. If I go anywhere, it’s like, you know, I just randomly hear people, ‘Do the dance!’ And you’re like, ‘I’m…I’m not dancing for you, I’m a Black guy, I’m just not dancing for you. It’s not gonna happen.”
In 2018, Ribeiro took legal action against two video game developers for selling a dance popularized by his Carlton character without permission, TMZ reported.
In the lawsuits, Ribeiro said Fortnite developer Epic Games Inc., and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., creator of the NBA 2K series, have “unfairly profited” from using his likeness and from exploiting his “protected creative expression.”
He ultimately dropped his lawsuits.
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