The Family Matters legend speaks to VF about the hard lessons, difficult relationships—with figures from Les Moonves to Bill Cosby—and silver linings of being a young icon.
White spoke to Vanity Fair about how Steve Urkel—and his cool alter ego, Stefan Urquelle—captured a generation and how his parents kept him grounded throughout it all. “My mom was a hover mom,” he explained. “That’s how I was protected in that particular way. Her instinct was always to just keep me in a child’s place and keep me on path to going to college.” Though the show went off the air in 1998, White has been working as an actor ever since.
Why did you decide to tell that story through the conversation you had with your parents about it? So, I’m not going to play into that narrative that Jo Marie Payton tried to paint that I was difficult. I’m not playing that crap. I’m sure when you look back in your time when you were in middle school, I’m sure you gave your parents some hard times over different things. So I prefer it be framed that way. It’s just for me, my middle school experience was heightened.
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