It Was ‘Creepy’ Kissing Women on ‘Boy Meets World’

Will Friedle and Rider Strong have numerous Eric Matthews and Shawn Hunter moments to sift by whereas rewatching Boy Meets World for his or her new podcast, however there’s one facet of their John Adams Excessive expertise that they’d moderately not revisit.

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“Rider and I speak about one of many issues is the fixed kissing. We had been kissing women each week and it was sort of creepy the way in which it stored taking place. And there was by no means a narrative that it’s not just like the actresses had fantastic story strains. It was simply, like, you’re there to kiss us that week. It was actually sort of gross,” Friedle, 45, completely tells Us Weekly.

“Additionally, it’s not tremendous enjoyable to look at your teenage self making out,” Sturdy, 42, chimes in. “That’s not one thing you actually wanna look again on.”

The actors and their former costar Danielle Fishel launched their “Pod Meets World” podcast in June. Whereas Fishel, 41, agreed there was “a lot kissing,” it’s really the later episodes within the collection that she’s bracing for.

“The cringy episodes will not be the start ones. I’m a bit frightened about as soon as we get into highschool after which into faculty the place a number of the Topanga story strains with Corey and, I don’t even keep in mind a ton of the episodes, however I simply know that because the present bought older and our characters bought older circumstances and story strains bought a bit extra cringey from my reminiscence of them than, like, the extra harmless story strains at first,” she explains. “And I do know Will finds it cringey to be watching the early episodes. As a result of he’s so laborious on himself about his performing.”

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“Am I performing?” he jokes. “The primary few episodes are fairly, fairly robust to look at, however yeah, it’s additionally as a result of none of us actually — I did one thing I wasn’t speculated to do and I went ahead, not watching the present, however I clicked on Disney+ simply to see a number of the episode titles from the longer term seasons and I didn’t keep in mind, like, 80 %. So I do know there’s gonna be issues developing that none of us keep in mind that we’re all gonna go, ‘Oh wow. That’s not a superb factor in any respect.’”

The longtime friends performed Eric, Shawn and Topanga Lawrence, respectively, on the beloved collection, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000.

Ben Savage, who performed Cory Matthews, opted out of doing the podcast. Sturdy, who performed his finest pal on display, is trying ahead to 1 episode particularly between the 2.

“I’m trying ahead to within the first season there’s an episode the place Ben and I play previous males,” he reveals to Us. “And we went by, like, hours of make-up and it’s a kind of issues that, like, we used to cite as a solid for the remainder of the season. ‘They need you to take the rolls.’ After which folks have made T-shirts with that very same line. Yeah. So it’s a kind of moments the place, like, our expertise making the present had these joke strains that we thought had been humorous that the followers utterly independently additionally picked up and liked. And so there’s been this bizarre suggestions loop.”

The director and Friedle also vividly remember Eric breaking apart with Corinna, performed by The L Phrase’s Alicia Haley.

“‘Shallow Boy’! Nice episode,” Sturdy says.

“She sung each track on the desk learn and was so wonderful. And simply stole that episode,” Friedle recollects. “I can’t wait to see if she’s pretty much as good as I keep in mind her being, which I’m certain she’s going to be.”

The trio shall be inviting a number of visitor stars onto their present, with William Daniels (Mr. Feeny), William Russ (Alan Matthews) and Lee Norris (Stewart Minkus) are already making appearances.

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“If I needed to choose a solid member that I might’ve favored to have caught round longer, it will be Minkus,” Fishel admits, as Sturdy agrees. “Lee is so good, unbelievable, such an unbelievable actor,” he says. “He was so significantly better than the remainder of us. All of us are simply sort of like youngsters discovering performing. And Lee was already a professional at that time. And he had such an outlined character and so it makes me unhappy that he left the present after the primary season. And it wasn’t any fault of his personal. We’ve realized after the truth that quite a lot of it appears to have been as a result of there was already Urkel on the lineup, and so they didn’t need too many nerds. It was, like, a community directive. And it’s too dangerous. As a result of Lee was an incredible character. So enjoyable.”

Alex Désert is one other actor they need had caught round longer as Eli. “I assumed that that was an actual missed alternative to have one other instructor character and sort of give a number of the adults a possibility to have extra grownup interactions and folks to speak to. And he’s such a expertise,” Fishel tells Us.

Sturdy chimes in: “He was so wasted on our present, I feel. Yeah. He was introduced on within the second season, him and Tony. And I feel it was as a result of they needed to have these grownup, cool schoolteachers. However there’s simply not sufficient room story sensible. At that time we have now, like, 10 characters on our present.” Friedle, for his half, referred to as Désert “so good,” however joked that his subsequent job was perhaps extra suited to him. “After which he went off and did Becker and I feel received Emmys. Like, ‘Oh, see that’s what he needs to be doing,’” he says.

Matthew Lawrence (Jack Hunter) and Tony Quinn (Mr. Turner) are additionally set to drop by, with Sturdy noting that they’d like to have Linda Cardellini (Lauren) too.

When not chatting with their former costars, the podcast hosts will even be looking back on behind-the-scenes moments on set. When the solid wasn’t enjoying contact soccer with “the youngsters from Dwelling Enchancment,” Friedle says, they had been consuming meatballs on the craft service desk. Or a minimum of he was.

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“Our craft service man made the identical meatballs on a regular basis,” he says, laughing.

“You don’t keep in mind?” Fishel questions Sturdy.

“I don’t keep in mind that!” he responds. “I used to be a vegetarian.”

Friedle teases: “So the ‘actual’ folks on the present had been consuming these wonderful meatballs to the purpose the place, after we interviewed a bunch of our writers on the finish [of the series] for a video that Rider and I did, one thing like 80 % of ’em had been like, ‘I’m gonna miss the meatballs. I’m gonna miss the meatballs greater than the rest.’”

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