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Boy Meets World Cast Mends Rift With Trina McGee
There were nary problems erstwhile Girl met Girl.
And yet, erstwhile Maitland Ward joined the formed of Boy Meets World for its past 2 seasons arsenic Rachel, the show’s producers, including creator Michael Jacobs, appeared to effort to effect a rivalry betwixt her and Danielle Fishel, who played Topanga.
“A batch of radical said Danielle would hatred maine due to the fact that I was the miss coming in,” Rachel reflected successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. “But she didn’t. She was precise bully to maine erstwhile I came in. It’s weird that radical would like, acceptable that up.”
As Maitland recalled, producers connected the bid continued to reiterate, “‘Oh yeah, she’s gonna hatred you due to the fact that you’re the caller miss and you’re gangly and like, the sexy miss oregon whatever.’”
The White Chicks actress—who has since gone connected to person a palmy vocation successful the big amusement industry—noted that their producers’ words were not “diabolical,” but alternatively an “offhand remark that girls wouldn’t get on with different girls, oregon girls would beryllium against each other.”
As for what it was like erstwhile she and Danielle yet met?
“She decidedly didn’t look to hatred me,” Maitland, 47, wrote successful her memoir, My Escape from Hollywood: Unapologetic, Unfiltered and Unashamed, which deed shelves past month. “In fact, we connected implicit things you wouldn’t expect, similar our emotion of Chihuahuas and favored rats. Still, nary substance however good we got along, determination would ever beryllium a portion of maine that distrusted her and her motives toward me, and it each stemmed from Michael’s archetypal warnings.”
The Bold and Beautiful histrion besides shared however her entranceway connected Boy Meets World successful 1997 signified a caller chapter, “the assemblage years”—as, from her perspective, the amusement attempted to support up with the popularity of Friends.
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During this time, Maitland recovered the women connected set—including herself, Danielle and Trina McGee, who played Angela—were enactment into stereotyped boxes: she describes herself arsenic “the provocative one,” portion labeling Danielle, 43, arsenic “the aureate child,” and Trina, 55, arsenic “the grown-up."
And looking backmost astatine the show—which ended successful 2000 aft 7 seasons—she tin spot however overmuch that container shaped her character.
“I was much of the sexy 1 and it's comic looking backmost connected each of the episodes,” she explained to E! News. I was truthful overmuch portion of the intersexual butt of the gag and a batch of them. At the clip I had nary thoughts of like, it was thing fetishy oregon intersexual but looking backmost now, I'm like, ‘Wow, that if I did that naked, I could merchantability that connected OnlyFans.’ You know?”
Despite her reflections, Maitland doesn’t look backmost sourly astatine her clip connected Boy Meets World. In fact, successful summation to her enduring friendship with prima Ben Savage, she describes her existent narration with the show’s creator arsenic “wonderful,” particularly aft helium called her to sermon immoderate of the issues she brings up successful her memoir.
“I springiness him truthful galore props for calling maine and we conscionable spoke for similar an hr and a half,” she noted. “We truly hashed a batch of worldly out. He's precise supportive.”
E! News reached retired to Michael Jacobs for remark but has not yet heard back.
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