‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ creator says network got ‘bent out of shape’ after Dylan and Brenda had sex
nypost.comBeverly Hills, 90210” before he moved on to “Sex and the City” and “Emily in Paris,” recalled how the network wasn’t happy after Shannen Doherty’s character, Brenda Walsh, and Luke Perry’s character, Dylan McKay, had sex. “They had a lot of notes.
Everything about sexuality was hard to deal with,” he told Vulture in a recent interview. “Initially, they were like, ‘Where are the parents?
Where are the teachers?’ And I’m like, it’s not a show about parents and teachers. It’s a show about these friends who were there for each other, solving each other’s problems.”The teen drama ran for 10 seasons on Fox from 1990 to 2000, launching the careers of Doherty, Perry, Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth, Jason Priestley and Brian Austin Green.
Toward the end of Season 1, Star wrote and directed an episode where Brenda and Dylan have sex after prom. After the it aired, there was backlash.“When all these affiliates realized what they’d aired, a lot of them got bent out of shape,” Star said.He explained, “And it wasn’t just the fact that Brenda had sex but that she enjoyed it.
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