Danielle Fishel Reveals She Was Almost Fired From ‘Boy Meets World’ at 12-Years-Old
usmagazine.comDream, try … or don’t come back? Danielle Fishel revealed she was almost fired from Boy Meets World — when she was only 12-years-old.
Fishel, 41, starred as Topanga Lawerence on the hit sitcom from 1993 to 2000, but while looking back at her first ever rehearsal for the ABC series during a July episode of “Pod Meets World” with former costars Will Friedle and Rider Strong, she recalled how series creator Michael Jacobs almost gave her the boot. “Michael starts off the notes by saying, ‘Danielle, I’m going to give you your notes all at one time, at the end and I’m going to give everyone else their notes now,'” the Girl Meets World alum said. “’Because if I made everyone sit here through all of the notes I had for you, we would all be here for hours and no one would ever get to go home.
So you’re just going to wait for the end.'”She continued, “From that moment on I remember my eyes welled up because I’m in front of everybody.
All of the producers all of the writers all of the cast and all eyes are on me for a second.”The Arizona native went on to explain that she was a very “bubbly, fast-talking [and] spunky,” child who found it “very hard to speak slowly,” which seemingly annoyed the showrunner, 67.
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