Danielle Fishel says her weight gain was used for a ‘funny’ storyline on ‘Boy Meets World’
nypost.com“Pod Meets World” podcast, the 43-year-old recalled how her and her co-star Will Friedle’s weight gain was written into an episode of the ’90s coming-of-age sitcom.“I remember when they called me into the office to tell me they were going to [do it].
It wasn’t really like they asked,” Fishel told her podcast co-host and “Boy Meets World” co-star Rider Strong and “Full House” alum Candace Cameron Bure.“They just said, ‘We just want you to know, obviously, you guys have gained a little bit of weight, so we’re going to write an episode about it, and we just wanted you to know, and here’s what it’s going to be.
It’s going to be really funny.’ “As a former child actress herself, Bure, 48, was shocked over Fishel’s story.“Do you see my jaw on the floor right now?
What?” she said.Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence on the teen series, said she was upset that Friedle, who played Eric Matthews, seemed unbothered by the weight-gain storyline.“I remember the hardest part for me was that meeting because Will very much was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m totally fine with it,’ just immediately, which I know now he was very insecure, and it was really painful for him,” she recalled. “But I didn’t know that,” Fishel added. “He was so funny and such an amazing actor and was like, ‘Yeah, sure, that’s no problem.
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