Rider Sturdy went by means of drama in entrance of and behind the digicam throughout the later years of filming Boy Meets World.
Sturdy and his costars Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle revisited Season 6, Episode 14, of the sitcom on the Thursday, June 19, episode of their Pod Meets World podcast. Titled “Getting Hitched,” the story noticed Sturdy’s Shawn Hunter and his brother, Jack (Matthew Lawrence), cope with the dying of their father, Chet (Blake Clark), the episode prior.
Whereas clearing out their dad’s trailer, the brothers get into an argument after Shawn learns that Jack’s stepfather was answerable for paying his faculty tuition, not Chet. It was whereas filming the emotional scene that Sturdy stated he had a “breakdown” on set.
“I simply bear in mind, throughout rehearsal for this scene. … I used to be actually bored by my character,” Sturdy recalled on the podcast. “What’s humorous is, on reflection, that is truly a well-written episode for Shawn. He’s lastly expressing one thing. However I bear in mind throughout rehearsal, I simply misplaced it. I used to be like, ‘I really feel like I’m saying the identical factor each week.’”
Sturdy famous that his breakdown might have been as a result of he “was simply uninterested in being on the present,” including, “I used to be like, ‘Why [do] they maintain throwing drama at me?’ Now it, that is on the heels of an episode the place they killed my father and actually put loads of strain on us as actors, strain on Blake and Matt and me.”
Now, Sturdy doesn’t credit score his feelings to “an issue with the way in which the scene was written” however to “simply feeling all this strain to instantly should do all this drama.”
Fishel jokingly in contrast the present to a cleaning soap opera, dubbing the sequence “The Days of Our Boy Meets World.”
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Friedle, in the meantime, stated he might relate to Sturdy feeling frustration over his character’s story. “This simply reveals how self-absorbed we type of had been as folks and as actors as a result of I might sit there and watch you and go, like, ‘Why don’t they offer me any of that?’ Why don’t I ever get an opportunity to do any of that?” the actor, who performed Eric Matthews, acknowledged. “The place truly, once we’re going again and watching the present, they gave me loads of that. I had fairly a little bit of the dramatic stuff.”
Sturdy added, “There was an understanding on set about our abilities and about our skills, and we had been type of [pitted] towards one another. … There was this sense of, ‘What are they getting over there?’ Will [was] the true comedy actor, and I felt like I wasn’t allowed to have enjoyable.”
Boy Meets World ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000. The sequence adopted Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) as he and his buddies navigated the ups and downs of rising up below the steerage of their faculty trainer, Mr. Feeny (William Daniels).