Actress Bonnie Morgan shared some ugly truths on the podast “Pod Meets World.”
Early in her profession, she was signed to play lead character Topanga Lawrence on the present “Boys Meets World.” She talked with podcast hosts and present forged members Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle about her expertise on the present and the way she felt when she was fired.
“I had three callbacks,” she mentioned. “They kept bringing me back, and … it was rooms full of people every time. And, weirdly, every time I’d audition, we’d talk a lot. Every time I’d come back, the script would change slightly, it seemed, to things we had talked about.”
Morgan felt the function was deeply related to her. Even the identify Topanga “was out of my parents’ love history,” noting they “got married in Topanga Canyon. It was the coolest thing ever.”
But issues weren’t all rainbows and unicorns when the present moved ahead. She revealed she was informed by her agent that present creator Michael Jacobs liked her for the half. However, there was apparently a “power struggle,” and he or she was “stuck in the middle of it.”
She arrived on the set for her first day and instantly felt a vibe.
She remembered “all the adults were short with me” and described the desk learn as “fun” however mentioned issues went downhill after that.
“Now, we’re blocking, and (Ben Savage) started poking at me a little bit. He would make faces and try to break me, and it worked. At this point, I was becoming a nervous wreck,” she recalled. “I couldn’t get his name, the opening line, Cory … and [director] David [Trainer] was just like, ‘Get it together.’ I’m trying to pull it together. I pulled it together in sheer fear, and Ben just kept doing this thing to crack me up.”
“At one point, I had a line. It was a sweet line, and David went, ‘I want you to say it sweeter …’ So, I said it sweeter, and he said, ‘No, I want you to say it.’ And he got really close to me, ‘Like you’re saying happy birthday,’” she added.
She handed that check, and left for hoem feeling issues would get higher.
The subsequent morning, Morgan mentioned the telephone rang throughout breakfast. Her father answered the telephone.
“He just said, ‘What? You’re kidding. They fired you. You’re fired,’” Morgan recalled.
“The director mentioned that I couldn’t take course, which was one factor I’d by no means been accused of.
“My agent immediately fought back on that one. It came out very quickly to my agent that the director didn’t think I was pretty enough. Literally did not think I was pretty enough. So, that meant that a grown man, a boss, could lie and tell me I was untalented because the fact was he didn’t think I was pretty.”
Morgan described feeling “shattered” when she heard the information, saying, “I don’t know a lot of adults that could take that one.”
When the present ultimately aired, the one time she watched was when the pilot premiered.
Morgan recovered and went on to have a profession, greatest often called “Samara” within the horror movie, The Ring. Danielle Fishel went on to play the function of Topanga for seven seasons on “Boy Meets World.”
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