Another Boy Meets World actor who had bother with co-stars?!
A pair years after Trina McGee blasted “three acting colleagues” for racism on the set of the TGIF favourite, co-star Maitland Ward is beginning to air her grievances.
It seems the actress who performed Rachel McGuire on the beloved coming-of-age sitcom within the late ’90s didn’t all the time have the very best time filming the Disney Channel present. And issues are nonetheless bizarre with one explicit castmate: Danielle Fishel, the one and solely Topanga.
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Maitland spoke to TooFab on Thursday about her upcoming memoir Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood. Yes, in case you forgot, she’s the Disney star who discovered a really profitable profession — award-winning even — within the grownup business.
Funny sufficient, it’s the expertise she’s gotten from her new job that’s modified her perspective on the one she fretted over a lot twenty years in the past. She defined she had rewatched a few of Boy Meets World to refresh her reminiscence for the ebook, during which she opens up about her expertise behind the scenes. Seeing a few of that content material, she stated, “was the most mind-blowing thing,” — as a result of she lastly realized “how sexualized” she was!
Maitland was a 21-year-old simply beginning out, so — like many kids’s present actresses who in recent times have been re-evaluating how they had been used — she didn’t suppose too onerous in regards to the issues she was being requested to do on the time. For occasion:
“One of my first things, we had a food fight where I’m rubbing my feet on Will Friedle’s face. We’re rolling around in marinara sauce and beating them with a big baguette. Someone in the offices at ‘Boy Meets World’ and Disney had a foot fetish and food fetish. Having been in porn, I can recognize that now. Back then I was like, ‘It’s a fun food fight.’ Someone wanted to see my feet on his face.”
Wow! We can not blame her for making these leaps contemplating what’s come out about different “family show” creators currently. You be the choose on that one, we guess!
She continued:
“At the time, I just thought it was my job and that’s what I had to do and I thought I was being a good actress and performer to go along with whatever was given to me. I didn’t realize at the the time, how sexualized it was and there was something that felt devaluing to me because I always felt like I was nervous about my body, I wanted to be sexy to everyone, especially the producers and stuff, but if I was too sexy I would be berated for it.”
In explicit she means she was chastised for trying too attractive throughout her off hours. She remembers being learn the riot act for carrying a crop high:
“It was very confusing because I was wearing lingerie on the show, but then if I was wearing a crop top or something, they would be like, ‘You look crazy, you’re going to ruin the image of the show.’ I felt very uncomfortable with my body in that way because I felt like, okay, I have to use it to be sexy in order to do well at my work and to keep my job going as a star of the show, but on the other hand, I can’t do that in my real life. I have to walk this line that they drew for me. They always wanted to have me walking that line.”
The use of her sexuality on the present made her physique really feel like “prop” — and that she “needed to be compliant when they wanted to use my body as a story point.”
So yeah, she has so much to say about her time on the present. Seems like that may make her a perfect visitor on the brand new Pod Meets World podcast, proper? If you haven’t heard, Will Friedle, Rider Strong, and Danielle Fishel are rewatching your entire sequence ranging from the start. When requested if she’d ever be on it, Maitland first revealed her rift with a sure castmate:
“I have to say, Will is amazing. Will has called me, he’s kept in touch with me, he tells me he supports me — and he says he won’t watch anything I do because I’m a sister to him — but Danielle I think hates me.”
Sorry, what??
“It’s a very weird relationship with Danielle because I haven’t spoken to her at all and she barely spoke to me when I was at the set of Girl Meets World.”
An essential notice: Maitland was not invited again to be on the sequel sequence, this was a for a reunion particular earlier than the present began. She believes she was unwelcome on Girl Meets World, not due to porn — this was earlier than that started — however due to her scantily clad Comic-Con cosplay. Yes, actually. Behind the scenes they had been nonetheless upset about her trying too attractive.
In any case, we simply need to know what’s occurring between Maitland and Danielle! She defined:
“We didn’t have any beef, we didn’t have any falling out or anything, she came to my wedding, we were friends, she was amazing and we have a great picture of us I cherish. But after that she just did not want anything to do with me, she did not invite me to her wedding. I wrote her a note before her wedding, even though she didn’t invite me, I just wanted to write her a note, and no response.”
Eep! Sounds like she thinks she’s been ghosted! And she by no means even bought to see the shrimp cereal man get married!
But Danielle makes it sound like it might be a misunderstanding they will repair — possibly even with a podcast go to! In a press release to TooFab responding to Maitland’s interview, she wrote:
“I went to Maitland’s wedding in 2006 and unfortunately never received a note from her after. I’m unaware of any issues between us and when we asked her months ago if she would come on the podcast, she agreed. I can’t wait to catch up with her.”
We can’t wait both — to take heed to them hash this out!
[Image via MEGA/WENN/Danielle Fishel/Instagram.]
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