During a mini Beverly Hills, 90210 reunion on Shannen Doherty’s Let’s Be Clear podcast, she and Jason Priestley admitted that their characters had some… odd sibling chemistry.
The two actors performed twin siblings Brenda and Brandon Walsh on the hit ’90s teen drama.
“Brenda and Brandon were always so interesting because we had an interesting relationship. There was this sexual undertone of Brenda and Brandon that to this day is hysterical,” Doherty defined.
Doherty additionally recalled how throughout a conference, a fan requested her to signal a photograph of the pair.
“I was like, ‘This is inappropriate for brother and sister,’” she stated of the picture she signed.
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The stars additionally mentioned a 1992 Rolling Stone cowl picture shoot they did.
“I’m like, straddling you. So bizarre. There were a lot of bizarre things that happened with us,” Doherty laughed.
“It’s pretty funny,” Priestley agreed.
According to Us Weekly, Doherty beforehand addressed the unusual picture shoot throughout 90s Con in September 2023.
“He’s, like, behind me, and we’re all, like, sexy, and I’m like, ‘Oh, no, this is wrong. This is crazy.’ But we were always sort of an inappropriate brother and sister … so it was fantastic,” she stated.
The duo’s chemistry sparked off-screen courting rumors throughout their time on the present, however Priestley denied them throughout a 1993 Howard Stern interview, per New York Post.
The actor additionally vaguely mentioned the rumors in his 2015 self-titled memoir, writing, “Various combinations of people slept with each other over the years. Nobody ever got attached. We never let it get in the way of what we were doing. I will let you know that nobody ever got — work always superseded everything.”
Priestley starred on 90210 for all of its 10 seasons, whereas Doherty left after Season 4. On her podcast she defined that her private life behind the scenes impacted her work, resulting in her eventual firing from the present.
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