Before Brian Austin Green found fame as David Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210, he was fired from a preferred sitcom.
During an interview for the Monday, March 16, episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast, hosted by former Boy Meets World stars Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle, Green, 52, revealed he was let go from NBC’s My Two Dads which aired from 1987 to 1990.
“I used to be on one episode of My Two Dads and it was the one time that I used to be ever fired,” Green said on the podcast. “We had been rehearsing, after which we did a run-through, and I had a scene sitting at a table with Staci Keanan, who was on that show, and there was someone else and I used to be really recent to sitcoms and I just didn’t completely understand the timing of it and … they were like, ‘We’re going to should recast.’”
My Two Dads was created by Michael Jacobs, who also created and produced Boy Meets World, the ABC coming-of-age series that ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000.
After detailing his abrupt exit from My Two Dads, Green said the ousting left him concerned about one particular thing on the time. “I used to be so young, I used to be like, ‘OK, I still receives a commission for today, right?’ That’s all I actually cared about at that time,” he recalled.
Because the “Pod Meets World” hosts began to take a position whether or not the one who signed off on Green’s exit was Jacobs, 70, Fishel, 44, offered Green some words of support. “If there’s one gift I can provide you with, I’d identical to so that you can know, it wasn’t you,” she told her guest, who admitted that it “felt like me” when the dismissal went down.
“I’m not saying you didn’t feel prefer it was you,” Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World, responded. “You were definitely told it was you. But I do exactly want you to know. [Jacobs] threatened to fireside me after my first day and I used to be already replacing someone who had been fired.”
After Fishel’s reassurance, Green admitted that it was “good to know now” and detailed that Jacobs was the one who approached him the day he was fired.
“It was very specific,” Green began. “He got here out and we were sitting in a restaurant, doing a scene sitting at a table, and he kept giving me these line readings of exactly what he wanted and I couldn’t do it exactly that way, and that was it.”
Green then joked, “It’s affected me for a very long time. I can’t wait to inform my therapist.”