Before Brian Austin Green earned fame as David Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210was fired from the popular sitcom.
During an interview on the Monday, March 16, episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast, hosted by ex. Boy Meets World stars Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel again Is FridleGreen, 52, revealed that he was let go from NBC My two fathers which ran from 1987 to 1990.
“I was in the same group My two fathers and it was the only time I ever got fired,” Green said on the podcast. Staci Keananwho was on that show, and there was someone else and I was really new to sitcoms and I didn’t completely understand the timing of it and … they were like, ‘We’re going to have to postpone.'”
My two fathers created by Michael Jacobswho created and produced Boy Meets WorldABC’s upcoming series that ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000.
After explaining about his sudden exit My two fathersGreen said the dismissal left him worried about one thing at the time. “I was so young, I said, ‘Okay, I’m still getting paid this day, right?’ That’s what I really cared about at the time,” he recalled.
As the “Pod Meets World” hosts began to speculate that the person who signed Green’s exit was Jacobs, 70, Fishel, 44, offered Green some words of support. “If there’s one gift I could give you, I’d just like to know, it wouldn’t be you,” he told his guest, who admitted it “was like me” when the eviction came down.
“I’m not saying you didn’t feel like it was you,” said Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence Boy Meets Worldanswered. “You have definitely been told that it is you, but I want you to know. [Jacobs] he threatened to fire me after my first day and I was already taking the place of the person who was fired.”
After confirming with Fishel, Green admitted that it was “good to know now” and elaborated that Jacobs was the person who reached out to him the day he was fired.
“It was very clear,” Green began. “He went out and we were sitting in a restaurant, we were doing a scene sitting at the table, he kept giving me these readings of exactly what he wanted and I couldn’t do it that way, that’s how it was.”
Green then joked, “It took me a long time. I can’t wait to tell my therapist.”
