“Boy Meets World” star Rider Sturdy recollects how he ‘misplaced it’ throughout a rehearsal: ‘I used to be depressing’ 

Halfway by means of season 6 of Boy Meets World, Rider Sturdy recollects feeling uninterested in performing out dramatic storylines for his character Shawn Hunter.

Within the newest episode of the rewatch podcast Pod Meets World, hosted by Sturdy, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle, Sturdy shared that he "misplaced it" throughout rehearsals for the episode "Getting Hitched."

The episode follows "We'll Have a Good Time Then," a very heavy one the place Shawn (Sturdy) and his half-brother Jack (Matthew Lawrence) lose their father Chet (Blake Clark). "Getting Hitched" additional explores the aftermath of this loss and Sturdy needed to faucet into his character's grief.

"I used to be depressing this week," he stated. "I’ve a definite reminiscence of breaking down this week."

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Together with the fallout from Shawn's parental loss, "Getting Hitched" additionally contains a lighter B-plot that features Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Fishel) competing with Eric (Friedle) and Rachel (Maitland Ward) in The Fiancée Recreation. Eric provides audiences a little bit of comedian reduction — together with a foolish bit the place he misspells the phrase "penguin."

"I believe episodes like this, the factor I bear in mind essentially the most in regards to the humorous both B or A narrative, whichever it was, when the opposite story was actually dramatic, often the solid that was within the shaggy dog story was going nuts that week, making one another chortle," Friedle stated.

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Sturdy remembered feeling pissed off as a result of he felt like he wasn't attending to do as many enjoyable storylines as his castmates.

"I used to be like, 'Why are they throwing drama at me?'" Sturdy stated. "And now taking a look at it, that is on the heels of an episode the place they killed my father and actually put loads of stress on us as actors, you understand, stress on Blake and Matt and me. And so I believe what I used to be actually reacting to was not an issue with the best way this scene was written or no matter, however simply feeling all this stress to all of the sudden should do all this drama."

Friedle stated he felt the alternative of Sturdy throughout filming, believing that he was at all times the "goofball" whereas he thought Sturdy was "gonna go off and win an Emmy."

In hindsight, the costars agreed that that they had a robust mixture of dramatic and comedic storylines all through the present.

Hearken to the complete recap on Pod Meets World under.

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