One in every of Brian Austin Inexperienced's favourite Beverly Hills, 90210 storylines doesn't even contain his personal character.

The late Matthew Perry's position on a season 1 episode of 90210 "was one in every of my favourite storylines on the present," Inexperienced instructed Saturday's crowd at a 90s Con panel that includes his fellow 90210 castmates Jennie Garth, Gabrielle Carteris, Ian Ziering, Jason Priestley, and Tori Spelling.

"Matthew and Jason had such nice [chemistry] — that introduced my consideration to psychological well being in a method I hadn't ever considered earlier than," stated Inexperienced, who performed David Silver throughout all 10 seasons of the era-defining teen cleaning soap.

"J., I discovered from you," Inexperienced stated on to Priestley, "and Matthew, God bless you."

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On the primary season episode "April is the Cruelest Month," Priestley's character, Brandon Walsh, seeks to put in writing a profile of Roger Azarian (Perry), the golden baby of West Beverly Hills Excessive's senior class, for the college newspaper. As a method of introducing the character, Ian Ziering's Steve Sanders says that Azarian will "in all probability get a Rhodes scholarship, marry Miss America, and run for president."

After Priestley is granted uncommon entry to the favored senior's non-public life, nonetheless, Brandon learns every thing that glitters isn't essentially gold. Azarian's wealthy father, who "owns half of Orange County," in response to Ziering's Steve, has positioned punishingly excessive expectations atop his son's shoulders. On the identical time, his fixed calling in of favors to help his son robs him of any alternative to really obtain something on his personal benefit, a potent cocktail that leads Roger to concern thinly-veiled warnings that he's depressed sufficient to do one thing harmful.

Brandon is ready to intervene when Roger threatens to kill himself, after discovering out he didn't get into the college his father determined needs to be his best choice. The episode ends with Roger checking right into a psychiatric facility and urging Brandon to put in writing the story as deliberate. Perry publicly struggled with substance abuse and psychological sickness for many years, and "April is the Cruelest Month" turns into much more poignant in gentle of his 2023 demise from the acute results of ketamine.

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"It was, what, 1990 or 1991 — wasn't that what everybody was doing: carrying polo shirts and taking pictures their dads?" Perry joked in a 2012 interview with the Los Angeles Times, by which he revisited his time on 90210. "That was a few of my best performing."

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Perry's character wouldn't return to Beverly Hills, as a result of the actor booked just a little present referred to as Friends,which took over his life — and the world — in 1994.

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