Before Brian Austin Green found fame as David Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210, he was fired from a popular 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 was on one episode of My Two Dads and it was the only time that I was ever fired,” Green said on the podcast. “We had been rehearsing, and then 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 somebody else and I was really new to sitcoms and I just didn’t completely understand the timing of it and … they were like, ‘We’re going to have to 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 at the time. “I was so young, I was like, ‘OK, I still get paid for this day, right?’ That’s all I really cared about at that point,” he recalled.
As the “Pod Meets World” hosts began to speculate whether or not the person 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 give you, I would just like for you to 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 like it was you,” Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World, responded. “You were definitely told it was you. But I do just want you to know. [Jacobs] threatened to fire me after my first day and I was 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 person who approached him the day he was fired.
“It was very specific,” Green began. “He came 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 long time. I can’t wait to tell my therapist.”
