Call Mr. Feeny.
Boy Meets World star Rider Strong recently shared that, as a teenager, he was embarrassed about portraying Cory’s (Ben SavageShawn Hunter is Shawn Hunter’s ultra-cool friend on ABC’s beloved ABC series. In fact, he would actively avoid it at all costs when they weren’t filming.
When the show began in 1993, the 13-year-old actor said, “I didn’t want be associated with it, which is insane to me now.” Insider. In my twenties, I had never watched the series. Every time we had to leave the show, my instinct was to run away and hide in Los Angeles.
The actor, 42, explained that, in his younger years, the idea of signing a seven-year contract to the show—which ran from 1993 to 2000—felt like “death” and that he “didn’t want to be there from the get-go.”
Strong said that his greatest regret is not having fully accepted his experience on the set of The Simpsons, nearly two decades later.