Danielle Fishel iconically chopped off her hair in a Boy Meets World episode — and a few viewers members acquired to take a few of her locks dwelling as a memento.
“You’ll be shocked to know we gave out items of my hair,” Fishel, 44, mentioned on a latest episode of “Pod Meets World” that featured “Workplace Women” hosts Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey.
Fishel recalled the way it was regular for the Boy Meets World forged and crew handy out objects like “signed scripts” and “props” to its reside studio viewers. Whereas taping the episode “Hair Right this moment, Goon Tomorrow,” some fortunate followers took dwelling a few of Fishel’s hair, which she really lower herself.
“I actually did lower my hair. It was not a wig,” she mentioned. “It was positively my hair.”
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Pictures Danielle Fishel might have many fond reminiscences of her time on Boy Meets World, however returning for the present’s spinoff, Woman Meets World, was a completely totally different — and “tough” — expertise. After portraying the position of Topanga for seven seasons on the ABC ‘90s hit, Fishel, 43, returned for the Disney […]
Within the episode, which aired in 1996, Fishel’s character Topanga impulsively chops off her hair to show to Cory (Ben Savage) that appears aren’t vital. Nonetheless, Topanga’s grand gesture backfires after she finally ends up scuffling with insecurities herself.
Whereas Topanga’s resolution to chop off her hair appeared impulsive, the plan to offer Fishel a brand new look was all the time within the works. Fishel beforehand sought out permission from the present to chop her hair, which had grown very lengthy.
“I actually needed to chop my hair. I had solely had one haircut in my complete life, and it was once I was 2,” she recalled. “I had hair all the way down to my butt from the time I used to be 2, and my hair on the finish had little ring lit curls. My mother at one level determined I wanted a trim, and so they simply lower off these curls after which I by no means had one other haircut till that point.”
Fishel added that she was “able to do away with it.” Nonetheless, there was pushback at first.
“I requested and Kaitlin Simpson Michael [Jacobs] mentioned, at first, ‘No, completely not, no,’ and I persevered,” she mentioned. “After which he mentioned, ‘OK, not less than let me write an episode about it.’”
Fishel added she was “a bit of bummed” at first as a result of there was an extended wait time between her preliminary request and when she was lastly capable of lower her locks.
“Right here I’m asking in like June, and we don’t return to manufacturing till August. I’ve to attend, and who is aware of when within the season it’ll be,” she defined. “However then we get fairly early on within the season, we get this haircutting episode.”
Along with having to attend months for her haircut, Fishel needed to negotiate with Jacobs about how quick she may go.
“Proper earlier than I lower, Michael, our government producer, mentioned to me, ‘Present me the place, present me the place you’re planning on chopping,’ and I used to be like, ‘Right here,’” Fishel recalled, claiming that Jacobs needed a “longer” possibility. “It was an precise negotiation, and there was a variety of stress about whether or not or not I used to be going to pay attention as a result of he knew I had all the facility with the scissors in my arms.”