Ian Ziering Thought Beverly Hills, 90210’s Steve Would Be ‘In Jail’

Ian Ziering didn’t at all times assume that his Beverly Hills, 90210 character, Steve Sanders, would find yourself with “such an unimaginable arc,” as soon as believing he’d be jail-bound.

“From the primary time we met him, a spoiled wealthy child [who is] conceited and obnoxious, no person favored him till we discovered why he was the best way he was,” Ziering, 60, solely advised Us Weekly at ‘90s Con on Friday, September 13. “Being a product of poor parenting form of provides you a free move a bit of bit. Individuals thought, ‘Oh, bless his coronary heart’ form of factor, and he actually discovered his values and morals from Brandon and the Walsh household.”

Ziering performed Steve on Beverly Hills, 90210 between 1990 and 2000, later reprising the position on Fox’s BH90210 spinoff in 2019.

“We had 296 episodes the place Steve’s arc began down right here and skyrocketed to someplace the place nobody might have anticipated him to land,” Ziering recalled on Friday. “And that’s being a loving, devoted husband and father and profitable businessman. I’d have thought he would find yourself in jail!”

Within the pilot, Steve is seen as a careless, wealthy and spoiled highschool pupil. Additional episodes reveal that he had been adopted by his overly crucial mother and father. When twins Brandon and Brenda Walsh (performed by Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty, respectively) arrive in Los Angeles, Steve lastly receives a way of stability he’d beforehand by no means identified.

The dramatic story strains had been a few of Ziering’s favourite elements about portraying Steve.

“That’s one of many issues that I like about Steve Sanders as a personality,” he gushed to Us. “When individuals ask me should you might select to be any character I’d positively select to be Steve Sanders, as a result of he had such an unimaginable arc.”

Beverly Hills, 90210 is just one of Ziering’s most well-known roles, however the actor nonetheless has hope to star in a sitcom someday.

“[Because of] the truth that sitcoms are a mixture of theater and tv, filming in entrance of a stay viewers,” he defined. “Doing one thing that’s comedic in nature. It nonetheless has eluded me, but when that sort of program does come again, I’d like to do a sitcom.”

Till then, Ziering is targeted on reliving his 90210 glory days on the nostalgic conference in Daytona Seashore, Florida. He’ll sit on a panel later this weekend with former costars Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Inexperienced and Gabrielle Carteris. Doherty had additionally been scheduled to attend, however she died two months earlier on the age of 53 following a prolonged battle with most cancers.

With reporting by Kat Pettibone