“Boy Meets World” star Trina McGee said she was asked to “turn off” the “Black Meter” while filming the ABC sitcom.
“Coming from black sitcoms, I always had to have a black meter… my black meter was probably below 2. I remember when I was doing the ‘Angela Ashes’ episode. [of ‘Boy Meets World’]Somehow my black meter had slipped and I was almost at 9,” McGee told former castmates Ryder Strong, Will Friedl and Danielle Fischel on a recent episode.Pod Meets World” Titled “Trina McGee Meets World.”
McGee said that “Boy Meets World” producer Michael Jacobs approached her with an acting note: “Hey, Trina, turn Telma Hopkins down about eight notches,” he recalled telling her. “I knew exactly what he was talking about and I did.”
McGee, who previously opened up About confronting racism, telling his colleagues that “there are so many things you guys are so lucky you don’t have to think about.”
Fischel has had his own issues with Jacob, which he Told humiliated her on the sets and threatened to fire her when she was 12 years old.
McGee reflected on an opinion piece under her byline in which she defended the show’s choice not to acknowledge the interracial relationship between Sean and Angela, noting that her publicist and husband had actually written the piece and She did not agree with this.
“If I had to get over it and take my real stance, my past vision and all, I would have written a contrasting article,” she said, explaining that she didn’t want to make jokes about differences or admit it. Will push more. creative ways. “Maybe you come to my house and the food is different or it is different,” McGee said.
“I think most people in the comments on social media say they’re cool not to mention it,” she said, “but I say they’re mainly white people. Interracial couples want that about it.” Let me talk.”
The hosts draw parallels to “Shit’s Creek”, where not fully discussing David’s bisexual identity is a positive move for representation, as well as “General Hospital”, where McGee claims that an interracial couple Angela and Sean, given that the character’s name is Trina.
When “Boy Meets World” shot its series finale, McGee was not involved. She explained that she was told that her cast told Jacobs that they didn’t want her in the last episode. “It was really going to hurt me for a long time,” she lamented. However, his aides said his claim was not true.