easing up in the weeks just becoming easier and easier all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now the test of girl meets world ben savage's danielle fishel known for their iconic roles as topanga laurence and corey matthews on the smacks ninety sitcom boy meets world danielle fishel and ben savage are back again in the spin off of that show that made them famous aptly titled girl meets world danielle and ben joined us down to discuss the reprise a little bare legendary characters and later we'll meet rowan blanchard their on screen daughter who puts the girl in girl in the world and girl meets world premier's on june twenty seventh at nine forty five pm eastern time on disney

channel let me refresh it what was for those of us who were not nine years old at the time it was boy meets world. boy meets world was a sitcom that was formed in ninety three and it was a coming of age story about a young character corey matthews and it was that was me and it was him exploring the world and it was basically him taking on the world and we were seeing it from the eyes of a young thirteen year old boy and. the show started in ninety three and corey met his love interest very early on in the series and it was over with may twelfth as well yeah so this was a young teen romance yeah it was but it was really it was an ensemble cast and it was on for seven years and over the course of the seven years we really just you know form this great bond with each other and things took off how did the show him how it was that on board meets it was on for seven years so it ended in two

thousand so you grew up with it we did i was twelve to nineteen on the show is no thirteen to twenty yeah and he went off because seven years is a long run. i think at you know by the time we hit the seventh season we had kind of really all of our characters had found you know they had they had grown up it was time for the show really just to move on them a young teen show and exactly so it was time for us to move on to become adults and that's what we've been doing over the last fourteen years that we've been off the air and now we have the opportunity to show where we're at now what lives are like is it a lot of you've been doing for fourteen years well i have done a few movies i went to school later in life i went to college at twenty seven graduated at thirty one and that was really very important to me so i kind of just focused on other projects and focused on making myself a better person in my personal life and got married i got married last october yes it would have you been there. it's

a good question i went to stanford immediately after world ended and i think i was really protective of that time because i really. i hadn't been in a normal school environment my whole life so i looked at stanford as sort of my chance to be a normal kid for a while major in political science and stamper was great because just such incredible professors and just everyone there is a champion of something harvard of the west harvard of the west. but like my floor alone it was like every single person you go up to them and say oh what did you accomplish or what it what what theory did you invent or you know across to me was the texas state champion fencer and then there was the national wrestling champion down the hall. i didn't act i really i i wanted to take that time to just sort of grow and be a normal guy doing after stanford i moved back down there les started acting again did a few pilots did some independent movies wrote a lot produced some stuff and. things happened who came up with the idea that cory

and topanga will come back in a show called girl meets world who whose idea was that some of the i would say that the idea was formed collaboratively between some folks at disney channel and our executive producer michael jacobs who originally originally started boy meets world way back in one thousand nine hundred three the idea would be you would be your same go does growing up right basically picking up where we left off in two thousand korean topanga got married and ninety nine so when the show the original show ended we were already married and the season finale showed that we were moving to new york so that my character could pursue law school and so the idea was fourteen years later where are they are they still in new york do they have a family you should i mean should be nine year olds grown up already expected to be a nine year old audience i think we're hoping for both yeah i think this show has mass appeal or we're hoping it does there's it was very popular it was interesting

about the shows that it got more popular once we went off the air it had a great life and cable and. reruns of the internet that it's never been off the air and on your own disney not just on disney and a.b.c. family into its run shelters of all where the show they are but i think for me and i know danielle as well is that some of the most meaningful you know emails and messages in san interactions have been people who come up to us and say you know i grew up with boy meets world and it meant so much to me and i'm so excited because now i have a daughter who's five or six and i can't wait for her to watch girl meets world because now she can kind of grow up with the same memories your daughter on the show who will meet in a little in a while is twelve. can we expect demi cameos from former attachments legendary. absolutely yeah we haven't but yeah we just finished our first season we finished at the end of may we did twenty one episodes and we were all done or all done the first season yeah so we were lucky enough to have writer strong come back who

played sean on the original shelley place shown in the show as well people are going to very excited to see him bill daniels makes an appearance again as mr feeney who was just i know monica and iconic teacher and we also got to see rusty who played alan matthews betsy randall who played any matthews so yeah quitely morris comes back is as. plain mean guess we've got a lot of really great people to come back and if we get to continue on we hope that more will return you get recognised in public you don't look like you look when you were twelve. i think danielle could probably answer that better than i could but i do get recognised a lot. but i think we've been blessed with a very supportive fans and it's usually a positive experience and i think a lot of people just say i grew up watching you on t.v. and i i want to say hi so it's a nice probably get recognised separately but we really get recognised together

what was it like for you being famous. i actually had a a really normal experience in the ninety's there wasn't social media there wasn't any you know not a ton of paparazzi or anything really to deal with and going to regular school was always really important to me so on our hiatus weeks i went back to my regular high school i went to every high school football game i went to every high school damn calabasas i. and you go i want to brentwood. but again we were kind of it was an interesting high school experience because we were kind of in and out you know we don't tutors and said we've got an excellent tutors in the tough when you're young and you have this glamorous life the men still have to go back to the sushi with the regular people i think are the young people who become. problems later i agree i think that that probably might go back to the parents and the family and i think that the people that were surrounding us on boy meets world the producers the teachers our parents our families were they were well aware of that and i think

that they did everything they could to try and keep us as grounded as possible and just keep us having a normal upbringing. he was in real estate in chicago and then my brother got the wonder years so my family moved from chicago to los angeles because in him because a friend and so the family relocated and you know my dad started working out here they were grown. they were you know i think they were you know very sweet midwesterners who got lucky and found themselves in extraordinary circumstances your parents my parents were they never really i had to beg in order to have the opportunity to try to act they didn't want me to do it and so any time i showed any attitude my mom's famous quote was i will rip you out of this business so fast your head will spin because you hate it if you didn't really want it was it was something she let me do because it was something i wanted but it wasn't important

at all to her and so i still had chores i still earned an allowance i had to make my bed every morning i had to help her cook dinner every night i had to take care of the doctor said my dad is a working professional work he's actually the president of a medical company and so did he enjoy you working in i can't say that he necessarily enjoyed it but he doesn't have a problem with that they were always very supportive of the. maybe like she did tonight of course and they're very proud of me but i think there's sometimes there's you know a difference with with parents that really are doing it to letting you do something because they want to support you versus have it they neither one of our parents got any personal fulfillment out of you in our lives and says i have a younger brother chris and does he work in the business she does he works behind the scenes he's a producer on any day and he kind of works on a bunch of different we have a movie i do yeah boiling pot was doing something out it's about racism and it's all based on a true story based on two thousand and eight when president obama was running for

reelection and yet it's a totally different role from a lose lose i play valerie davis. a young a kind of naive white girl who's in a mixed relationship with somebody from a different culture and kind of naive to the racism that surround her and she makes some you know interesting choices it's a movie that will make you ask a lot of questions about yourself and the people around you and and yeah it was examined hopefully sometime next year where submitting to festivals right now was a rivalry between you and fred. i wouldn't i wouldn't say that i think we were always very supportive of each other and. four and a half years. on on a personal level i think we were always at such different stages of our lives that it didn't you know he got his license i was eleven i got my license he was twenty one i was twenty one he was out so. we were always at different stages but i'm a professional level i never felt that i think we're always really genuinely

excited for each other and then just recently directed an episode of girl meets world and it was very important to fred that he was there to support ben and it was it was very sweet to see because we were in the middle of our tape night and fred arrived and didn't want anybody to pay any attention to him he hung back he just wanted to be there to watch mentioned you want to do movies. i think i want to focus on directing i think i want to focus on writing producing directing and staying in the t.v. realm i think that's that's my home and that's where i'm comfortable oh you've done twenty two episodes twenty one and one is it what's it like being back in the swing again. who. join answer well for me personally i absolutely love the work on set and the acting and working with the kids that we work with and being back on set with ben every day that's my favorite part being back in the spotlight is something that still kind of new for me i had with all the social media i had grown very accustomed to my quiet little life in orange county and now

it's not so quiet and i think it's a much more difficult in the harsher world that we grew up in not just from an acting standpoint but from just being a public figure there's cameras that i'm sure you know very well there's cameras everywhere you go snapping pictures of you every time you turn around no privacy right now but it's something that we've grown accustomed to and i think as danielle said we're slowly learning out every girl after the break danielle and ben i'm going to be joined by their own daughter also as the girl girl meets world. to be with. your friend posts a photo from a vacation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry keep. norris. we

post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook you street. join me. in park and find out for kerry interview and much much. only on bombast and. this was in the washington well it's a missile that is being suggested in the latest numbers of the. candidates for the office even current issues are actually back to and doesn't do too much for ad revenue my own tech agriculture giant teeth on

a seventy six year old american farmer east india fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a race america's the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but one might give real alternatives of points to working for the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real causes problems. joining us now is the lovely roland blanchard is the role of right now is the daughter of corey to kind of get the part well i originally auditioned for actually sabrina carpenter's role. and you know i think when i auditioned for my i mean

obviously it's an incredible character but it wasn't a character that i could personally relate to so then michael jacobs who's the creator of the show and boy meets world he had me come in and audition for riley and then i met ben and danielle that was a role that you know i think i instantly identified with and been you know i really i read with him it was very easy. did you ever see you would you know boy meets world i haven't seen every single episode although she was born in two thousand and one yeah fournier the number of the show went off the air but it's still in reruns sell i've seen while garrett runs well you filmed twenty one of the soldiers right now if you enjoyed it it's been a blast and you know i'm coming into it obviously i was a little bit nervous because you know you're coming into these group of people who have already worked together before bending the l. and you know our crew and our writers really made it a really welcoming environment and i think you know as we got more into the season you could see all the kid cast like slowly easing up in the weeks just becoming easier and easier so he was born meets world who is now you are the girl meets

world so you're the corrie no i am with morrie. was that tough to live up to you know we're different characters and you know while he does play my dad it's not like i am living up to corey i'm living up to reilly so i you know it's so well i do share the same characteristics as cory i am it's really you know she's forming a whole new character with the changes in the world since that series i was a board into this and so she media as you know was saying i mean there definitely is a whole social media and you know kind of everything's public. there's that whole aspect you know and i that does really affect middle school or especially i mean their lives we did a particular episode where we did how technology has really affected you know children and that says very powerful but i wouldn't say like riley is one of those kids that's blue to her phone but i think as i do it wrong with saying i think that

a lot of the motivation for making the show was to address the issues and concerns that kids nowadays are going through right boy meets world you know cory matthews grew up in a much more innocent naive world and rowing's character riley is growing up in a much more complicated world it's a lot harder to be a kid nowadays was when mike this is not in the world let's let's watch a clip from girl meets world. oh ah ah. whatever this is do not put me in the middle of the two people that i love equally just getting heavier on. my teacher calling to me keeping him keep i'm really saying. she walked out of my class she's trying to be madea why would you want to be maya she's cool she's so wildside she does what she lives but you're such a good person who cares about dad. do you really think i'm one of those girls who

follows all the rules and never gets into trouble i was open. how did you start in this business i was five years old and it was actually kind of by accident my dad was going in to resign with his commercial agency and they were like well we want to give your kid a child so and you know i think it was something i've always been attracted to just you know performing whether is you know holidays or you know school plays it was always something where i do my dad that is both of my parents are yoga instructors actually but my dad had his share in the acting world so you like working with a kid i love it some people say. i know no animals another you. know i think ben and i both i won't speak for ben but i we've discussed it amongst ourselves many times being able to work with she's the exact same age i was when i started and seeing her and seeing her about to begin journey especially on

a show and with a cast and a crew that i feel very comfortable with that i know are good influences i'm very happy for her and i literally i look forward to coming to work with her every single day you're the teacher i'm the teacher in the dad now in the regional mr feeney was the hard nosed teacher at william daniels are you a hard nosed teacher my i'm not i think william daniels was kind of the epitome of what a teacher should be on meets world that character was just wonderful wise and just just he knew everything he had all the doubters cory as a teacher doesn't have the answers but he's figuring it out and i think he's doing the best that he can and i think that that's something that people our age might myself in danielle's age you know young thirty's thirty ish but they're slowly figuring it out they obviously don't have all the answers but they're doing the best they can since you went through you so are you working well with the young people we are i think i will pat ben and i both on the back and say. that

we are pretty good with working with them i know what it was like to be her age and to feel the amount of pressure and ben certainly knows it even better than i do because he was the boy and i also know that we're not you know we were supposed to be we're making a television show we are supposed to be having a good time and every day of course there are challenges and it's a sits a professional job of course but at the end of the day we just want to have a good time together and we think that that's going to come across on t.v. how do you go to school and work well actually i have been a regular school up until this year where i started filming the series this i mean this program that i'm doing it's it's very academic which i like because i mean academics are. my main goal they come before acting on that we have an incredible set teacher actually he was the scene teacher on boy meets world so i mean he's definitely kind of a been there done that too or is there or done yes and i think we're kind of creatures of habit. so we've done a lot on this new series to make it replicate and be as identical to boy meets

world as possible we could hire the same crew the same a lot of the same people we have to social media questions ok melissa prison via twitter what do you think group guarding her children's teen shows to change since boy meets world and. you know i'm sure i mean i think. there was a very special period of time in the eighty's and ninety's where the family sitcom was the thing to watch since that time i think it's unfortunate but that reality t.v. has kind of taken over and. the more reality t.v. there is the i think the last and last people are interested in watching the whole sun family programming i think now there's been enough time away from it that people are starting to crave it and i hope that with what we're doing there's going to be a huge audience of people who want to watch it. bluebell on twitter as has been your amazing do you see yourself more towards directing in the future that was jeanne thank you. i like the bluebell thank you. while you were directing

you know i think that it's a nice way to work with the actors and it's it's it's interesting i had a really great time doing it and you control fruit i don't know of a. good director well i think some of them but i. i think it's something that i've been around the business since i was six years old and i've seen a lot of things and i picked up a lot of tips from a lot of directors and i think it's something i was excited to try and continue doing because a new muscle as when you've been acting your whole life directing kind of just as is flexing in a muscle that piers and thirty one. favorite moment on the set of boy meets world and do you have any funny stories you can share. you i would say do you have a favorite moment i have plenty of moments it's very hard to you know parse through seven years and pick your favorite but i'll say the most memorable was our final scene on boy meets world the four main cast members they know myself and two others

or in the classroom with william daniels and he looked at us and his final line was i love you all class dismissed and dream try to do good but he said i love you all class dismissed and i remember when they said it was almost like someone was saying you're no longer a kid anymore you know it was like moving on to the next stage your life and i always remember the name of the absolutely some good question was put jobs if you only knew what was your first job some being bred commercial when i was six years old you got a bird commercial i got a series of them and they want to clear hold and shoes i love my dog and i had a memo and they said. i had to hold it and pretend the bread was a dinosaur. and then i would eat it and and then i said the word extinction. about it then i did a metallica marshall and it was for a doll that you pressed a button and her two front teeth came out and my first line was she's getting our first and i stay on that well so they're very pristine. i delivered groceries

well that's good a most embarrassing moment. in life or anywhere i would say for me what growing up on t.v. is not easy when your voice is changing where you're going through puberty at fourteen i just remember i think it was our third or fourth season we wrapped and we came back four months later and my voice was a lot lower and i the seeing all the writers in the producers again then you know it wasn't easy and there was there's only season there were sort of there's a boy's cracks favorite thing about working with been my favorite thing about working with ben is that we've developed a friendship that's lasted now twenty one years and i know no matter what the circumstances are ben always has my back and i know that he knows that i always have his back doing to turn the shows we weren't as close during the time off as we were certainly while we were on the show during the ninety's and as we are now but we kept in touch we never fell out of contact. with her she's very passionate and

she's very dedicated to her job and i know that when she's on said she's giving you a hundred fifty percent all the time ninety's fashion trend that you'd like to see combat oh that i'd like to see come back oh my gosh it really none of them i don't think i liked any of the any of the ninety's fashion trends i had a really horrible feathered bangs i do not want to see those come back. i still don't know what fashion it's. funny it's been encounter. actually my funniest fan encounter was during the ninety's when boy meets world was on and i was walking through universal city walk and a guy kept giving me dirty looks over his shoulder because i was with a male friend and he spun around and said what are you doing here and i was like why don't i don't understand i'm just walking around and he said you just came back in the rain for corey from pittsburgh i saw it to his list to my friend he thought fit what had just happened what had just aired last week on the show was in related

in the usual. again i think it's hard to kind of just pick one but i think literally every episode is a special memory from what's an episode of girl meets world you can't wait for viewers to see i can't wait for viewers to see girl meets one nine hundred sixty one it's one of our kind of a flashback episode where the kids played their great grandparents and i just think it's one of the best performances that the kids put out i'm really excited about it favorite thing about the city of brotherly love philadelphia is where the original boy meets world was set right great she's dick's absolutely in the phillies. do you have an on set nickname. that i know of but they might call me either head behind my back finally dream costar to judge or i'd love to work with julia roberts.

but he say. we'd love to have you me a spot on the shoulder about it when do you just say one. that i've been twenty two movies a lot of tea we'd love to have you love it all comes give me a good figure out a part of we will do it i won't come on my show or something will please figure out what i want bagwell called michael jacobs and we leave it thanks to both thank you for asking out of i think one of them danielle fishel been savage and rowan blanchard joining us and be sure to tune in to the premier of girl meets world june twenty seventh nine forty five eastern on tuesday as always you can find me on twitter with his things i see you next on.

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