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Trina McGee has revealed that Boy Meets World showrunner Michael Jacobs once asked her to dial down her “black meter”.
The now 53-year-old actor was one of the only Black cast members on the hit 1990s Disney sitcom, where she portrayed Angela Moore, the longtime girlfriend of Rider Strong’s Shawn Hunter.
Before joining the family sitcom in season two, McGee appeared in various sitcoms featuring Black casts, including A Different World, Martin, and Family Matters.
Speaking on an episode of Boy Meets World co-stars Strong, Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence) and Will Friedle’s (Eric Matthews) podcast, Pod Meets World, McGee spoke about her experience as a Black actor working with “almost an exclusively white crew” on a show with the “whitest white cast”.
“Coming from Black sitcoms, I always had to have like a ‘Black meter’,” she said. “My Black meter was probably down to a two. I remember...
The now 53-year-old actor was one of the only Black cast members on the hit 1990s Disney sitcom, where she portrayed Angela Moore, the longtime girlfriend of Rider Strong’s Shawn Hunter.
Before joining the family sitcom in season two, McGee appeared in various sitcoms featuring Black casts, including A Different World, Martin, and Family Matters.
Speaking on an episode of Boy Meets World co-stars Strong, Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence) and Will Friedle’s (Eric Matthews) podcast, Pod Meets World, McGee spoke about her experience as a Black actor working with “almost an exclusively white crew” on a show with the “whitest white cast”.
“Coming from Black sitcoms, I always had to have like a ‘Black meter’,” she said. “My Black meter was probably down to a two. I remember...
- 9/19/2022
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
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