Danielle Fishel Once Gave Boy Meets World Fans Strands of Her Hair

Not solely did Danielle Fishel truly reduce her personal hair in an episode of Boy Meets World — however she gave a few of the strands to viewers members afterward.

On the May 29 episode of rewatch podcast Pod Meets World, Fishel and co-hosts Rider Strong and Will Friedle spoke in regards to the season 4 episode of the present titled “Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow.” In the episode, Fishel’s character Topanga cuts her hair in an effort to show to Corey (performed by Ben Savage) that appears aren’t necessary.

“I actually did reduce my hair. It was not a wig. It was positively my hair,” Fishel, 44, mentioned on the podcast.

She continued: “I had actually needed to chop my hair. I had solely had one haircut in my total life and it was after I was 2. I had hair right down to my butt from the time I used to be 2, and my hair on the finish had little ringlet curls. My mother at one level determined I wanted a trim they usually simply reduce off these ringlet curls, after which I by no means had one other haircut till that point I reduce my hair on TV.”

Saying she was “able to do away with it,” Fishel defined how she requested the present’s co-creator and govt producer Michael Jacobs about typically getting a haircut — and he initially resisted.

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She continued: “It was gonna be my first grownup haircut. I requested and Michael mentioned at first, ‘No, completely not. No, no, no.’ And I continued, I continued. And then he mentioned, ‘Okay, at the least let me write an episode about it.’ ”

When the time lastly got here to movie the episode earlier than a dwell studio viewers, Fishel entered into what she known as with “negotiations” with Jacobs over how quick she might truly go.

“There was loads of stress about whether or not or not I used to be gonna hear,” she mentioned, “as a result of he knew I had all the facility with the scissors in my fingers.”

“I used to be such a rule follower,” she mentioned, including, “We positively took it a little bit protected.”

Asked in regards to the studio viewers’s response, Fishel mentioned she heard “huge gasps.”

“Also, you may be shocked to know: We gave out items of my hair to the viewers after,” Fishel mentioned, including that the forged usually handed out “signed scripts” or the literal shirts off their again following an episode’s filming.

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In an earlier episode of the podcast, Fishel recounted how the true problem of the episode was in getting the haircut on digital camera in only one take. Fishel went on to explain the very detailed technique of getting the scene excellent, which concerned faking the chop a number of occasions, with director Jeff McCracken yelling “Stop!” at her simply earlier than the fateful snip.

“But then, the way I was gonna know if I could cut it, you weren’t gonna yell stop,” she recalled. “And then when I’m supposed to, it’s just quiet, and I’m like, ‘For real? For real? For real? Because I’m gonna do it now.’ ”