After spending nine years of his life playing the lead character Brandon, Jason Priestly had also gotten a taste of producing and directing TV as time went on. Despite these accolades, his last day on the show actually left him with a sour feeling.
When his final scene was done, he gave farewell hugs to members of the cast and crew, packed up all his stuff, and got in his car. There was no party, no big speeches, or anything else. He said he felt like he had wasted nine years of his life – but he could have stayed longer.
Did Tori Spelling Get Shannen Doherty Fired?
We already know about the wild things Shannen got up to before being fired, but rumors still fly as to what the real reason was. Tori Spelling seems to think it was her fault. Spelling was the main pipeline to her father, the show's main producer, about what Doherty was getting up to behind the scenes.
Doherty has certainly admitted to being the show's biggest back stage brat. Still, Spelling has always felt that the things she told her father contributed to the greater pressure and scrutiny on Doherty, which eventually led to her firing. That guilt still ways on her until this very day.
Luke Perry Could Have Played Steve
Luke Perry became one of the teen heartthrobs of the nineties. He played bad boy Dylan, the kind of guy you can not take home to mom because she might steal him. However, Perry originally auditioned for rich brat Steve Sanders, believe it or not.
The casting directors definitely got it right, though, when they decided to have Perry play Dylan, and let Ian Ziering have the part of Sanders. Both characters changed over the course of ten years of "Beverly Hills 90210," and both got the chance to show their sensitive sides too. They went on true character arcs.
Just Peachy
The Peach Pit was one of the most well known settings from the show — a diner and favorite hangout of all the characters. According to executive producer Charles Rosin, the setting was based on a real diner called The Apple Pan in West Los Angeles. A lot of "Beverly Hills 90210" took place in that diner.
While The Peach Pit is pure fiction, The Apple Pan is still around. As musician Tori Amos says, it even serves the best burgers in the world! What fan of the show didn't want to spend an afternoon with all the characters chowing down on some delicious food?
Lying by Omission
Other than Gabrielle Carteris who played Andrea, there is another famous face who was much older than the character he played. Ian Ziering chose not to tell producers his real age when he auditioned for the part of sixteen-year-old Steve Sanders. He was twenty-eight, but that question went unasked.
He later said that during the audition for "Beverly Hills 90210," he was thinking: “If they're going to buy it, I'm going to sell it!” He sold it well enough, and the producers, as well as audiences all around the world, bought it. The rest was history, and played that character so convincingly.