Bonnie Morgan, ‘Boy Meets World”s Original Topanga, Claims She Was Fired Because She Was Not Pretty Enough
01.07.2023 - 02:53
/ etcanada.com
Before fans came to know Danielle Fishel as Topanga on “Boy Meets World”, there was Bonnie Morgan.
As viewers know today, Fishel portrayed Topanga Lawrence through all seven seasons of the hit ABC sitcom, but that was not originally the case. Instead, Morgan, a fellow child actress, had landed the role, but was swiftly fired. Three decades later, Morgan recalled the sequence of events to Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong on the Monday episode of their joint podcast, “Pod Meets World”, and, notably, the alleged reason she was really let go from the role.
Morgan remembered having multiple callbacks for the job before being cast and noticed the script would continue to change, seemingly to reflect their conversations with her. After officially landing the role at around 12 years old, the actress described her first day on set as the “weirdest day of my life.” She claimed the adults were short with her and that they put her in a frumpy costume despite the fact that she had brought in clothes for the character as options. She also accused Ben Savage, who famously played Cory Matthews for the entire series, of making faces to try to break her and mocking her lines back to her.
As for David Trainer, who directed most of the episodes in the first and second seasons, Morgan claimed he took issue with how she said a line and wanted her to say it sweeter. At one point, she claimed, he got really close to her and demanded she wish him a happy birthday in the sweet tone he was insisting on.
“It was the strangest day on set I had ever had,” she described. “I went home and knew nothing.”
While she was expecting to return to work the following Monday after that Friday rehearsal, the phone rang at home the next morning and Morgan