Lance Bass And Danielle Fishel Are Turning Their Real-Life ’90s Romance Into A Movie
30.08.2022 - 01:09
/ etcanada.com
Lance Bass and Danielle Fishel‘s love story romance is getting the rom-com treatment! On a recent episode of Fishel’s “Pod Meets World” podcast, the “Boy Meets World” actress had her ex as a guest on the show and they recalled dating during her senior year of high school.
The two first met when *NSYNC came on “Boy Meets World” for a live special in 1999. After spending the day together, Fishel found out that Bass had a crush on her. He got Justin Timberlake to get Fishel’s phone number for him, and the two started dating while he was on tour and she was filming the ABC sitcom. Eventually, Bass went to prom with Fishel.
“I thought I was going to marry Lance. I had envisioned our future,” Fishel recalled. “I held on for hope for way too long that we were going to get back together and get married and have a family. … It turns out I’m not Lance’s type.”
Bass, who publicly came out as gay in 2006, remembered the prom as a stepping stone for him to live in his truth.
“I think so many people can relate to that story; so many people in the LGBT community, their prom night was the night they were like, ‘Oh, wait a minute. This can’t happen anymore,’” he said. “This was the catalyst for me that made me start to accept myself, which took a long time after that, but that was definitely the first little straw that broke.”
Now, 43-year-old Bass and 41-year-old Fishel want to make their love story into a movie, with Lauren Lapkus (“Crashing”, “Orange Is the New Black”) and Marie Holland penning the script. “Lance and I are actually working on a movie about our love story and about our prom experience,” she explained. “I dated Lance for about a year while I was on “Boy Meets World”. It was my senior year and Lance came with me to my