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Series alumsElizabeth Berkley,Mario LopezandMark-Paul Gosselaarreunited Saturday at90s Conin Hartford, Connecticut, to look back on their time on the beloved series. While together, the trio shared some interesting revelations tied to the show — including what Berkley, 48, would have worn if she dressed up for a ’90s contest.
“Oh, Jessie Spano,” she said, referencing her own character. “It’s funny. During the pandemic, we were shooting something where we were all at home and we had to do like a throwback look of our characters.”
She continued, “I ordered Jessie stuff from Amazon because we didn’t have a wardrobe person and I was like, ‘Oh, would this be what it would be if it was Halloween?’ It’s an easy costume.”
Berkley also revealed she was also up for costarTiffani Thiessen’s eventual role as Kelly Kapowski, but the casting team “had a hard time deciding between us.”
“I played Jesse, so I think that was for me, the right fit,” she said. “I was also grateful they worked it all out.”
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Lopez and Gosselaar, both 49, also reminisced on the good ole days, especially their hair choices from back then.
“They should’ve canceled my hair back in the day,” Lopez joked.
“I always find it fascinating that people ask me like, ‘That wasn’t your real hair?’ From season to season it changed,” Gosselaar then said, joking that it was “not a color you can put on a driver’s license.”
The panel brought up sentimental feelings for the cast as well. “When you’re young, you don’t really have time to process things and you take a lot of things for granted,” said Lopez.
But even with the legacy the show has, Gosselaar didn’t think the series would initially survive. “We thought we were getting canceled after every season,” he said.
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“Because it was a Saturday morning show, we didn’t have a normal run,” he continued. “A normal run would be … 22 [episodes]. So that’s a full season. We would go back to our lives and then you go to seven, then you’re like ‘Are we doing more now?’ We go back to school, and it will be called back.”
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Much of the cast has remained close since the original series concluded in 1993. Lopez, Gosselaar, Berkley and Thiessen reunited for dinner in 2019 alongside some of their spouses.
“This is what30+ years of friendshiplooks like,” Gosselaar captioned the group shot.
Even though there wasstrain amongst the cast with Diamond, the stars allshared emotional tributeswhenhe died in February 2021of cancer.
“Dustin, you will be missed my man,” Lopez wrote on Instagram. “The fragility of this life is something never to be taken for granted. Prayers for your family will continue on.”
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