Jason Priestley, cash in Beverly Hills: "My kids watch the show for fun"

52-year-old Jason Priestley will remain for an entire generation as the eternal Brandon Walsh of the Beverly Hills franchise that launched in TF1 in the ’90s. A role that stuck with him for over thirty years but didn’t bother the latter: It’s a big part of my career, and the show was an international phenomenon that made television history. Few people can boast of having had such an experience. gave information to our colleagues from Figaro magazine on the occasion of the last Monte-Carlo film festival.

The American actress even admits that she watches episodes of the show that reveals herself with her children from time to time: We watch them together because I have a good feeling that they want to make fun of me or the show in particular! Anyway, isn’t it too old as a drama for teenagers? he guessed. Same with the revival that aired in 2019, if the actor was tough on the original series. In this new series, which is neither a sequel nor a reboot of Beverly Hills, the historical actors played a parody version of themselves and tried to persuade the chains to restart the series as they rose to fame in the 90s.

“ Beverly Hills: The BH90210 was definitely “meta” but actually bringing the concept was very difficult, it was risky. We knew it would be complicated “He emphasized the actor before analyzing the failure of the series:” The channel said, “Serial, that’s the idea! “The studios had another idea, actors and writers alike! Too many versions of the series appeared on the table in an instant. It’s a pity because it was definitely interesting. At least we tried. It was fun. Some fans understood and liked what we did and some wanted a classic “old school” reboot with Peach Pit and so on. finished the actor.

Thierry-Claude