Danielle Fishel Once Gave “Boy Meets World ”Fans Strands of Her Freshly Cut Hair

Not only did Danielle Fishel actually trim her ain hairsbreadth successful an section of Boy Meets World — but she gave immoderate of nan strands to assemblage members afterward.

On nan May 29 section of rewatch podcast Pod Meets World, Fishel and co-hosts Rider Strong and Will Friedle spoke astir nan play 4 section of nan show titled "Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow." In nan episode, Fishel's characteristic Topanga cuts her hairsbreadth successful an effort to beryllium to Corey (played by Ben Savage) that looks aren't important.

"I really did trim my hair. It was not a wig. It was decidedly my hair," Fishel, 44, said connected nan podcast.

She continued: "I had really wanted to trim my hair. I had only had 1 haircut successful my full life and it was erstwhile I was 2. I had hairsbreadth down to my butt from nan clip I was 2, and my hairsbreadth astatine nan extremity had small ringlet curls. My mom astatine 1 constituent decided I needed a trim and they conscionable trim disconnected those ringlet curls, and past I ne'er had different haircut until that clip I trim my hairsbreadth connected TV."

Saying she was "ready to get free of it," Fishel explained really she asked nan show's co-creator and executive shaper Michael Jacobs astir mostly getting a haircut — and he initially resisted.

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She continued: "It was gonna beryllium my first big haircut. I asked and Michael said astatine first, 'No, perfectly not. No, no, no.' And I continued, I persisted. And past he said, 'Okay, astatine slightest fto maine constitute an section astir it.' "

When nan clip yet came to movie nan section earlier a unrecorded workplace audience, Fishel entered into what she called pinch "negotiations" pinch Jacobs complete really short she could really go.

"There was a batch of accent astir whether aliases not I was gonna listen," she said, "because he knew I had each nan powerfulness pinch nan scissors successful my hands."

"I was specified a norm follower," she said, adding, "We decidedly took it a small safe."

Asked astir nan workplace audience's reaction, Fishel said she heard "big gasps."

"Also, you'll beryllium amazed to know: We gave retired pieces of my hairsbreadth to nan assemblage after," Fishel said, adding that nan formed often handed retired "signed scripts" aliases nan literal shirts disconnected their backmost pursuing an episode's filming.

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In an earlier section of nan podcast, Fishel recounted really nan existent situation of nan section was successful getting nan haircut connected camera successful conscionable 1 take. Fishel went connected to picture nan very elaborate process of getting nan segment conscionable right, which progressive faking nan chop respective times, pinch head Jeff McCracken yelling “Stop!” astatine her conscionable earlier nan fateful snip.

“But then, nan measurement I was gonna cognize if I could trim it, you weren't gonna outcry stop,” she recalled. “And past erstwhile I'm expected to, it's conscionable quiet, and I'm like, ‘For real? For real? For real? Because I'm gonna do it now.’ ”