{"id":655761,"date":"2026-11-09T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/655761\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:54:12","slug":"danielle-fishel-on-girl-meets-world-pay-being-disliked-for-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/655761\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Fishel on ‘Girl Meets World’ Pay, Being Disliked for Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDanielle Fishel<\/a> was a little different when she returned to TV on \u201cGirl Meets World<\/a>\u201d 14 years after \u201cBoy Meets World<\/a>\u201d wrapped \u2014 and not everyone was happy about it.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an exclsuive excerpt from \u201cBook Meets World: The Definitive Inside Story of the Hit Sitcom Boy Meets World<\/a>,\u201d Fishel details her time on the Disney Channel spinoff, including a personal rule she put in place and being disliked on set, with some referring to her as \u201ccrazy\u201d and \u201cdifficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBook Meets World,\u201d written Fishel, Rider Strong, Will Friedle and Variety\u2018s Emily Longeretta, is available now<\/a> for pre-order and on stands Nov. 10.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u201cGirl Meets World\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a9Disney Channel\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tRead the excerpt below:<\/p>\n

\n\tFishel was the only one of the three who was a series regular, appearing in all seventy-two episodes, alongside Savage. The pair entered the show as a partnership, guaranteed the same salary as part of a \u201cfavored-nations\u201d contract.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was very, very much looking forward to doing Girl Meets World, and to having a partnership with Ben, where we were two adults on a kids\u2019 show who could be examples of professionalism, showing that you can grow up and be normal in the industry. I wanted to be an advocate,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut when they reconnected, he very much had the same energy he did as a teenager \u2014 \u201cAnd there are pros to that,\u201d Fishel notes \u2014 but she had changed. \u201cWays that I had matured may have made me boring, but they definitely also made me more professional,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen she was a teenager on Boy Meets World, many of the cast playfully and innocently tackled each other. But when she returned to Girl Meets World at thirty-two, things were different.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThings like that would happen on Girl Meets World, and I was now a married woman,\u201d she says. \u201cI then started creating boundaries. And those boundaries apparently made me \u2018difficult.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe knew she was disliked. \u201cThey were uncomfortable around me. I knew they rolled their eyes at me when I would raise my hand with a note. I knew they were dismissive of me, but I didn\u2019t know what they were saying behind my back,\u201d she says. Then, during season 2, she was told that Jacobs was calling her \u201ccrazy\u201d to others on set.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney actually had a rule that employees were not supposed to hug each other on set \u2014 a policy that seemed understandable in any workplace, and spoke to the changes Fishel had made in her own life. She knew of numerous instances where the touchy nature of young actors had escalated and become problematic. So after working in non-industry positions for years and then returning to set, Fishel realized that this new experience didn\u2019t need to involve touching every day. So she politely asked that her coworkers not hug her.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeople respected it. But you would have thought I said, \u2018I don\u2019t want anyone to look me in the eyes anymore,\u2019\u201d she says. Some assumed her husband was jealous, which was not the case. After that, it became a very exhausting environment for Fishel, knowing that adults were gossiping about and judging her. She often pushed back on storylines she didn\u2019t feel were appropriate for the Disney Channel audience, urging Jacobs to do better and reminding him that this was his legacy. And sometimes, it actually worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danielle Fishel was a little different when she returned to TV on \u201cGirl Meets World\u201d 14 years after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[130264,27420,156,76324,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-655761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-boy-meets-world","tag-danielle-fishel","tag-entertainment","tag-girl-meets-world","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}