Tori Spelling on Beverly Hills, 90210 revival BH90210: We wanted to "cause noise and be groundbreaking just like our original show"

Entertainment Weekly

Spelling and Jennie Garth say the revival was a chance to bring their close friendship back to the TV screen. "We wanted to do something different, and we wanted to do something that would cause noise and be groundbreaking just like our original show was back in the ‘90s," says Spelling. "And that’s when together we came up with this version." Garth adds: "The premise of this show, it’s about the characters behind the characters. It’s inside the lives of people that lived in those shoes for those 10 years, and it’s about them coming back together. It’s really hard to do that show justice in a reboot, so we didn’t want to even try. We wanted to come at it with a totally different, fresh perspective, while still honoring the show and paying homage to all the characters that the fans are going to really love." Spelling says her character was "actually I think the hardest character to write for everyone, because there is so much public fodder, tabloid fodder about my life. I think definitely everyone was wanting to poke fun at themselves and poke fun at the image that other people have of them."

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