By the time Boy Meets World reached its seventh season, Rider Strong was already thinking about life beyond the ABC sitcom.
The actor, who played Shawn Hunter throughout the series’ 1993–2000 run, says he was in college and ready to leave when contract talks for the final season began.
The sticking point, he recalls, was a mix-up over his contract. Strong revisits the experience in Book Meets World: The Definitive Inside Story of Hit Sitcom Boy Meets World, released Tuesday, November 10. “I was already in college, and I didn’t want to do the show anymore,” he says in the book, per Entertainment Weekly.
Strong thought he was already committed to a seventh season after the show’s sixth. Creator Michael Jacobs called him in to discuss continuing, and Strong realized they were talking about adding season seven—not an eighth. Executives reviewed the contract with him, but he says he left the meeting confused about whether he could have declined the offer.
Strong says he also entered the conversation without his manager or agent. He had recently turned 18 and was beginning to handle those professional relationships himself. In retrospect, he says he wishes someone had told him that if he didn’t want to continue, he could say no. He describes the outcome as having gotten “completely screwed.”
But Ben Savage had a different experience at the negotiating table after getting into Stanford. “He stuck to his guns, and it worked out,” Strong says in the book, noting that Savage received a “huge pay increase.” Strong, meanwhile, says he walked into his own meeting alone and “got completely screwed.” Savage’s pay was close to that of William Daniels, the series’ established star who played Mr. Feeny.
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Strong and Will Friedle, who played Eric Matthews, negotiated with the studio together so they would receive equal pay. But Strong says the cast did not coordinate as a group. He believes they might have had more leverage if they had presented a united front instead of negotiating separately.
The contract confusion added to Strong’s growing desire to move on. He says that, in an ideal scenario, he would have completed the season he was sure he owed the show, then left before its final year.
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