“This is some ground we have not covered.'
, Trina McGee, who played Angela Moore and Shawn Hunter’s love interest for the final three seasons, revealed why she was missing from the“This is some ground we have not covered. I was told, in kind of a weird, off-handed way by a very important person, that you guys all went to [showrunner] Michael Jacobs, and you said, ‘We don’t want her in the last episode. She’s somehow taking our light.’ [That] was the gist of it,” McGee explained on the podcast.
Her former costars were absolutely shocked and apologized that she had to go through that — especially since none of the costars ever expressed those feelings that the showrunner had relayed to McGee. “Can we say for the record, Trina, that never happened,” Friedle, who played Cory Matthews’ goofy older brother Eric Matthews, said. “That’s not competitiveness, that’s sociopathy. This pisses me off. This is next level.
This isn’t the only thing her white co-stars did not have to think about. McGee also reflected on an op-ed “she” wrote fordefending the show’s decision not to uplift the fact that Angela and Shawn were in one of the few interracial relationships on primetime television. Turns out it was written by her husband and publicist. "I was very confused at the time about whether to talk about it or not — I had two realms of thinking: my job and mankind," McGee explained.
"So right before I walked on for my part, I walked by and went, 'Love your syrup,' and walked on to the set, thinking 'Boom, zing! Just got her for her hat,' " Friedle explained. After his scene, McGee confronted Friedle about the comment, which left him "shaken." Friedle credits that moment with changing his life.