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Tiffani Thiessen
Tiffany Thiessen reunited with her Saved by the Bell cast mates, sans Screech, for a People Magazine article. That’s the closest anyone’s going to get to a real Saved by the Bell reunion, but Thiessen appreciates the interest.
Tiffani Thiessen Saved by the Bell
“I mean, [there’s been] a ton,” she said. “Between that and the Funny or Die it's been crazy which is great. That's wonderful.”
We’ll always think of her as Kelly Kapowski, but Thiessen never got typecast by the role. “I think it helped that I did 90210 right after, but then it's like doing two huge hit shows made it harder to move from there. So I've tried to really pick my things somewhat specific to a certain degree and really go for the roles and the projects that I love. But yeah, there have been times when it's been hard. I think it's hard no matter what, for anyone.”
Thiessen continued to fuel the Bell fire when she did a skit on Funny or Die. “I know you guys have heard all the news about the Fallon thing and I had to answer in some way. A lot of people didn't know that People magazine was coming out and that was the reunion that all of us had agreed upon and we didn't want to do much more. Mark-Paul [Gosselaar] went onto Fallon and it was brilliant. I was so proud of him. But he wasn't really going back to do the reunion. It was part of his character and part of his skit that he was doing that show, doing that for a reason which was great. But now it was left on my shoulders where it looked like I was the only one saying no which really wasn't the case, but I wanted to make light of it and make fun of it. So we came up with this idea and the Funny or Die people were amazing. I've never had so much fun on a day's shoot before in my life.”
Funny or Die sought Thiessen out but she warmed up to their plans quickly. “They came to me with a few ideas and that one just really spoke to me. The other ones were really funny, too, but that one was the one that really kind of spoke to me. The thing about it was that there was as a little bit of press saying, ‘Oh, I wasn't going to go on Fallon because I'm not working.’ And I was like, ‘That's so not true. That's so not true.’ I wanted to make fun of it by saying that I had so much to do, but that the things were really occupying were kind of stupid.”
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