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What It Was Like to Interview Shannen Doherty for Us Weekly Cover Story
Former staffer Mara Reinstein interviewed the late Shannen Doherty for an Us Weekly cover shoot in 2008 and details the experience in a personal essay
For Beverly Hills, 90210 super-fans like myself, the story marked a momentous occasion: Fourteen years after she filmed her last episode of the seminal 1990s teen drama, she had agreed to reprise her Brenda Walsh character for The CW reboot, 90210. She also dished on her roles in Heathers(“I’m really proud I did that”) and Mallrats(“We’d throw food and skateboard in the halls.”) She squealed when I held up a screen shot from the 1985 movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun and then marveled at Sarah Jessica Parker’ s real-life dance skills back in the day. The image forever seared into my brain: Doherty draping a sympathetic older sister-like arm around my shoulder and saying softly, “You can ask the rest of your questions now.” FWIW, she denied that she ever showed up past her call time on the set.
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