8 minutes ago, Khan said:

You'd think that losing Luke Perry AND Shannen Doherty would make them all take greater stock of their lives and realize that life is just too damn short to let petty bullshit get in the way of things, but whatever, lol.

You'd think so, but they all are ridiculous in a way where you'd have to have a flowchart who likes / doesn't like the other. Jennie and Tiffani were close friends at one point, but then got into a one-sided fight due to Tiffani not just taking Jennie's side in her divorce since she and Jennie's ex-husband were friends from before. I wonder if Jason is still pissed at Tori for selling his wedding invitation for like $5 bucks in a yard sale? They did the short-lived 90210 show, so maybe they're on decent terms now. Ian seems nice enough, but in a very fake Hollyweird way. Gabrielle Carteris always seemed to have a low-key chip on her shoulder, but also played it all off in an "I'm the ADULT in the room" kind of way.

I can't help to feel that Shannen's cancer and passing away from it kind of made all their dynamics worse because she was always the convenient scape goat, even though I'm not defending her unprofessional behavior at the time.

And yeah, Thomas Calabro allegedly took himself quite serious as an "act-thor" and the cast just seemed to deal with it by low-key making fun of his pretensions lol. I think Heather not having a huge ego and always being willing to take the backseat really helped though, unlike someone like Joan Collins who came onto Dynasty with the mindset of being the star and pulling ranks on the show. During Melrose's more balanced seasons Heather / Amanda would often take the backseat and in some episodes she just dropped by and did a quippy remark.

One thing Thomas Calabro admitted during the podcast is that he's not one to be sentimental and look back on things, though he did regret not doing the 2012 cover for Entertainment Weekly that had the whole cast plus Marcia and Jack (minus Vanessa).

27 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:

One thing Thomas Calabro admitted during the podcast is that he's not one to be sentimental and look back on things, though he did regret not doing the 2012 cover for Entertainment Weekly that had the whole cast plus Marcia and Jack (minus Vanessa).

TBH, I got the impression that he was really hurt with how the reboot did and just chose to ignore the EW thing that was about two years later. I know he's been said to work as a yoga instructor and I'd assume other non-acting jobs, so I wonder if he felt like it would be a key to another long-lasting role and then it didn't work out.

I felt like his comment was always a gracious glaze over.