Carol Potter from the hit Nineties collection Beverly Hills, 90210 has a idea about why she by no means had a one-on-one scene along with her son on the present performed by actor Jason Priestley. She lately recalled that the one scene she had alone with Priestley occurred solely after she was written off of the present, which she thought was unusual. However she has a idea as to why she was by no means alone in a scene with Priestley till after she had left the collection.
Jason Priestley and Carol Potter didn’t have a solo scene till late within the collection
Potter thinks the actual fact she was by no means alone in a scene with Priestley was weird. “Even even though I had scenes with the group, I never had a one-on-one scene with my son until I came back as a guest star in season 7,” she stated on the Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef podcast. “Now I find that bizarre.”
“You want to know what my theory is?” she stated. “I have not checked this out with any of the writers. So my own theory. I mean most of the writers were a lot of the writers were men. And I think, you know, Jason was number one on the call sheet. He was the guy, he was the organizer. He was the center around which this group formed. And I think A, they didn’t want to deal with their own issues with their own mothers when they were teenage boys and B, they didn’t want to put their lead guy into authority, under the authority of a woman.”
Carol Potter remembers her scene with Jason Priestley on ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’
Potter admitted that she doesn’t assume writers did this consciously. “It could be that that sort of thing was operating at a very sort of subconscious level,” she admitted. “I’m sure they weren’t thinking that way.”
She described the one scene she had with Priestley. “Season 7 when I come home and [on-screen husband] Jim and I are on the outs and maybe going to get divorced,” she recalled. “And he and I had a beautiful, lovely long scene together. And that was the first time we’d had a one-on-one scene.”
Why did writers wait till ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Season 7 for this scene?
Potter went deep along with her idea on why the writers prevented this scene till later within the collection. “The writers didn’t want to engage with a teenage boy in his mother because it triggers their own experiences as teenage boys with their mothers,” she stated. “And there’s an authority battle. We reside in a patriarchal tradition.
“So young men want to be in charge, especially as teenagers when they’re trying to prove themselves so hard,” she continued. “But in the home, the mother has more authority than the teenage boy, excuse me, very much, right. That was uncomfortable for them both to put Jason in that position and to relive it themselves. That’s, that’s what I think was going on.” She added that the collection confirmed many mother-daughter scenes and even father-daughter storylines. However there was a severe absence of mother-son moments.