Adam Scott on feud with Boy Meets Worlds Rider…
Mr. Feeny could be proud.
Adam Scott says he and Rider Strong have cleared the air following an awkward second on the set of “Boy Meets World.”
In 2023, the “Parks and Recreation” alum appeared on Strong’s “Pod Meets World” podcast to talk about his transient function as bully Griff Hawkins on the beloved ’90s sitcom.
Adam Scott as Griff Hawkins in “Boy Meets World.” Disney
Adam Scott during his look on Rider Strong’s “Pod Meets World” podcast. podmeetsworldshow/Instagram
Scott opened up about lingering emotions from a 30-year-old uncomfortable second the 2 shared during the manufacturing of the sequence’ Season 2 finale.
During the July 24 episode of Entertainment Weekly’s “The Awardist” podcast, when requested in hindsight if confronting the awkward exchange really introduced him closure, Scott joked, “No, we need to work it out.”
He went on to make clear the alternative: “Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Rider Strong, who the awkward interaction was with, didn’t even remember it. And I really, truly had been carrying it around for… it was like 30 years, because it was like 1994, ’95.”
Rider Strong as Shawn Hunter and Ben Savage as Cory Matthews in “Boy Meets World.” Everett Collection / Everett Collection
“I feel like we addressed it,” Scott confirmed. “I think it’s been squashed.”
While on “Pod Meets World” two years in the past, the “Step Brothers” actor introduced up the on-set incident with Strong.
“I don’t know if you remember this, Rider… Literally, this has been tugging at me for 29 years. It was the season finale of Season 2,” he recalled. “The scene ends. Everyone just erupts and starts cheering.”
Adam Scott as Griff Hawkins in “Boy Meets World.” Disney
Scott then described turning toward Strong, giving him a high 5, and saying “Hey, congratulations, buddy!”
“I go in to hug you, and as I do that, you push me off and you give me this look like, ‘Wait a second. Who the f— are you?’ And then, you run away,” he continued.
Strong, for his half, was shocked, asking, “Are you serious? Why would I do that?” He also admitted he didn’t bear in mind the second, which Scott discovered reassuring.
Adam Scott on the “Pod Meets World” podcast. podmeetsworldshow/Instagram
“I’m so glad you don’t remember that because, to some extent, that means it wasn’t a traumatic experience,” Scott concluded.
In retrospect, the “Party Down” star mentioned on “The Awardist,” “for so long, and still, I just get nervous” around his friends.
“I think the main advantage of people who grow up in show business or whatever, nepo babies… is that you grow up around show business, so there’s nothing particularly special or nerve-racking about it,” he mentioned.
Adam Scott as Mark Scout in Apple TV+’s “Severance.” Apple TV+.
“That’s really what I had to overcome. It took me 20 years to overcome,” Scott defined. “It’s just being so freaked out being on a movie set or a TV set, because I was so excited about it that I couldn’t calm down and just relax and not worry about all that other, all the accoutrements around you.”
He concluded that he was constantly nervous and embarrassed, and, very similar to the “Boy Meets World” incident, “a lot of it was probably just in [his] head.”
Scott at present stars as Mark Scout in Apple TV+’s “Severance,” a function that earned him a 2025 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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