How Brad Pitt Inspired Shannen Doherty When She Was Filming 90210 Reboot

Before her untimely death, Shannen Doherty revealed that she was inspired by watching Brad Pitt movies.

During the conversation with her Enchanted costar Tony Denison on Halliwell House podcast, which was released after Doherty’s death, the late actress admitted that she was “always afraid to use props” while filming the fantasy drama series.

Doherty recalled avoiding props after her script supervisors told her to “make sure you mimic or copy exactly what it was, when you were eating, when you were doing it, so that all the different angles that you match, and it’s easier for editor.”

“I was very aware of that,” she said on the Aug. 6 episode. “I know you were too, and it wasn’t until I restarted 90210 where was i, like, screw it. And I ate in every single scene because I love Brad Pitt in several of his movies where he was always eating. And so I thought, I’m going to do it too to get out of my head.”

Shannen Doherty on “BH90210”.

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Doherty ended up loving the “full” use of props on the restart 90210under the title BH90210but he remarked: “I think of Enchanted it was so difficult because we had to match everything perfectly.”

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Ironically, Doherty’s 90210 costar Jason Priestley was Pitt’s roommate.

During the performance at Living with Kelly and Mark in January, Priestley, 54, recalled that he and Pitt lived together “for a short time” in an arrangement he described as three people “living in a two-bedroom apartment in a really crappy part of LA.”

L-R: Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Tori Spelling, Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Brian Austin Green and Gabrielle Carteris.

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“Brad wasn’t as bad as my other roommate, who was an absolute disaster,” Priestley said when asked what Pitt was like as a roommate. “But Brad was fine. We used to play this game, all of us, to see who could go the longest without showering. Now I think about it and I’m like, ‘Dude, how gross. What were you thinking?’ ”

The actor said that Pitt often won these competitions at the time. “Always Brad,” he said. “I don’t think he does that anymore, but back then he could go a long time without showering.”

From left: Jason Priestley and Brad Pitt.

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Priestley previously shared details of his time with Pitt in his 2014 book Jason Priestley: A Memoir.

On top of sharing stories about her no-shower contests with Pitt, The Hollywood Reporter he noted at the time that Priestley wrote in the book that he and Pitt first met when their third roommate let Pitt sleep in Priestley’s bed while Priestley was away.

“We lived on ramen noodles and generic beer – the kind that came in white cans marked BEER – and Marlboro Light cigarettes,” Priestley wrote in his memoirs, according to THR. He and Pitt lived together before Pitt broke out in 1991 Thelma and Louise and Priestley began his long-standing role at 90210. “We were all broke.”

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Priestley told HuffPost in 2014 that he and Pitt “kind of lost touch with each other” as they found success in Hollywood in the 1990s.

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