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After nearly 20 years, Brian Austin Green returns to his old zip code in the new BH90210. It premieres Aug. 7 at 9 p.m. ET on Fox. Green, who played David Silver for 10 years, tells AARP why he never expected to return there, and where he's at in life today.
What's the 2019 BH90210 show about?
We — playing the actors from Beverly Hills, 90210 — go to a 30-year reunion, and we decide to do a reboot of the show. So BH90210 is a show within a show within a show. It's like Curb your Enthusiasm, with real Seinfeld creator Larry David, but that's not his house or his office or his wife. That's been embellished. He's playing a heightened version of himself. We're all heightened versions of our real selves, so it's our characters doing a reboot of the show. It's like those Russian nesting dolls: “Oh look, there's another.” And you go, “There can't be another one.” And then you open it up and there's another doll.
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Does the cast still feel bonded?
You have all the history with the people, but you have a wife and kids now, so you have more in common. It only strengthens the connection.
Why isn't it filmed in Beverly Hills?
At first I was, like, “You can't shoot BH90210 in Vancouver!” I was all cocky. But then I realized we shot 90210 for 10 years in Van Nuys — zip code 91403. They shot CSI:NY on the L.A. Paramount lot. That's the magic of Hollywood. They can make any place seem like any place.
Was it like summer camp, as Ian Ziering [BH90210 's Steve Sanders] claims?
We all complain about being in Vancouver. But the reality is that we wouldn't have the connection that we have now doing the show in L.A. Because at the end of the day, we would just go home to our families. We are forced, in a really enjoyable way, to have dinner with each other and go on walks.
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