In this week’s issue of PEOPLE,Brian Austin Green, who will be reprising his role as David Silver on the hotly-anticipatedBH90210reboot, opens up about the cast reunion and how they are coping with the loss of friend and former costarLuke Perry, who died of a stroke in March.
While Perry wasn’t signed on to reprise his role as Dylan McKay, Green says he remained hopeful that might change.
“It’s a hard situation,” Green, 45, tells PEOPLE. “I knew that going into it that Luke couldn’t do the reboot because he was shootingRiverdale. But my honest hope was he would make time to come do at least three episodes. He was awesome.”
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Green adds that Perry was even involved in some early discussions about the reboot’s storyline.
“We talked to him on the phone because we still wanted his input,” he says. “He was just that kind of guy. Knowing that that’s not a possibility is really hard.”
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On working with the cast again after 19 years (Beverly Hills, 90210ran for 10 seasons from 1990 to 2000), Green say it’s “surreal.”
“The first time we all got back together, we were in a story meeting and I stopped, like, ‘Wait a second: We’re all like sitting in the same room right now? This is crazy,’ ” he says.
source: people.com
