Adam Scott squashes 'Boy Meets World' feud with Rider Strong once and for all
Adam Scott is burying the hatchet (again), decades after an awkward encounter on the set of "Boy Meets World."
The "Parks and Rec" actor, 52, guest-starred on the teen drama in 1995, playing bully Griff Hawkins. Years later, he revealed on the rewatch podcast "Pod Meets World," that an awkward encounter with series star Rider Strong had haunted him for years.
When the Season 2 finale wrapped, and everyone began cheering, Scott had gone in for a hug only to be given the cold shoulder by Strong, the actor revealed in a 2023 podcast episode. Strong, one of the hosts of the podcast, reacted in shock, saying he didn't even remember the moment.
"Are you serious?" he asked. "Why would I do that?!" The two eventually smoothed things over, with Scott expressing relief that it wasn't a grudge his former costar was holding, and Strong apologizing for the confusion.
Now, the "Severance" star is confirming once again that the one-sided feud is "squashed."
"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. It's crazy," he said during a recent appearance on Entertainment Weekly's “Awardist” Podcast.
"I feel like we addressed it," he added. "I think it's been squashed."
Now a full-grown, Emmy-nominated star, Scott also revealed that it's taken decades in the industry to shake off the same nervousness around interactions on set.
"That's really what I had to overcome," he said during the July 24 podcast. "It took me 20 years to overcome. 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 kind of calm down and just relax and not worry about all that other, all the accoutrements around you."