Brian Austin Green Opens Up About The Moment Cast of “90210 ”Realized They Were Famous
- - Brian Austin Green Opens Up About The Moment Cast of “90210 ”Realized They Were Famous
Virginia ChamleeJanuary 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
0
mikel roberts/Sygma via Getty
Beverly Hills: 90210 cast -
Brian Austin Green is sharing the moment he knew Beverly Hills 90210 had become a phenomenon
In a podcast interview, he shares that the show initially wasn't successful — but summer episodes gave it a new audience
One particular trip to Disneyland showed him and his cast mates just how popular the show had become
Brian Austin Green is opening up about the moment he knew Beverly Hills 90210 had blown up — and how everything changed for the cast members in a matter of weeks.
Speaking on the Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum podcast, 52-year-old Green said the show initially didn't seem like it would be that successful — until episodes began airing in the summer.
"And then all of a sudden, the summer episodes. They started, they came up with this brilliant idea of doing these summer episodes. So when all the other shows went into reruns, we had new original shows. So when kids were out of school, they had something to watch that was brand new," Green said, adding: "Everything changed within like a week and a half, two weeks."
— sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Ron Davis/Getty
Brian Austin Green in 1992
One day, while at a gas station, Green saw a car full of three girls and one parent — and they immediately knew who he was.
"All of them were like, 'Oh my god, are you on that show?' And I was like, 'Which show? Like, what do you, what do you mean?' And they were like, 'Oh, the the Beverly Hills one.' I was like, 'Oh, yeah, I am.' They were like, 'We love that show.' And they left. And I remember thinking that was crazy, because I've never been in a gas station and had people know who I was that way."
But it wasn't until the cast made an appearance later that year at Disneyland's Grad Night that they fully realized the extent of their fame.
"That was the moment when I like really knew this show is something big," Green said, explaining that he and the other cast members were backstage while Wilson Phillips was performing.
"We were on the Tomorrowland Terrace, the stage that comes up out of the ground ... Wilson Phillips was performing. Another Bad Creation was performing. So we were down in the bowels of the stage.... Wilson Phillips were up performing 'Hold On' and all their hits," he explained.
He continued: "And you could hear the crowd up above screaming. So I assumed, 'Oh, they're doing another song. Like they're doing an encore.' ... we had this stupid idea because we were kids of like, oh, 'We'll hide on the stage. So when it comes up, nobody will be on it. It'll be empty.' So we all like hid behind these things, these like foam blocks and s--- that they had. And the stage came up and then we all kind of popped out and the crowd went f------ bonkers."
"Thousands of kid all and it was like, it was one of those situations where the moderator would ask you a question. As soon as you would start answering, they'd be screaming and you were like, 'I didn't even say anything yet' Like, is it was like the Beatles always talked about they stopped touring and doing shows because they couldn't hear themselves singing and performing anymore," he added.
At mall appearances thereafter, he said, there would be "thousands" of fans in attendance.
"This was the time following, like, New Kids On the Block. So they were on the cover of every magazine, you always saw on the news, like, girls screaming and, you know, knocking over chain link fences and them running to their tour buses and you saw like complete pandemonium. And then all of a sudden we were inside that world," he said. "And it was like, we would do a mall appearances and there would be like tens of thousands of people in the mall and they would have to sneak us out in like laundry carts and weird s---."
Green also recounted how, during an appearance in Spain, he and costar Ian Ziering has to be ushered off their plane secretly because there were "15,000 people in the airport."
"We've been sleeping for fourteen hours, so we're like doing our hair in the bathroom and, know, getting ready. And all of a sudden, all these police come on the plane. Like, oh my god, what's going on?" he explained. "They usher us into this like back wood-paneled room and the room is packed with security and police and they're all speaking Spanish, so I have no idea what's going on. But you could tell that the mood was very like, there was a lot of dread in the air. ... Then I noticed a door at the opposite end of the room opened and there were two people that looked a lot like Ian and I that were ushered out the door."
He added: "And then all of a sudden this door in front of us flies open and they bring us out. And we later found out that they had two doubles like lookalikes, to send one way to get the crowd to shift a little bit, so then we could come out at this side and hopefully sneak through. There were so many people and it was so tightly packed that at one point Ian was like, 'Dude, check this out.' And I looked and he'd lift up his feet and it was so tightly packed, he was just like held in and moving with the crowd and like, you didn't even have to walk. Just floating in the air."
"No success I've ever had in my life compares to that," he said, adding: "It was lightning in a bottle."
on People
Source: “AOL Entertainment”
