Trina McGee has revealed that Boy Meets World showrunner Michael Jacobs once asked her to dial down her “black meter”.
Speaking on an episode of Boy Meets World co-stars Strong, Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence) and Will Friedle’s (Eric Matthews) podcast, Pod Meets World, McGee spoke about her experience as a Black actor working with “almost an exclusively white crew” on a show with the “whitest white cast”.
Before joining the family sitcom in season two, McGee appeared in various sitcoms featuring Black casts, including A Different World, Martin, and Family Matters.
“Coming from Black sitcoms, I always had to have like a ‘Black meter’,” she said.