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“The last time we physically had a playdate before the pandemic, I had made dinner for all of them and sweet Courtney was very pregnant,” theBeverly Hills, 90210alumna told PEOPLE exclusively. “And she actually went into labor that night.”
“So I claim that my meal is actually the one that actually got her to go into labor,” Thiessen joked.
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Now, as Thiessen noted, getting together with herSBTBcastmates has been “difficult” due to the ongoingCOVID-19 pandemic, but she is hopeful that they will soon be able to reunite for more time together in the near future.
Sharing that she has a “very open relationship via text” with her long-time friends, Thiessen shared that their kids have hung out as well. “Mario’s had playdates with his kids over here,” she said.
And as for the parents? Thiessen said her husband, Brady Smith, has a friendly relationship with her costar,Mark Paul Gosselaar. “They probably have that man love going on,” the actress quipped.
Getting to relive her role of Kelly Kapowski on the show, Thiessen said it was different this time around.
“It’s how many years later, so it wasn’t like I had to fall back into a teenage role,” she said. “… It was fun to work with Mark Paul again [and] it was fun to do the show.”
Crediting show creator Tracy Wakefield with doing an “amazing job” with the reboot series, Thiessen said, “she really took the nostalgia of the old just enough and then also really developed these really fun new kid characters.”
“But [the show] also has a lot of heart to it, like as funny and witty as it is,” the actress added. “Because it’s a very smart show … and sometimes I think you don’t always find that in comedies.”
source: people.com
