Will Friedle Reacts to 'Uncomfortable'Boy Meets WorldMakeout Scene with Then-Girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt: 'Oh My God'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Friedle in ‘Boy Meets World’ in 1998.Photo:DISNEY

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Will Friedleis calling his “intense” makeout session with then-girlfriendJennifer Love Hewittin a fan-favorite episode ofBoy Meets World“uncomfortable” to watch now.

Friedle and fellowBoy Meets WorldstarsDanielle FishelandRider Stronghave been taking an intensive look back at the 1998 episode “And Then There Was Shawn.” Over the past week, they’ve devoting a total of four episodes of their rewatch podcastPod Meets Worldto dissectingwhat Fishel called “maybe the best episode inBoy Meets Worldhistory.”

A send-up of and homage to teen slasher films of the ’90s likeScreamandI Know What You Did Last Summer, “And Then There Was Shawn” featured several of the show’s main characters being killed off in — spoiler alert — what turns out to be an extended dream sequence. But despite all the murder and mayhem, the episode’s freakiest moment may have been Friedle’s character’s bizarrely aggressive makeout sesh with guest star Hewitt, according to thePod Meets Worldhosts.

“I don’t remember it going that far,” Friedle said during the trio’s recent recap.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Friedle in ‘Boy Meets World’ in 1998.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

“It was seriously, like, ‘Wow, that’s uncomfortable,’ ” Friedle, now 48, said of rewatching the scene.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Friedle on the set of ‘Boy Meets World’ in 1998.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

“That’s the only part of this episode I’d be like, ‘Guys, really don’t do it,’ ” Strong, 44, said of having Friedle’s character take such liberties with someone he’d only just met. “Like, it’s really not cool. And I don’t know why we all thought it was cool.”

“To assume that our audience would know that you guys were dating?” Strong added. “You couldn’t do that.”

“It was super intense,” Friedle admitted. “And I’ve had people even say to me, like, ‘Oh, when I was a kid, I didn’t realize you guys were together. So, it was just like, what the hell is going on?’ ”

On the Oct. 4 episode ofPod Meets World, director Jeff McCracken joined the cast to discuss “And Then There Was Shawn” and Hewitt’s guest appearance.

“Whose idea was the sexual assault?” Friedle jokingly asked McCracken.

“Will was instrumental in that,” McCracken said, adding that Hewitt “couldn’t have been nicer” and “fit right in” with the rest of theBoy Meets Worldcast.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Friedle in 1997.Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty

Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty

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“She knew everybody and, you know, she knew how close I was to everybody,” Friedle recalled. “And she was game, and she was, you know, a great actress and would always throw herself into a project. So, it was fun.”

Still, he reiterated that none of the hosts remembered how intense the makeout scene was. “We watched it again and it was like, ‘Oh my god. That’s jarring,’ ” Friedle said.

“How did none of us say, ‘Should we do this?’ ” Fishel, 43, agreed. “Yeesh!”

source: people.com