How Brad Pitt Inspired Shannen Doherty When She Was Filming90210Reboot

Mar. 15, 2025

From left: Brad Pitt and Shannen Doherty.Photo:Gregg DeGuire/Getty; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

Gregg DeGuire/Getty; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

During a conversation with herCharmedcostar Tony Denison onThe House of Halliwellpodcast, which was released after Doherty’s death, the late actress admitted she was “always scared to use props” while filming the fantasy drama series.

“I was so hyper-aware of that,” she said on the Aug. 6 episode. “I know that you were as well, and it wasn’t until I did the reboot of90210where I was, like, screw it. And I ate in every single scene because I love Brad Pitt in a couple of his movies where he was always eating. And so I was like, I’m gonna do that too to take myself out of my head.”

Shannen Doherty on “BH90210”.FOX via Getty

FOX via Getty

Doherty ended up liking using props “a lot” on the reboot of90210, titledBH90210, but noted, “ I think onCharmedit was so hard because we had to match everything perfectly.”

Ironically, Doherty’s90210costarJason Priestleywas roommates with Pitt.

During an appearance onLive with Kelly and Markin January, Priestley, 54, recalled that he and Pittlived together “for a brief period of time"in an arrangement he described as three people “living in a two-bedroom apartment in a really crappy part of L.A.”

L-R: Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Tori Spelling, Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Brian Austin Green and Gabrielle Carteris.FOX Image Collection via Getty

FOX Image Collection via Getty

“Brad wasn’t as bad as my other roommate, who was an absolute disaster,” Priestley said, when asked what Pitt was like as a roommate. “But Brad was okay. We used to play this game, all of us, to see who could go the longest without showering. I think about it now and I’m like, ‘Dude, how disgusting. What were you thinking?’”

The actor said Pitt frequently won those competitions at the time. “Always Brad,” he shared. “I don’t think he does that anymore, but back then, he could go a long time without showering.”

From left: Jason Priestley and Brad Pitt.Arnold Jerocki/WireImage; MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty

Arnold Jerocki/WireImage; MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty

Priestley previously shared details of his time living with Pitt in his 2014 bookJason Priestley: A Memoir.

On top of sharing tales of his shower-free competitions with Pitt,The Hollywood Reporternoted at the time that Priestley wrote in the book that he and Pitt first met when their third roommate let Pitt sleep in Priestley’s bed while Priestley was away.

“We lived on ramen noodles and generic beer — the kind that came in white cans labeled BEER — and Marlboro Light cigarettes,” Priestley wrote in his memoir, perTHR. He and Pitt’s time living together came before Pitt broke out in 1991’sThelma and Louiseand Priestley began his years-long role on90210. “We were all broke.”

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Priestley toldHuffPostin 2014 that he and Pitt “sort of lost touch with each other” as they found success in Hollywood throughout the 1990s.

source: people.com