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“I got irritated probably earlier on in my career when I was trying to, uh, to break a stereotype that I was like with that. I was just like, wait, I’m not, I’m not that guy. Like I’m, I’m this guy. Like my hair was not even that color or I, you know, I didn’t come from a well-to-do family. I came from a very blue collar, immigrant family. Like I was completely different than that character. And yet I was labeled as, as that. So, while I was trying to get jobs and wasn’t working, anybody who would come up to me to be like, Zack, or, you know, I was trying to get away from that. It probably took a good decade before I embraced it.”
–Mark-Paul Gosselaar opening up about the internal friction he felt with playing Zack Morris on Saved By The Bell and being considered the same kind of person IRL during the early years of his career, via the I Choose Me with Jennie Garth podcast
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