Where Adam Scott Stands With Rider Strong After ‘Boy Meets World’ Drama

Adam Scott gave an update on where he stands with Rider Strong after the two actors publicly addressed an incident from the set of Boy Meets World.

During a recent appearance on the “Awardist” podcast, Scott, 52, was asked if he got closure with Strong. “No, we need to work it out,” Scott said before clarifyingthat he isn’t at odds with Strong.

“No, absolutely. I mean, Rider Strong, who the awkward interaction was with, didn’t even remember it,” Scott continued. “And I really, truly had been carrying it around for, it was like 30 years, because it was like 1994, ’95. It’s crazy. I feel like we addressed it. I think it’s been squashed.”

Boy Meets World, which ran from 1993 to 2000, followed Cory (Ben Savage) and his friends Shawn (Strong) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel) from middle school through their college years. Strong, Fishel and Will Friedle (who played Cory’s brother, Eric) have been recording a rewatch podcast since 2022, with Scott looking back on his four-episode arc as Griff Hawkins during a January 2023 episode.

“I don’t know if you remember this, Rider. Literally, this has been tugging at me for 29 years,” Scott shared at the time. “It was the season finale of season 2. The scene ends. Everyone just erupts and starts cheering.”

Scott recalled turning to Strong on set and saying, “‘Hey, congratulations buddy!’ And I give you a high five and I go in and hug you, and as I do that, you push me off and you give me this look like, ‘Wait a second. Who the [f***] are you?’ And then you run away.”

Strong was taken aback by Scott’s story. “Are you serious? Why would I do that?” he asked before subsequently apologizing for the interaction.

While reflecting on his conversation with Strong, Scott mentioned on the “Awardist” podcast that “for so long and still, I get nervous” around fellow actors and peers in the industry.

“I think the main advantage of people who grow up in show business, whatever, nepo babies is that you grow up around show business,” Scott said last month. “There’s nothing particularly special or nerve-racking about it.”

He concluded: “That’s really what I had to overcome. It took me 20 years to overcome. It’s just being so freaked out being on a movie set or a TV set, because I was so excited about it, that I couldn’t kind of calm down and just relax and not worry about all that other, all the accoutrements around you.”