Mark-Paul Gosselaar Wanted To Quit Hollywood After Fox Canceled ‘Pitch’ https://t.co/cnSThVS3NC
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During a Saved by the Bell panel at ’90s Con Tampa Sunday, Mark-Paul Gosselaar recalled how he felt when Fox axed the Kylie Bunbury-starring drama that revolved around the first woman to play for the majors.
“I wanted to quit the industry after that ended,” Gosselaar, who played catcher Mike Lawson. “That’s one of those, you feel like in your lifetime you’re not going to be handed opportunities like that, so for that to pass in the fashion that it did it was sort of a gut punch. That’s a role though, that I don’t make light of it, but I had to go therapy with my wife.”
He admits, however, that he’d forget to leave the role on set. “I’d come in through that front door and like my wife said in therapy sessions, ‘That’s not the guy I married,’”
Pitch earned some of the 2016-17 season’s strongest reviews when it debuted. Sadly, it never drew a large enough viewership and only lasted one season.
