Gabrielle Carteris on Beverly Hills 90210: ‘Our commentary has to be different’
Gabrielle Carteris reveals her condition for character Andrea Zuckerman when signing on to the Beverly Hills 90201 reboot.
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Gabrielle Carteris had one main condition when she signed on to the Beverly Hills 90201 reboot.
The 58-year-old insisted her character — Andrea Zuckerman — experiments with her sexuality.
“When I took this opportunity and said yes to doing it, I wanted to do it because it is fun but I actually think with storytelling we have a chance to also shift perceptions,” Carteris, who has two adult children with stockbroker husband Charles Isaacs.
“I didn't want to just be an old nerd. The complexity of life, the idea that we are always transforming and changing … At this time in my life, it is like another phase where, particularly for women, that we are in a place where our kids have grown up and they’re realising that they love their husbands but they are more like a best friend or a brother. They are looking at this last or next stage of their life and what they want to explore and who they want to be sharing their lives with. We are not cookie cutters.”
Carteris, along with original cast members including Tori Spelling Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering, are part of BH 90201 that premiered on Channel 10 last week and again screens tonight at 8.30pm.
Created by Aaron Spelling, the original ran for 10 seasons from 1990 to 2000 and was a global hit still broadcast in some countries today.
“When we started 90210, one of the things that was so appealing about this show initially was that we weren’t pretending that everybody was good and nobody makes mistakes,” she said. “It was the human part where people can see themselves in the character. Now, 30 years later since we started that show, our commentary has to be different.”
Originally published as Gabrielle Carteris on Beverly Hills 90210: ‘Our commentary has to be different’