Jason Priestley: 'My kids are watching Beverly Hills to make fun of me'

It is elegance itself.

His polo shirt, which shows off his biceps, matches his ice-blue eyes, and he begins the conversation with “

”, in French, if you please!

Special guest of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, of which he was the president of the jury in 2016, Jason Priestley, in his early fifties, knows how to put everyone at ease.

When he bursts out laughing, it's as if he was summoning Brandon Walsh, his whole face then brings us back to the good times of the

series , the soap opera phenomenon that revealed him to the whole world.

He is now an actor, director and producer.

Interview.

TV MAGAZINE.

- Does it bother you that people do and will always refer to Brandon Walsh about you?

Absolutely not, it's a huge part of my career and the series was an international phenomenon that marked the history of TV.

Few people can boast of having had such an experience.

It was a

 for me and for the television industry.

Do you ever watch

My children watch episodes from time to time, we watch them together because I feel that they especially want to make fun of me or the series!

Anyway, it's very dated as a series for young people, isn't it?

Which

Brian Austin Green (David Silver) and Ian Ziering (Steve Sanders).

These are my friends.

Why do you think some actors in

I can only speak for myself, but that's a very good question.

As far as I'm concerned, after the end of

, I immediately said to myself that I shouldn't rest on my laurels, that I should take pleasure in my notoriety.

I always tried to have other roles, especially those that would take me out of my comfort zone to continue to grow as an actor.

reboot

was very difficult to bring about, it was risky.

We knew it would be complicated (...) At least we tried!

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Jason Priestley

You once said that Richard Fitzpatrick, the anti-hero of your series

Richard was such a fun character to play, he had no limits socially and I could play anything thanks to him.

And the whole team of authors challenged themselves to make it go even further in its behavior.

The whole experience filming on this series was amazing, the whole team was awesome and we were filming in the middle of nowhere in Nova Scotia Canada in a small town.

It made me feel like I was in a three-month theater summer internship where we were just acting and being creative.

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How did you experience the fact that the

Oh, did you like it?

You are one of the few to have appreciated it, thank you!

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was absolutely "meta" (

Beverly Hills

but, in fact, the concept was very difficult to bring about, it was risky.

We knew it would be complicated.

We had spent a lot of time to write the pilot episode together and I have the feeling that when we went into production, nobody had an exact vision of the rest of the episodes, of what we were going towards.

The channel thought “

 “, the studios had another idea, the actors too and the authors too!

There were suddenly too many versions of the series on the table.

It's a shame because it was absolutely interesting.

At least we tried.

It was fun.

Some fans understood what we were doing and liked it, and some just wanted a classic old school reboot with the Peach Pit, etc.

Do you think there will be another

We, I don't think so!

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