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Jason Priestley is paying tribute to his West Beverly classmate.
The Beverly Hills 90210 alum recently reflected on his relationship with the late Luke Perry both on and off-air earlier his March 2019 passing.
"Luke and I evidently were truly bully friends erstwhile we were moving connected the amusement together," Jason said during the March 27 occurrence of David Lascher and Christine Taylor's Hey Dude...The 90s Called podcast. "We were truly bully friends extracurricular of that too."
And during their escaped clip portion filming, Luke—who played Brandon's champion person Dylan McKay connected the CBS series—would amusement up to Jason's location unannounced. But arsenic Jason, who played Brandon, clarified successful existent beingness Luke was not rolling up successful his character's classical convertible Porsche.
"He lived 3 blocks distant from maine successful Los Angeles and helium would conscionable thrust his motorcycle implicit to my location and ringing the doorbell," the Private Eyes histrion recalled. "I'd beryllium like, 'Who's here?' and I'd unfastened the doorway and it'd beryllium Luke, like, 'Hey dude, what's up!'"
And adjacent aft filming wrapped in the celebrated zip codification successful 2000, Jason and Luke stayed close. In fact, they adjacent collaborated connected different projects passim the years.
"We worked unneurotic a fig of times extracurricular of the amusement and we truly enjoyed each the years we had unneurotic but unluckily that got chopped short," the 53-year-old explained. "It's bittersweet each March erstwhile we spell by the day of his passing."
Jason went connected to stock the bittersweet connection that came on with Luke's abrupt death.
"It was a existent freak happening that happened with him," helium added, "and it was a bully reminder to walk clip with radical you emotion and ne'er instrumentality immoderate of it for granted."
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Since Luke's passing, Jason isn't the lone subordinate of the people of '93 that shared stories of their enslaved with the tv heartthrob. Back successful 2021, Tori Spelling reflected connected however the Riverdale actor had stuck up for her against her abusive ex-boyfriend.
"I was successful a verbally abusive narration erstwhile I was 19," she recalled connected the Whine Down podcast successful Oct. 2021. "Yeah, Luke hated him and was precise protective. At my parents' Christmas Eve enactment 1 year, helium was determination and saw this ex-boyfriend, and they got into it."
"I was 19, truthful I was huffy astatine him alternatively of realizing, successful hindsight, that this feline loved maine and was like, 'I don't care. I'm gonna spell to bat for her,'" the Saved By The Bell alum confessed. "He was a large friend."
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