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🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Before American Pie or Beauty, Mena Suvari had TWO credits on her resumé for the same exact show - but NOT the same exact character! And because that show was Boy Meets World - she’s now coming on the podcast as…herself.
Mena shares her journey moving across the country to become an actor, eventually making it to John Adams High where she earned the title of “Your Crush’s Biggest Crush,” thanks to Rider revealing his teenage feelings decades later.
She also tells stories from the American Pie set and reveals the major superhero role Mena almost landed. It’s a reunion many seasons in the making - right here on Pod Meets World
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. So I've been going into production on a project, which I will be able to tell you all about in a couple of months. |
| 0:32.0 | But so we've been, you know, doing days at my house mostly with a very small crew, mostly just my producers and |
| 0:39.4 | whatnot. But day one, we, like, I made sure we got like great bagels, had them all laid out. |
| 0:46.4 | Nice. |
| 0:46.7 | And then we, uh, break for lunch. And we're like, oh, what are we going to order for lunch? |
| 0:50.5 | By day three, we're like, just sandwiches. What are I? Yeah. And I just realized, like, this is the way production goes, right? Like, the quality of food just gets steadily worse as you just get into production. And it made me think of some of the worst food that I've had on sets, because they can go so extreme. There have been sets where you go there and, like, |
| 1:13.9 | they have, you know, sushi and catered lunches. |
| 1:17.3 | And it's just like the budget is insane. |
| 1:20.1 | And then there are other sets where that's really not the case. |
| 1:23.7 | And for me, like, the best example. |
| 1:25.8 | And this is I might have actually told a version of the story. |
| 1:28.0 | I know it's out there in the world because I think it's even like a trivia fact on IMDB. |
| 1:31.9 | But I did this movie, My Giant, which I know we've talked about. |
| 1:35.0 | Right. So I went to, I went to Prague to shoot this movie. |
| 1:40.0 | And the food was subpar. |
| 1:44.2 | Okay. Left a lot to subpar. Okay. |
| 1:44.8 | Left a lot to be desired. |
| 1:46.3 | Okay. |
| 1:46.5 | And there is a scene where I get puked on by the giant. |
| 1:51.9 | And in order to make it, you know, believable, they took some potatoes and carrots and food dye and made this giant vat because I had to be |
| 2:04.6 | covered in vomit. It was one of those classic kid actor scenes where it's just cover the kid and |
| 2:09.4 | stuff. So they had this giant vat sitting on the set and the extras that were about like a hundred extras that day thought it was lunch |
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