Lance Bass and Danielle Fishel developing rom-com about their failed '90s relationship
Turns out Lance Bass and Danielle Fishel's short-lived romance was made for the big screen.
The NSYNC member and "Boy Meets World" star dated briefly from 1999 to 2000, years before Bass publicly came out as gay. Now, they've revealed that they're working on turning their real-life experience into on-screen magic.
"Lance and I are actually working on a movie about our love story and about our prom experience," Fishel said during the Aug. 29 episode of "Pod Meets World," the podcast she hosts with fellow former "Boy Meets World" cast members Rider Strong and Will Friedle. "I dated Lance for about a year ... It was my senior year, and Lance came with me to my high school prom."
"Lance and I had a hotel room booked and I had a vision for what that night was going to be, and Lance was very nervous about what my vision for that night was going to be," Fishel continued, describing what happened on that fateful prom night.
"That is the night Lance talks about, where he felt like he was hurting me by not being honest with himself or anyone else about what was going on in his life, so it was kind of the impetus for him to say, 'I'm going to end our relationship.'"
As for why the pair wants to turn their short-lived romance into a film, Bass, who made a guest appearance in Monday's "Pod Meets World" episode, said he felt "so many people can relate to that story."
"So many people in the LGBT community, their prom night was the night they were like, 'Oh, wait a minute. This can't happen anymore,'" he said. "This was the catalyst for me that made me start to accept myself, which took a long time after that, but that was definitely the first little straw that broke."
Bass came out publicly in 2006. In 2011, he married actor Michael Turchin and the couple welcomed their first children, a set of twins, in October last year.
Fishel went on to marry twice. She and her second husband Jensen Karp, a writer and producer, have two children together.
