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"If you grew up in the &amp;#39;90s, you&amp;#39;re automatically obsessed with Boy Meets World. It&amp;#39;s a rite of passage to want to be Topanga, kiss Shawn, marry Cory, and ask Mr. Feeny for advice. Twelve-year-old Rowan Blanchard was born a decade too late to experience the wonders of Boy Meets World in real time, but she can one-up us all on the fandom front. &amp;quot;I can literally say that Cory and Topanga are my parents. It&amp;#39;s insane,&amp;quot; the young actress told us when we caught up with her on a rare day off. &amp;quot;Ben is the funniest person I have ever met, and Danielle is so down to earth and suuuuch a mom, even though she&amp;#39;s not a mom in real life.&amp;quot;\n\n As the leading lady\u2014and coolest-ever offspring\u2014in the throwback show&amp;#39;s highly anticipated sequel, Girl Meets World, Rowan did her due diligence and watched all the original episodes prior to filming. Most of them she&amp;#39;d already seen when the show ruled syndication in the early aughts, and seriously, girl knows her stuff. &amp;quot;Obviously Cory and Topanga are the coolest people on earth, and Shawn&amp;#39;s incredible, but my favorite characters are Mr. Feeny and Eric.&amp;quot; A Mr. Feeny loyalist? We love her already.\n\n It&amp;#39;s been a whirlwind since she landed the role, but the craziest part is that it almost didn&amp;#39;t happen. &amp;quot;At the first audition, in November of 2012, I&amp;#39;d just turned 11, and I was very overwhelmed, because it was Disney,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I read for Sabrina&amp;#39;s character and they kept telling me I was too young. Then I came back, and read for Riley and I fell in love with the character.&amp;quot;\n\n It worked out perfectly. Sabrina Carpenter, who plays her partner in crime, is now her IRL BFF (&amp;quot;She&amp;#39;s my best friend in the entire world&amp;quot;) and the role Rowan landed feels like it was made for her. &amp;quot;She&amp;#39;s very quirky and academic and silly, but that&amp;#39;s what makes her so loveable,&amp;quot; Rowan says of her character. &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;ve been a nerd my entire life. School has always been the most important thing to me.&amp;quot;\n\n But learning isn&amp;#39;t the only thing she feels passionate about. Rowan, a confessed shopping addict, is obsessed\u2014her words, not ours\u2014with clothes. &amp;quot;Fashion is the way I express myself,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I like taking a lot of risks. I&amp;#39;m partial to dresses, and right now I&amp;#39;m really into the high-waisted pants they have me in on the show. I wear floral prints almost every episode.&amp;quot; As if we needed another reason to tune in.\n\n Be sure to mark your calendars for the show&amp;#39;s premiere on the Disney channel on Friday, June 27. We&amp;#39;ll be watching with you! (Oh, and in the meantime, you can just play this adorable teaser on loop.)\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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