![]() The actor's mother died suddenly 3 1/2 years ago, right after his first full season on "Family Matters." Harrison now lives alone in the home they shared from the time he was 6 months old. Harrison worked so often in commercials and in guest spots that his mother left her job to manage not only her son but other aspiring actors as well. Before sixth grade, he had been hired in seven national commercials, including ones for Burger King and Fruity Pebbles cereal. He attended a children's acting workshop and landed a role as Steve Martin's youngest sibling in the 1979 movie "The Jerk." When auditions cut into his playtime, his interest in acting waned but was revived in the fifth grade. He just doesn't grasp concepts in a conventional way." At age 4, Harrison told his mother, a computer engineer, that he wanted to be an actor. He has no memory of what happened 10 minutes before. "Since Larenz wasn't coming back, they changed Waldo to Eddie's best friend," said Harrison, who joined the cast for the third season. When bully and buddy were asked to return on a regular basis, Tate declined, but Harrison went for the chance to co-star on the series, which begins its seventh season this fall. Waldo first appeared as sidekick to the school bully (Larenz Tate) who terrorized Urkel. Of late, Waldo, with his 1.0 grade-point average, has found his calling in cooking and enrolled in culinary school. "I really have been doing more and more on the show," says Harrison, 21, who plays best friend to Eddie Winslow (Darius McCrary) and irritant to Steve Urkel (Jaleel White). Producers of ABC's hit sitcom "Family Matters" (Fridays at 8) introduced actor Shawn Harrison's endearingly dim Waldo in the series' second season, and he's been in demand ever since. Waldo Faldo may be stealing your thunder. “Over time, figuring out that, ‘If you do this and I do that, we win’ - that’s ultimately what evolved.Watch out, Urkel. That was a process.”Įventually, though, the cast came around, he says. “They kind of had to accept that I was there. “My arrival to Family Matters was a rocky start at the beginning,” White said. I think along the way it got to be a little resentful, but it was just an adjustment that we had to make.” “And we said ‘OK,'” Payton said at the time. That attitude, according to several stars who appeared in an episode of E!’s True Hollywood Story, was in reaction to actors being told at one point by showrunners that the “dynamic was going to change” to make the show more about Urkel. In an interview with TV One’s Uncensored in 2021, White said that tension was due to him not being “welcomed to the cast at all.” The Urkel actor has previously suggested there were on-set tensions between him and his Family Matters co-stars during the show’s run. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to White’s reps for comment. “He said something about, ‘She must want to melee.’ I said, ‘What’s a melee?’ He said, ‘a fight.’ I turned around - if he wanna fight, I would,” she told ET. That’s when, Payton said, she walked off, but as she was doing so, she heard White make a remark she asked co-star Darius McCrary - who played her son, Eddie Winslow - to clarify what White had said. ![]() ![]() “He was so mad, he started kicking and screaming and stuff.” “There was something that he wanted to do and I said we can’t do that, standards and practices will not let that pass. Growing Up Urkel: How Jaleel White Is Owning His Legacy ![]()
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