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Mario Lopez want to appear on Gosselaar Mark-PaulNBC Series Base – but only if his Saved by the bell Costar kill him on screen.

“I was with Mario and someone said that Mario wanted to get on. I said, ‘Oh cool. You could play Mario Lopez, and you could be a journalist.’ And it’s like, ‘No, I want to play a dead person,’ ”Gosselaar was told, 51, Weekly US Before pointing out that his character, sir, “Not Killing Anyone yet” Base.

Lopez, 51, however, is determined to have a murderer. “He said, ‘I want you to kill me.’ And I said to him, ‘Well, that won’t be too hard.’ But he should be careful what he wants, ”quoted Gosselaar. “Because I’m on Blue nypd And when we had people dead on our set, you’ve died for a while. “

He continued: “You lay there, and it’s not fun. It’s never fun to play a dead person. So he should be careful what he wants. But I’d take anyone (my Saved by the bell) Costars on Base. It would be very fun to have any of them on our show – as long as it didn’t take away from the story we tell. “

Gosselaar (and Lopez) became the names of homes after they starred in Saved by the bell Between 1989 and 1993. Gosselaar went on to appear Franklin & Bash, Mixed, Traw and The passage before he reunited with Lopez and the rest of the Saved by the bell Cast on Peacock’s short -lived sequence series.

Now, Gosselaar has won Us over with his portrait of the villain character Sir forward Base.

“When I did research for this character, I needed to have a reference. (Our Showrunner Carry oths) Ted Bundy”He remembered the actor.“ Until that point, I had known Ted Bundy, but I didn’t know much about it. When I dive on it, I realized he was a very handsome man and could disarm his victims. Even when he was in court, he was a very smart person. He made friends in a strange way and people rooted for him. “

Gosselaar admitted him not always understand The way viewers supported Sir, adding, “It’s just interesting dynamics, and I wanted to make sure we continued that with this character. I could play Sir in a certain way – which would always make you hate it – but that’s not really fun. … I think it’s just a study of society – but I feel the same way.”

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Basewho first performed in 2023, following the public relations expert and emergency manager Gabi Mosely (Hampton) and her team of associates as they worked to find missing people who have been ignored or forgotten by law enforcement. Back -ups throughout the series reveal that Gabi’s call came after it was teenage kidnapped – by none other than Sir Gosselaar.

As well as staring on the show, Gosselaar now a director too After the episode Thursday, April 3, of Base.

“You have to do your homework when you direct one of our episodes because there are so many loose heads,” shared Gosselaar Us. “Things that happened last season are either being wrapped or expanding in the story so you really have to do your homework on our show.”

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Gosselaar expanded on the challenges faced Behind the camera, adding, “We have a very good cast, and I think they are always on their best behavior. It was probably not the hardest thing for us – when I was directing – being wrapped in conversation on a set. Because we all like each other and because we all get on very well with our crew and we are all a huge family.

He concluded: “So sometimes we have to remind ourselves of that, and we rely on our (assistant directors) to keep us in line. We have such a limited time and we have highly ambitious scripts. We must always be firing and we do so.”

Base Tunes on NBC on Thursday at 10 pm ET and new episodes are available the following day on Peacock.