It seems as though Navid Shirazi might be getting some more storylines.
Last night on Beverly Hills 90210 (2.0), Persian character Navid Shirazi confessed his love for his middle-school crush, the rehab-visiting “Adriana”. This – we hope – means that there will be more to come for Navid.
As we predicted, Michael Steger, the actor cast to play the character of Navid Shirazi in the new Beverly Hills 90210 spinoff – set to air this September - is not of Iranian descent.
The names of the new Beverly Hills 90210 casthave been revealed: Dustin Milligan, Anna Lynne McCord, Jessica Walter, Shenae Grimes, Tristan Wilds, Lori Loughlin, Ryan Eggold, Jessica Stroup, and Michael Steger.
And as far as we can decipher: the producers have decided to forego using a person of real Iranian/Persian descent to play the role of Navid Shirazi (whose charater was previously described as an Iranian-American student).
We conclude as such because, none of the cast names mentioned resemble an Iranian name. Though to the producers’ credit(s), they just probably had a hard time finding an Iranian in LA.