Bridgit Mendler was initially unsure whether dating Shane Harper was a good idea. Mendler and Harper met in 2009 during the casting process of "Good Luck Charlie," according to The Hollywood Reporter, but Mendler was unimpressed by her co-star then. Complicating things further, they played boyfriend and girlfriend throughout the series. "We were 16 when we met. Actually, he was 15. I'm a cougar ... Maybe he was just too boisterous or something and I was just lame and I thought I was too good," she said on "The Meredith Vieira Show" in 2015.
But Mendler and Harper struck up a friendship as they belonged to the same social circle. For two years, Harper tried hard to impress Mendler — and it worked. "He wore me down, man," she told Vieira, adding she was glad he didn't give up. "I think chivalry should never die. I think I guy should fight for a girl and wait for a girl." While she initially had reservations, Mendler was later glad she had got to know the real Harper before dating him. "It's great that we knew each other for so long beforehand, so we were really friends," she told Yahoo.
In February 2014, Mendler expressed gratitude for their "Good Luck Charlie" co-workers, who went out of their way to accommodate their off-screen relationship. "I think everybody was very respectful about it and wanted to make sure that it wouldn't be weird," she told the website.
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