Growing up I would have never guessed he was half Asian. The half Asians I know (including me) the Asian features are so dominant. Most people never guess I'm half white.
His last name is so dutch, that you have to speak dutch if you want to pronounce it. When i found out that he is dutch and Indonesian, i freaked the F out. He is such a nice and handsome man, i will never forget how he portrayed zack Morris 🤗 nederlanders hebben talent❤
In kindergarten during playtime my best friend and I would pretend we were cooking breakfast for our husbands Zach and Slater in the play kitchen. I'm 27 now. He's still a hottie.
As a little boy back in the early 1990's, well, actually beginning in 1987 with "Good Morning Miss Bliss" which evidentally got converted to it's successor "Saved By The Bell", I used watch Zack, Screen, Lisa, and the gang grow up every Saturday Morning on NBC! Show brings back awesome memories from my childhood! A fun show to watch back in the day!
I like that he doesn't try to diminish his Asian ancestry by saying "I'm only a quarter Asian". He isn't presenting DNA to genomicist, he's presenting his cultural and family background to people who are interested in him as a person/personality. Saying specifics like "I'm only part this and part that" is closer to saying "I'm not this or that", rather than "I am this AND that" ie a holistic addressing because it doesn't unnecessarily exclude parts of his background. Anyone "correcting" him in these comments that's his mom is half Dutch half Asian: She's still considered Asian. She was raised by a ("full") Asian mom, he was raised by a ("half") Asian mom. He probably grew up eating rendang. Let him call himself Asian.
Considering his mother was born and bred in Bali, she was definitely an Indonesian. That's her main culture and 50% of his. So what he says makes perfect sense. Her Dad may well have been more Indonasian than Dutch as he was based there. Nationality and culture are 2 different things, sometimes people forget about it.
Now it's kind of sad to know they had to constantly dye his hair to make him an all American boy. It must have been exhausting to suppress his Asian roots back then. But then in some ways paved the way for Kristen kruiek and James Melton to play more all American roles for teen centered dramas and comedy TV shows.
Everyone in the Netherlands eats rendabg tho lol. But in all seriousness. I call myself Dutch and African also, eventhough my mom is a. Micture of Cameroonian and Frwnch also, ahe mostly identifies as African
I remember reading he had to bleach his hair something like every 2 weeks to keep it that blonde. That terrible. It's amazing he still has hair on his head.
Yeah, especially when you compare him to Tom Felton, who had to dye his hair blonde or silver to play Malfoy in the HP movies, and now much of his hair is hanging on by a thread
He was my first celebrity crush, good old Zach Morris. I'm 27 now so I was damn young when Saved By The Bell aired but I remember being glued to the tv when it came on. I loved that blonde hair, I was slightly crushed when I found out it was not his real color lol. Zach Morris, Benny from The Sandlot and Jean Claude Van Damme were my top three.
i was literally shocked to hear that he has indonesian ancestry but omg YEAAHHHHH INDONESIA REPRESENTS!! proud and MPG you still look as fine as those saved by the bell days
Nabila Syavika His father is Dutch .. his mother is indo.. indo were people with mixed european and native indonesian blood, during the 50's tens of thousands of them migrated to the Netherlands and also to the us. They said that at least a 1.5 million to speak native Dutch have indo blood in the Netherlands. In Australia and US there are at least 60 thousand people with indo blood.. Due to hundred years of colonisation. To give one example of a 'pure' Dutch with Indonesian blood: Mark Paul Gosselaar., Robin van Persie, van Halen brothers, dj don diablo, john heitinga, dutch politician geert wilders... the list goes on and on.
What's interesting is Mark admits that he's nothing like his character. Zack was the cool kid, Mark admits he simply acted out the way he saw others be in school. He literally acts out the cool kid. That's acting! Proper.
His mother is Balinesse from Bali Island. Dutch in Batavia since 1619-1942. Batavia (now Jakarta) is at Nederlandsche-Indie or Hindia-Belanda (now Indonesia). Jakarta is the Capitol City of Indonesia. Warm regards to Mark from Jakarta. I am Javanesse from Yogyakarta, city in Middle Java at Java Island.
I always loved the Zach Morris character growing up and that made me think of the name Zach as being the cool/good looking kid. I ended up naming my son Zach.
Wow, that's so interesting about his genetics. Genes are so weird. Siblings can look like twins or like they're completely different races. It's fascinating.
Besides that, southeast asian (malay) genes are not very strong. When they marry chinese their children will look very chinese, when they marry arabs their children will look arabs, when they marry white people, their children will be white etc
I'm Javanese Indonesia and my husband is from California. so we will give our baby name is AMEINDO that mean American Indonesian. and also the meaning of AMEINDO in France is caring person
While his voice and look is completely different, he's got the same mannerisms and movements. Especially at 0:30 his upper lip half raise just screams zack morris.
I'm half Asian too and it's nice to know that your crush knows what it's like to have people not know you're also a person of color (or at least some lol)
Zack was very much like Ferris, but the show's writers also gave him the powers to freeze the events around him...which I don't recall seeing in anything before.
OUT OF THIS WORLD (1987-1991), a fantasy tween sitcom that predates SBTB by a couple years, utilized that, too. On the show, it's the main power of the protagonist, who is half-alien. (Her mother is human; her father an alien.)
@@musicaltheatergeek79 - Now that you mention it, I do remember that a bit, though I wasn't aware it predated "Saved by the Bell". If you want to get technical though, the first episode of "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" aired in July of 1987, while "Out of This World" premiered that September...so the character of Zack Morris arrived on the TV scene first.
It's pretty clear, even just from watching clips of "Zack Morris is Trash", that the writers were going for a Ferris Bueller like rapscallion, but Zack comes off as a lot more sociopathic. Ferris has gotten some internet backlash in recent years, but at the end of the day he really did care about Cameron. Can you see Zack diving into a swimming pool to rescue Screech from drowning?
Ferris was never mean or narcissistic. He just wanted to do what he wanted for the time he had. It was Cameron, his sister and that other girl who were ironically what people saw Ferris as.
Wowow! I grew up watching reruns of saved by the bell during my high school days... I never would've guessed he is half Asian. He looks like a typical white kid to me.
Jimmy's like-- "yeah... I did whatever you did." 😄 Exactly. There is no nuance of the character Zack Morris that Mark-Paul Gosselaar could announce that most of the kids who were watching in that age bracket wouldn't already know or have recognized 1000%. LOL. I think that's great.
Real funny, Preppy.
+A.C. Slater lol how long have you been waiting for this moment?
I was not expecting this in the comments and it made me laugh for a good minute. +1
+A.C. Slater Best comment ever!
Win.
+A.C. Slater OMG!!! Thank you. I almost fell off the chair lmaooo
Growing up I would have never guessed he was half Asian. The half Asians I know (including me) the Asian features are so dominant. Most people never guess I'm half white.
For me it's the other way around they never guess I'm half Asian
+Matthew Schell Same.. All the half Asians I've seen have dark features.
+Zoë Sittrop Lmao you can definitely tell youre asian haha nice try though
promprom well you're one of the firsts than ahah
+Matthew Schell Hapas represent!
I really want him to talk about “Zac Morris is Trash” does he even know it exsists???
According to his podcast, yes - and he loves and agrees with it!
www.funnyordie.com/best-of-the-web/2019/1/23/18193748/confirmed-zack-morris-knows-hes-trash-mark-paul-gosselaar-anna-faris-unqualified
yeahhe does he does a podcast with the narrator
i dont think he does bc they both r 40 sum
@@whattgorl3770 what does age have to do with anything? Adults have the internet too. It's not just kids. 😂😂
"so you're Swedish?" jimmy had a big blond moment there lol
No Fallon is just a trash interviewer!!!!
He's just really baaad
When doesn't he? Plus he's a shitty host in general. In one ear-out the other. Ruins fk'ing interviews, galore.
🤣just lack of geography lessons in school 😂😅
He's so handsome.
Zack Morris is trash
Eric Estrada then why you here
Gay detected
@@alzammalikkohler998 and?
He's incredible looking. Guess he'll be an eternal crush for me.
Too bad you can't have him internally
He's not good looking like he was on saved by the he'll
Same!
Evil Akuma STOP!
Zack Morris is trash!
he's been cute his whole life
And gay as fuck...
Totally agree
He has
He's not " gay". You sound like a jerk.
Mathin3D you’re an idiot
Zach was also a fucking warlock. The dude could stop time whenever he wanted.
+JJ Keller TIME OUT! T
+JJ Keller Right. Warlock. He wasn't a Time Lord because he didn't save any aliens.
Awww. I love how excited he is about telling people his Mom is Indonesian.
I already knew that though! ;)
"I love how excited he is about telling people his Mom is Indonesia."
His mom is not a geographical area, you idiot.
encycl07pedia learn some manners and watch your rude behavior.
vh9network You're one to be talking about manners and rude behavior. Mind your own business, fuckwad.
I'll mind your business on this site as it's everyone's business, and since you're out of line. I'm reporting you.
vh9network lol. You sure are a stupid piece of shit, aren't you? Does your mommy know you're watching late-night TV clips on TH-cam?
Gosselaar was the perfect person to be Zack Morris. He really gave that character his life onscreen.
He looks like a mixture if chris Pratt and Robert downey jr
Wow this is blowing my mind
No just Chris Pratt I don’t really see rdj
A bit like young Keanu
I see more Chris Pratt and Paul Rudd
@@blairmcauley2282 his eyes looks kinda like Robert.
His last name is so dutch, that you have to speak dutch if you want to pronounce it. When i found out that he is dutch and Indonesian, i freaked the F out. He is such a nice and handsome man, i will never forget how he portrayed zack Morris 🤗 nederlanders hebben talent❤
As a Flemish I loved to pronounce his name!
Yeah talent at being cheapskates
In kindergarten during playtime my best friend and I would pretend we were cooking breakfast for our husbands Zach and Slater in the play kitchen. I'm 27 now. He's still a hottie.
+Elizabeth Wilson You can cook for me :)
+DjJokerr Hope you like plastic eggs and rubber toast.
+Elizabeth Wilson I sure do love me a empty cup of a soda, and a plastic donut
david lewis that's not old you moron
Oml
As a little boy back in the early 1990's, well, actually beginning in 1987 with "Good Morning Miss Bliss" which evidentally got converted to it's successor "Saved By The Bell", I used watch Zack, Screen, Lisa, and the gang grow up every Saturday Morning on NBC! Show brings back awesome memories from my childhood! A fun show to watch back in the day!
Screen?
I like that he doesn't try to diminish his Asian ancestry by saying "I'm only a quarter Asian". He isn't presenting DNA to genomicist, he's presenting his cultural and family background to people who are interested in him as a person/personality.
Saying specifics like "I'm only part this and part that" is closer to saying "I'm not this or that", rather than "I am this AND that" ie a holistic addressing because it doesn't unnecessarily exclude parts of his background.
Anyone "correcting" him in these comments that's his mom is half Dutch half Asian: She's still considered Asian. She was raised by a ("full") Asian mom, he was raised by a ("half") Asian mom. He probably grew up eating rendang. Let him call himself Asian.
Considering his mother was born and bred in Bali, she was definitely an Indonesian. That's her main culture and 50% of his. So what he says makes perfect sense. Her Dad may well have been more Indonasian than Dutch as he was based there. Nationality and culture are 2 different things, sometimes people forget about it.
Now it's kind of sad to know they had to constantly dye his hair to make him an all American boy. It must have been exhausting to suppress his Asian roots back then. But then in some ways paved the way for Kristen kruiek and James Melton to play more all American roles for teen centered dramas and comedy TV shows.
Everyone in the Netherlands eats rendabg tho lol. But in all seriousness. I call myself Dutch and African also, eventhough my mom is a. Micture of Cameroonian and Frwnch also, ahe mostly identifies as African
saved by the bell was a awesome show. Zack was my favourite character. I remember I went into school one day and acted like him. lol
I remember reading he had to bleach his hair something like every 2 weeks to keep it that blonde. That terrible. It's amazing he still has hair on his head.
Yeah, especially when you compare him to Tom Felton, who had to dye his hair blonde or silver to play Malfoy in the HP movies, and now much of his hair is hanging on by a thread
@@somebodyoncerolledme7211 I'm gonna blame Tom Felton on bad genes and bad hair care lol. He could have cut all his hair off and restarted lol.
@@somebodyoncerolledme7211Yeah LOL only for like 20 minutes total across the span of 8 movies
He was my first celebrity crush, good old Zach Morris. I'm 27 now so I was damn young when Saved By The Bell aired but I remember being glued to the tv when it came on. I loved that blonde hair, I was slightly crushed when I found out it was not his real color lol. Zach Morris, Benny from The Sandlot and Jean Claude Van Damme were my top three.
i was literally shocked to hear that he has indonesian ancestry but omg YEAAHHHHH INDONESIA REPRESENTS!! proud and MPG you still look as fine as those saved by the bell days
Nabila Syavika
His father is Dutch .. his mother is indo.. indo were people with mixed european and native indonesian blood, during the 50's tens of thousands of them migrated to the Netherlands and also to the us. They said that at least a 1.5 million to speak native Dutch have indo blood in the Netherlands. In Australia and US there are at least 60 thousand people with indo blood.. Due to hundred years of colonisation. To give one example of a 'pure' Dutch with Indonesian blood: Mark Paul Gosselaar., Robin van Persie, van Halen brothers, dj don diablo, john heitinga, dutch politician geert wilders... the list goes on and on.
tell me why Zach morris is and always will be the biggest teen heartthrob lol
I’m sorry but he’s trash...
I think he's very good looking but he's also funny and he was just kind of a " schemer ".
@@truthtdp it's a joke, not to be taken THAT personally.
What's interesting is Mark admits that he's nothing like his character. Zack was the cool kid, Mark admits he simply acted out the way he saw others be in school. He literally acts out the cool kid.
That's acting! Proper.
We’ll he was during saved by the bell the original) YESSS but now not really
When I went to get my haircut in late 80s and early 90s. I would just ask for the Zack from Saved By The Bell style.
omg i love that
@@fionawagner4863 yea there was no one cooler than zack
Me too! Lols
His mother is Balinesse from Bali Island.
Dutch in Batavia since 1619-1942. Batavia (now Jakarta) is at Nederlandsche-Indie or Hindia-Belanda (now Indonesia). Jakarta is the Capitol City of Indonesia. Warm regards to Mark from Jakarta. I am Javanesse from Yogyakarta, city in Middle Java at Java Island.
I'm just going to have a crush on this man for life he's aging so well zaaaaaammmnn zack back at it again with the good genes 😍
No matter what other work he does or how many awards he wins for it, Mark-Paul Gosselarr’s name will always be synonymous with “Zack Morris.”
hes still gorgeous. and very young. and very zack morrisy. another reunion please!
I love mark-Paul Gosselaar because as myself being half dutch is amazing absolutely amazing I’m not embarrassed to use it when I do
wow. Never would've guessed he's half Indonesian...
Me either but I see it a little now when I look at his eyes. Not very prominent but there is an " almond shape " to them.
Keturunan Indo-Belanda, ibunya sendiri blasteran Bali-Belanda dari generasi kolonial
@@Nona_dav genes work differently on people i guess. I'm full Indonesian yet ppl "accuse" me for being mixed all the time 😂
@@babyblues7608 hahah yes true!
He is NOT half Indonesian. When do people realise that we Indo's are not half Indonesians. We are Indo's ! ......en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo_people
Big fan of Mark Gosselaar such a great actor.
Zack is so handsome ! He is a heartthrob 😍
He is so cute in saved by the bell I love saved my the bell it's my fav
Wow so Zack Morris was half Dutch-half Indonesian all along! so cool!
Yaaay, Indonesian represent!
Half indonesian represent
"Represent", lmao. So 2013
Not really represented in the show tho….he repped more like cool surfer type of white boy….was a good show
This man is a treasure
As alumni of history student who studied Dutch archives, I can confirm that Gosselaar is pronounce "khoselaar". 🇮🇩
I always loved the Zach Morris character growing up and that made me think of the name Zach as being the cool/good looking kid. I ended up naming my son Zach.
I named my son Brian-Anthony and I got the idea to have a hyphenated first name from Mark-Paul.❤
the way he talks is the same oh god
Woof he aged pretty well if you ask me.
+Mark-Paul Gosselaar on His Time as Zack Morris
I didn't know he's part Indonesian OMG since i'm Indonesian i'm really happy!!
arashelyouri he looks so different and more Asian in Pitch
Must put a respect for those who still proud from where his/her parents came from.. or what blood of he/she is...😊
Wow, that's so interesting about his genetics. Genes are so weird. Siblings can look like twins or like they're completely different races. It's fascinating.
Besides that, southeast asian (malay) genes are not very strong. When they marry chinese their children will look very chinese, when they marry arabs their children will look arabs, when they marry white people, their children will be white etc
His ancestors must have been part of the Dutch colonial empire in Indonesia.
He's sweedish
+I Smell Fresh Cash His father is Dutch, his mother is Dutch-Indonesian..
Lisa-Valerie Gerritsen I'm trolling
I was in 6th grade or Jr high when this show came out..it was great raised home to see it.
Sometimes I'm proud to be dutch
+gefelice hetzelfde!
+gefelice I'm so proud of his 'G' xD
Jep ik ook!
+gefelice haha echt he!
Ik was toch wel verbaast om hoe goed hij het uitsprak! Hij klonk echt even Nederlands haha
He really bulked up for Pitch!
naturellebella he looks like a different person. he looks more Asian on Pitch too.
Mark Paul. Man, 12 Dates of Christmas is and always will be one of my favorite Goto Christmas films.
Oml my mum is Indonesian and my dad is Dutch as well😂
My father is Indonesian and my mother is Dutch high five
Wow for a non Dutch speaker he actually pronounced his name really well
He sounded like he was trying to hock up a hairball. lol
But I think he knows a little bit of dutch maybe from his parents.
I love Saved by the bell it's such a great show
I'm Javanese Indonesia and my husband is from California.
so we will give our baby name is AMEINDO that mean American Indonesian.
and also the meaning of AMEINDO in France is caring person
Memories....
While his voice and look is completely different, he's got the same mannerisms and movements. Especially at 0:30 his upper lip half raise just screams zack morris.
u can see the Zack in his face and hear it in his voice
He grew up well, he's still looking good.
Love him so much!! Love Mark Paul so much. 😊
te amo por siempre Zack Morris
I'm half Asian too and it's nice to know that your crush knows what it's like to have people not know you're also a person of color (or at least some lol)
He had the best die job ever then and also now.
Indonesian here.... love it
Mark Paul you're my favorite nowww☺️☺️
Cutting off in mid-sentence is always a good way to end something. No frustrations at all..
He aged so gracefully!
I just can't get enough of this stuff.
Mother from Indonesia 🇮🇩
Like a magician revealing the secrets to his tricks
Mi amor platonico de niña ❤ Bello Mark
He is beautiful... 😍😍😍
OMG I LOVED THIS!~ I'm so GLAD they all agreed to do this, I have Asian roots too LOL
OH MY GOD! I AM INDONESIAN! HOW COULD I JUST KNOW ABOUT HER MOTHER IS FROM INDONESIA?!?! OMG I LOVE SBTB AND Mark and mario!
He's soo handsome
He's part Indo ? What?!?!?! Yay, an Indo actor!!!!
Glad to see confirmation about Zac Morris being based on Ferris Bueller. Makes so much sense :-)
This made me so happy
He should be on Fast and Furious, could be Brian’s brother or something
Zack was very much like Ferris, but the show's writers also gave him the powers to freeze the events around him...which I don't recall seeing in anything before.
OUT OF THIS WORLD (1987-1991), a fantasy tween sitcom that predates SBTB by a couple years, utilized that, too. On the show, it's the main power of the protagonist, who is half-alien. (Her mother is human; her father an alien.)
@@musicaltheatergeek79 - Now that you mention it, I do remember that a bit, though I wasn't aware it predated "Saved by the Bell". If you want to get technical though, the first episode of "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" aired in July of 1987, while "Out of This World" premiered that September...so the character of Zack Morris arrived on the TV scene first.
Ugh !! I FRIGGIN LOVE him in Pitch- forever Mike Lawson for me!
I never found him that appealing on Saved by the Bell, but now...man, he is fine 😍
im like half chinese indonesian & american and i can relate to him sm lmao, like no one knows that im from indonesia when they first see me
Love you mark😍❤
He looked great as Zack Morris! Those blonde highlights really look good on him.
That crowd is dead
Yeah, that's what I thought. Very reserved.
+Christina Thomas 🌼🌼 check out my channel and let me know if I made you laugh♥♥♥... I will subscribe back... ♥♥♥
Didn't hate it though.. At least they're not clapping at every damn thing
People were too mesmerized by his beauty. It even shut up Jimmy. This is probably the quietest interview he's done.
It's pretty clear, even just from watching clips of "Zack Morris is Trash", that the writers were going for a Ferris Bueller like rapscallion, but Zack comes off as a lot more sociopathic. Ferris has gotten some internet backlash in recent years, but at the end of the day he really did care about Cameron. Can you see Zack diving into a swimming pool to rescue Screech from drowning?
Ferris was never mean or narcissistic. He just wanted to do what he wanted for the time he had. It was Cameron, his sister and that other girl who were ironically what people saw Ferris as.
Jimmy Fallon: Best small-talk interviewer. Don't take that as a compliment.
Zack Morris is NOT TRASH!!! Lol 😁👍🏻
The fact the host is fan makes it enjoyable watch too
YASSS. Represent your Asian roots!
Loved that show! What a cutie. 🤩
I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He has never been ugly
He is very handsome
He’s so cute🤗
Other Indonesian entertainers: Michelle Branch, Kristen Kroek and the Van Halen brothers.
RIP Eddie van Halen 😢
Terimakasih zack Morris.. Indonesia negara yang indah
Wowow! I grew up watching reruns of saved by the bell during my high school days... I never would've guessed he is half Asian. He looks like a typical white kid to me.
I love him 😁🤗😘
Theirs many mixed Dutch/ Indonesians. The Van halen brothers are another famous one to name a few.
Mind blown
He will always be Zack Morris to me.
✌😁 i am from indonesia, i enjoy watching jimmy fallon and saved by the bell tv shows
Jimmy's like-- "yeah... I did whatever you did."
😄 Exactly. There is no nuance of the character Zack Morris that Mark-Paul Gosselaar could announce that most of the kids who were watching in that age bracket wouldn't already know or have recognized 1000%. LOL.
I think that's great.