There was virtually a sequel to the story of a beautiful girl. In accordance with Susan Olsen, who portrayed Cindy—the lovely child of the household on the hit ’70s sitcom The Brady Bunch—a revival sequence in regards to the famously blended household was within the works at CBS Studios, then was scrapped because of her conservative political opinions.
Whereas showing on the WalkAway Campaign podcast, Olsen mentioned that her assist of Donald Trump and her beliefs about COVID vaccines, amongst different opinions, led to CBS Studios scrapping the revival sequence, which might have adopted the life and occasions of the grownup Brady Bunch youngsters.
Within the revival sequence, Olsen says Cindy would have been a libertarian podcaster—however she additionally claims that CBS didn’t need her to seem on this system because of her vocal political opinions. “I did have a cellphone name with my [TV] siblings and my agent,” she mentioned. “All people was saying, ‘We’re sorry, however they simply gained’t budge. They only won’t have you ever on this.’ I’m like, Wow, I’ve been canceled. A task that I’ve performed for over 50 years, I can’t play it now as a result of I’m too harmful. I used to be like, ‘Nicely, okay guys, good luck, I hope you possibly can promote it.’” A supply near the undertaking says that it was very early in improvement when it was scrapped.
Though Olsen says that the studio was reluctant to forged her within the first place, she additionally claims that talks had continued for a couple of 12 months when she had a cellphone name with the revival’s showrunner, its producer, and the son of Sherwood Schwartz, who created the unique Brady Bunch. On the podcast, Olsen referred to the trade with the three execs as “the Inquisition,” and mentioned they requested her questions on her political opinions. Olsen mentioned that the trio had “drank each drop of the Kool-Support” and maintained that “by now, we all know that the vaccine was not protected or efficient.” (VF has reached out to a consultant for Lloyd Schwartz for remark.) A supply near the undertaking says that the problem with casting Olsen was not because of her assist for Donald Trump, however relatively her “controversial feedback and hate speech, which she has famous she nonetheless stands by.”
In accordance with Olsen, the revival was going to thrust the Brady household into the fashionable period. Certainly one of Jan’s youngsters was going to be trans, and one of many Bradys was going to have a Black partner. This, maybe unsurprisingly, didn’t sit proper with Olsen. “To that I used to be like, Come on, let’s not be so apparent,” mentioned Olsen. “Let’s make this Black partner anyone who has a very shut relationship with one other Brady, and that’s how this Brady met them. Give them a basis so this isn’t a token place.”
In accordance with Olsen, the revival sequence is now “just about useless within the water,” however maybe a sequence following 5 out of six of the Brady siblings isn’t out of the realm of chance. All three Brady Bunch boys, Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland) are nonetheless round, as are the opposite two women, Marcia (Maureen McCormick) and Jan (Eve Plumb). (Robert Reed, who performed patriarch Mike Brady, died in 1992, whereas Florence Henderson, who performed Carol Brady, died in 2016. Ann B. Davis, who performed housekeeper and heart sq. within the title sequence Alice Nelson, died in 2014.) Even down one Brady, society wants a Brady Bunch revival sequence, if solely to unravel Marcia’s pronunciation of the word werewolves.
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