TIL the woman who played Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch is a queerphobic Trump fan.
TIL the woman who played Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch is a queerphobic Trump fan.
According to Susan Olsen, who played the youngest Brady on the original ‘Brady Bunch,’ her support of Donald Trump and conservative beliefs caused a revival series that was in the works at CBS Studios to be scrapped.
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Although Olsen says CBS was reluctant to cast her in the first place, she also claims that talks had continued for about a year when she had a phone call with the revival’s showrunner, its producer, and the son of Sherwood Schwartz, who created the original Brady Bunch. On the podcast, Olsen referred to the exchange with the three execs as “the Inquisition,” and said they asked her questions about her political views. Olsen said that the trio had “drank every drop of the Kool-Aid” and maintained that “by now, we know that the vaccine was not safe or effective.” (VF has reached out to a representative for Lloyd Schwartz for comment.) A source close to the project says that the issue with casting Olsen was not due to her support for Donald Trump, but rather her “controversial comments and hate speech, which she has noted she still stands by.”
According to Olsen, the revival was going to thrust the Brady family into the modern era. One of Jan’s children was going to be trans, and one of the Bradys was going to have a Black spouse. This, perhaps unsurprisingly, did not sit right with Olsen. “To that I was like, Come on, let’s not be so obvious,” said Olsen. “Let’s make this Black spouse somebody who has a really close relationship with another Brady, and that’s how this Brady met them. Give them a foundation so this isn’t a token position.”
This isn’t the first time Olsen has allegedly lost a gig due to her conservative views. Olsen was fired from LA Talk Radio’s Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics after using anti-LGBTQ language in 2016.
“Allegedly fired from other jobs for her political views” “Fired for her anti-lgbt views and speech”
These are not political views, they are prejudices. she was fired for being a hateful asshole.
“by now, we know that the vaccine was not safe or effective.”
Also yet another a dangerous moron who thinks they're a fucking genius.
Always gets me back to the Dr House scene about the mom who doesn't want to vaccinate her kid.
They like to say “go woke go broke” but I only ever hear about right wingers getting fired for saying terrible things about their co-workers and/or fans.
And they of course blame it on the woke mob or some other shit instead of just taking responsibility for the comments that people are having issues with or that a brand/company wants to have nothing to do with. They can't comprehend the idea of being wrong about something.
Shhh! That’s too much logic for them, you’re challenging them to reconsider their worldview.
I'm shocked this even qualifies as news. Like I'm looking at her IMDb page right now and she's been in basically nothing since the '70s. She wasn't even named character in her Brady Bunch Movie cameo. That's how unimpactful she is. Why would CBS even bother to find her. She's an actor who played a child in the '70s. No one's going to recognize her. They could have cast literally anybody and just lied to me and told me it was the same person and I would have believed them.
But where is Ja Rule to help us process this news?
Getting windmill dunked on by 50 Cent.
She's a real pile of garbage BUT I do kind of agree on the risk of a token black character-- I could absolutely see that happening in a fucking Brady reboot. Now, if they got a diverse writing staff and actually wrote something interesting with the premise, that'd be kind of amazing but we're talking a blatant boomer nostalgia bait show. You know that's going to be terrible.
lol and here I thought that comment was absolutely ludicrous.
“Let’s make this Black spouse somebody who has a really close relationship with another Brady, and that’s how this Brady met them. Give them a foundation so this isn’t a token position.”
You do realize why this is racist right? It's a natural progression to age and begin dating, I doubt they're doing similar back stories for every single Brady. To single out that a white/black relationship requires a precursor of events to be acceptable is just hidden/sly cultural bigotry. It might be easier to swallow for the older viewers of the show (who again, are being racist here), but I've seen these reboots trying to cater to younger audiences who will give them that social hype.
I don't know if you can't actually flesh out six families backstories if it's a multi-season show (especially if it's written well and not just six boring ass nuclear families.) Just not... you know, an idiotic "oh he's friends with X from work."
Modern Family did that mostly fine with multiple arcs, I think, although my fucked up head canon is that's the sequel to Married With Children (even if it really doesn't make sense, haha). In the Brady's case, I'd make one of the characters awkwardly racist-- let's say, Cindy, and have a laugh at her expense. Wait, actually that's starting to sound like It's Always Sunny so probably not!
I'm probably not a TV writer for a reason.
She said he would be a token because he didn't know the other Brady siblings. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The implication is that your family has to know a black guy really well before you marry him in case he isn't one of the good ones.
Fuck it. Let's just get more "A Very Brady..." movies made. Gary Cole's still around. What about the rest of the cast? Let's fucking go.
Never meet your heroes.
I’m struggling to imagine the life of someone whose hero was Cindy Brady.
I mean, half of the USA think a fascist egomaniac, pedophile and pathologic liar with a brain the size of a tomato is the messiah, so...
I would assume their life is also a struggle.
Is there a difference between homophobic and queerphobic or can I use them interchangeably? Honest question
Homophobic relates to homosexuals and queer refers to anyone who isn't cis or straight, which is essentially any member of the LGBT+ community. So homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia are forms of queerfobia.
I use queerphobic because I think it's more accurate. If you have a problem with homosexual people, it's very unlikely that you're okay with all other queer people.
Let’s make this Black spouse somebody who has a really close relationship with another Brady
..... Ri-ight. I'm sure that this proposed show, with six grown-up Brady kids, six Brady spouses, and a decent number of Next Gen Bradys will have plenty of time for yet another character .... I'm sure that wouldn't be a token position at all ...
Actually, while I was writing this, I had a thought and I went back and re-read her comment:
"One of Jan’s children was going to be trans, and one of the Bradys was going to have a Black spouse. [...] Let’s make this Black spouse somebody who has a really close relationship with another Brady, and that’s how this Brady met them."
It's interesting, isn't it? She mentions Jan specifically, and "another Brady" who could have a black spouse, but she's pretty coy ("this Brady") about who was originally going to have the black spouse. Who wants to bet it was her?
Regardless of who it was going to be, the idea that a character marrying a black person their siblings weren't already friends with makes that black person a token is a bizarre claim.
Yeah I remember learning this. Didn't she say Mr. Brady died because he was gay?
Bummer.