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Posted on 10/22/2024 10:07:58 PM PDT by Morgana
Susan Olsen who played Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch has claimed that a 'woke' reboot of the series was axed over her conservative political views.
The actress, 63, lifted the lid on the scrapped revival - which would have included black and transgender characters - in an interview with the #WalkAway Campaign podcast this month.
Olsen said that the CBS network became interested in bringing back the iconic '70s series after the cast reunited for A Very Brady Renovation in 2019, which brought record ratings to HGTV at the time.
The planned revival was set to take some inspiration from the controversial Roseanne reboot by having the actors real life personalities and political views shape their on-screen characters.
Olsen explained that Cindy was going to be a Libertarian podcaster on the series, while Jan Brady, played by outspoken liberal Eve Plumb, would have a transgender child. To increase the diversity on the all-white cast, producers also planned to give one of the Bradys a black spouse.
'I was hoping to continue what Roseanne Barr had set out to do, which I really liked,' Olsen shared.
'Her reboot had a family with completely different political opinions and in the end they all love and respect each other.'
However, Olsen's dreams were cut short when network executives at CBS discovered that the actress had been fired from a radio gig in 2016 for going on a 'homophobic rant.'
At the time, Olsen had used a gay slur in a private message to openly gay actor Leon Acord-Whiting, after he campaigned to have her fired from her LA Talk Radio show for supporting Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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Learn from Bud light for cry it out loud!
Thankfully we dodged a bullet this time.
So Cindy was the smart one.
“Thindy”
“Jan Brady, played by outspoken liberal Eve Plumb, would have a transgender child.”
Sure Jan.
Thank you, Susan.
The Left can be as antisemetic as they want today, but say the “F” word to someone who’s “openly gay”, even if he’s a lying sack of $#!+, and suddenly you’re worse than Hitler.
The irony of this is that no one under about age 55 saw the series when it was originally on the air.
And while cBS would obviously be trying to attract younger audiences, turning off older ‘returning’ audience members with woke bs gets them nowhere: net loss.
Based solely on election demographics, cBS would be p!ssing off 50% of the viewers no matter which way they went. Since network executives are nothing if not un creative spineless cowards, you know they’d go 150% woke in the reboot and no one would watch. So, good riddance to the project.
It’s too bad, I bet some of those Brady kids could have used the paycheck.
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