Actress Susan Olsen played Cindy Brady on the hit 70s sitcom. brady bunchrevealed that the very “woke” reboot of the famous series was canceled because she is politically conservative.
talk to #Walkaway campaign On this week's podcast, Olsen said the idea for the reboot came about after the cast reunited for the 2019 HGTV series. very bold renovation. The HGTV series focused on remodeling homes to resemble the 1970s TV series “Brady's Home,” and drew 28 million viewers, making it the most-watched premiere in network history .
The ratings of the HGTV series inspired producers to create a revival TV series that included a variety of “diverse” ideas.
Olsen, who is politically conservative, said the character of Cindy Brady will be portrayed as a libertarian-style podcaster. Meanwhile, Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) becomes an outspoken liberal who has a transgender child. And one of the Brady women ends up marrying a black man.
Actress Cindy Brady said that this way the show would be more diverse. roseanne Although their ideals clash in the series, in the end everyone loves and respects each other.
“Her reboot featured a family with completely different political views, but in the end they all love and respect each other,” Olsen said of Barr's show.
But Olsen says all plans fell apart when producers discovered she had been fired from the radio show in 2016 for “homophobic abuse.”
The actress also said she agreed to take a course on political correctness if Brady's new show gets the green light.
But producers also discovered that Olsen, a conservative, has social media full of criticism of the coronavirus vaccine and mask mandates, as well as other conservative views. And according to her, that was enough to cancel the entire Brady reboot effort.
“Wow, it's been cancelled. It's a role I've played for over 50 years, but I can't play it now because it's too dangerous,” she told the podcaster.
Olsen also said that he was concerned that the cancellation of the reboot would damage his relationship with Eve Plumb.
“I think she feels betrayed,” Olsen said, adding that Plumb feels Donald Trump, whom Olsen supports, is “evil.”
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