“The Brady Bunch” stars Barry Williams and Christopher Knight are feeling reflective in regards to the previous, having not too long ago celebrated the present’s fifty fifth anniversary.
However Williams desires to make clear one piece of historical past.
In a current interview with Us Weekly, the 70-year-old mentioned, “We all hooked up with each other at some point, not necessarily while we were filming.”
“That’s not accurate,” Williams instructed Fox Information Digital. “I said that 14 years ago…you know how these things cycle around.”
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Barry Williams, left, mentioned his feedback in regards to the “Brady Bunch” solid having all “hooked up” with one another throughout the unique run of the present weren’t utterly “accurate.” (Getty Pictures)
“We all grew up together. We’re the people that we knew, we trusted,” he defined. “We spent more time together as a ‘Brady’ family during times of the year and most of the year than with our own families. And we genuinely liked each other, and it seemed kind of a normal extension of affection.
“So what I meant by that was that Bobby and Cindy had a faux marriage in Tiger’s doghouse, actually. I dated Maureen and we went out and I used to be her first kiss. In order that’s form of what I meant by hooking up.”
Knight said of his relationships while on the show, “I used to be a late bloomer and really gradual. And I used to be being chased by Eve [Plumb] for quite a few years.”
“You recognize, trying again on it, it’s form of embarrassing,” he added.
“What does that should do with hooking up?” Williams questioned.
“Properly, I tripped,” Knight responded, getting a laugh from his co-star.
Williams and Knight agreed that the cast was closely bonded, with Williams noting they spent more time together than they often did with their families. (Getty Images)
“The Brady Bunch” aired for five seasons on ABC from 1969 to 1974 and has become a pop culture staple with spin-offs, parodies, and a still-passionate fan base.
And much like the close-knit family onscreen, behind the scenes, the “Brady Bunch” stars really connected.
“We all grew up together. We’re the people that we knew, we trusted.”
Knight, who was around 12 years old when the show began, recalled that it was “a very warm and inviting environment. And I keep coming back to that because it was. It was a struggle in my own household to feel validated, to have a voice and to feel anything but a burden…the juxtaposition is now not lost on me.”
“There was an authenticity to doing that pilot because the show was about meeting each other, learning about each other. And we were literally meeting each other and learning about each other,” Williams said.
He recalled filming the wedding of their onscreen parents, Mike and Carol, played by Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, and knowing “it was special in its own way.”
Williams recalled filming the pilot for “The Brady Bunch” and feeling “it as special in its own way.” (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
“And I thought, wow, this could be the start of something very memorable. And it felt like we were all coming together as a family. We had no idea what the future would hold, but I do remember feeling that that was – it was special in its own way,” he said.
Williams also loved driving to the set on the Paramount Studios lot, where they filmed the interiors of the Brady home along with other shows like “Star Trek,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Odd Couple, “Bonanza” and more.
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“I mean, this was a great place. There were movies. ‘The Godfather’ was being filmed there. And, you know, we snuck around. I snuck around, you know, in between takes and things like that on to all the sets and got to watch what was going on. And it was, I mean, it was like a magic land coming to life and a very exciting place to be.”
Whereas the inside of the Brady home was made up of a number of studio units, the outside was an actual residence situated in Studio Metropolis, California, constructed by architect Harry M. Londelius Jr. in 1959.
The house used for the exterior shots of “The Brady Bunch” home is located in Studio City, Calif. (Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images)
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Fans have made the house a destination, taking photographs of it so many times it’s often reported that it’s the second-most photographed home in America after the White House.
But the actual interior of the home did not match the one seen on television until 2018, when HGTV purchased the house and remodeled it on their series, “A Very Brady Renovation.”
They remodeled the house to match what was shown on TV, including adding a second floor to the originally one-story home.
“It was a set, it was a false environment. And then the house, all it was was an exterior. And through the renovation, we took both and made what was the set real, which I don’t think it’s ever been done before,” said Knight, who appeared on the renovation show with Williams and their onscreen siblings.
The “Brady Bunch” siblings participated in the HGTV series “A Very Brady Renovation” in 2018 when the network bought and remodeled the real house to make it match the way it looked on TV. (Matt Harbich)
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In 2023, lifelong fan Tina Trahan purchased the house from HGTV and has been adding even more details to replicate the “Brady Bunch” series.
Trahan told Fox News Digital she has “added about 300 things to the house that were like Easter eggs for the episodes” and bought three vintage cars, including the 73 Caprice Classic convertible that Greg and Marcia did their driving test on.
Williams said, “HGTV did a really remarkable job of exactly duplicating the show, this set. And then Tina has taken it to the next level because she’s adding all the touches that we couldn’t find or didn’t have time for, or outsourced. And she brought in what she refers to accurately as little Easter eggs for people that they can enjoy.”
Knight added, “And most importantly, besides the Easter eggs, she’s preserved the house, and by buying it and being true to it, being a fan of the shows and recognizing it as…a real live version of a doll house that was in all of our lives. And there is no other television show, I dare you to name me one, where all you have to see is a picture of like every single room, and you’ll know where it’s from. I mean, from the family room, the kitchen, the living room, the boys’ room and the girls’ room, each one of those is iconic and will be recognized immediately upon viewing it.”
Tina Trahan bought “The Brady Bunch” home in 2023 and began The Brady Expertise sweepstakes, permitting 5 winners to spend time inside the house and luxuriate in a brunch with the solid. (Courtesy Tina Trahan)
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Trahan is giving individuals the chance to reside out their “Brady Bunch” goals with The Brady Expertise, a sweepstakes that can choose 5 winners and their visitors to win a visit to Los Angeles and a keep in the home.
“So for the 55th anniversary, we decided we want fans in the house somehow, and we wanted to partner with a charity, so we’re partnered with No Kid Hungry, which helps childhood hunger in America,” she defined, including winners will get pleasure from a brunch with the “Brady Bunch” solid that can embody “pork chops and applesauce.”
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“For all those years, it was just the outside of the Brady house, it represented what was inside. Now it actually has inside what they saw on television. And unfortunately, nobody can see that,” Knight mentioned, noting that for years individuals have been solely allowed to go to the outside.
“So Tina devised a way to make it possible for some of the audience out there to win an opportunity actually to take it to work.”
Trahan added as many as 300 objects to match the look of the unique sequence for followers to get pleasure from after they enter the house. (Getty Pictures)
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“It’s a way to extend the legacy for a good purpose. It gives people a chance to see the inside and then serve a charity,” Williams added.
The present’s legacy lives on for the solid as properly, who share a novel connection.
“Outside of my own kin, Barry and the rest of the cast are my oldest friends, and we constantly cycle back to get back in touch with one another. And it’s sort of like being foxhole buddies,” Knight mentioned. “Not that I have any experience being in a foxhole or living through a war, but I can imagine how close one gets when one is experiencing something unique like that. And it’s very much a unique experience in that there’s nine of us that have this view, and the rest of the world is looking from outside into us.”
Williams added that they proceed to be taught new issues about one another by way of tasks like their “Real Brady Bros” podcast, the place they go over episodes intimately.
Knight mentioned he, Williams and the solid had such a “unique” expertise being part of “The Brady Bunch” that they are like “foxhole buddies.” (J. Strauss/FilmMagic)
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“It has given us an opportunity to get to know each other in-depth,” he mentioned.
Knight famous that “we’ve been getting the same questions for 55 years, but what’s interesting is how we answered it, how we process it and what we see in those questions is different over the years. So it’s like, even though it’s the same question, it’s not because of the longevity, the legacy that this show has created.”
“We constantly cycle back to get back in touch with one another. And it’s sort of like being foxhole buddies.”
And whereas most of their reminiscences of the present are optimistic, there’s the occasional irritation with the upper ups.
For instance, Knight recalled they used to should pay to park and stroll “an extra 20 minutes” to get to the set for the primary two years of the present.
Knight and Williams recalled some pay disputes within the early days of the present, together with Knight saying he and far of the kid solid have been written out of some episodes to save lots of on wage. (ABC Picture Archives/Disney Basic Leisure Content material by way of Getty Pictures)
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He additionally shared that primarily based on a “10 out of 13 deal” with the showrunners, he and his youthful co-stars, minus Williams, earned much less as a result of they’d be written out of three episodes to save lots of on salaries.
“The five of us were each in one episode in that second year written out of an episode, and they never tried that again because people did notice,” Knight mentioned. “It was harder for them to actually write us out than it was just to leave us in.”
Knight teased Williams that he was “too important” to put in writing out, whereas Williams in contrast it to “avoiding the draft.”
However the general optimistic nostalgia for his or her time on the present is being handed on to the following technology.
Williams mentioned he not too long ago visited the studio lot the place they filmed “The Brady Bunch” together with his daughter and shared a particular bonding second together with her. (Gilbert Flores/Selection by way of Getty Pictures)
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Williams not too long ago took his daughter, Samantha, to the Paramount lot and confirmed her a number of the areas the place he and his castmates frolicked, like dressing rooms and the studio college they attended (sadly, no unique units from the present stay standing).
He mentioned a good friend occurred to document the daddy and daughter taking the tour, and it was a significant second for Williams to look again on.
“I was explaining to her what it was, and I watched [the video] and I was struck by her attentiveness, how much she cared about it. She learned, she listened. And…she seemed to be able to get a part of an experience of my youth when I was not very far from her age, which is 12,” he mentioned.
Nevertheless, Williams mentioned he and his daughter don’t actually discuss in regards to the present or commonly watch it.
Williams mentioned his daughter is accustomed to “The Brady Bunch” however hasn’t watched a lot of it. (ABC Picture Archives/Disney Basic Leisure Content material by way of Getty Pictures)
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“I’ve asked her if she’s seen the show, and she says, ‘Yeah,’ she’s enough to be familiar with it,” he mentioned. “And also she’s been able to meet Chris, and so that’s a real person for her. But I don’t know. I really don’t know how many episodes she’s watching. She’s a young girl. I don’t want to bother with that stuff, [if] she picks it up, she picks it up. That’s great. And if not, that’s OK, too.”
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