The Brady Bunchis a staple of American television. You either watched it on TV Land reruns, watched it as it aired, or know the lore thanks tomovies likeThe Brady Bunch Moviefrom 1995 — which really was a staple of parody film making (and a history lesson for those unaware ofThe Brady Bunchas a television show). Now, the cast of the 1969 series has reunited to talk a bit about their characters, who was the most like themselves, and more. At a panel at The Chocolate Expo,Barry Williamsopened up about trying to beboth Greg Brady and himself.
Williams was there with his fellow castmatesChristopher McKnight, Susan Olsen, andMike Lookinlandto recount workingtogether on the series. There, Williams said that trying to separate himself from Greg was hard. “It was impossible to juggle the two identities, so I just combined them. And the truth is, there’s not that much difference,” Williams said on the panel.
“I mean, what you see with Greg was a guy that hadyounger brothers and sisters.I feel likethis is my family. You see somebody who’s trying to make things work, trying to walk the line, trying to go on, trying to be a good person.”
He went on to sharesome of the little thingsthat made him different from Greg. “I never once played ball on the house. I never oncethrew a football at my sister’s nose. I never lost to my sister in a driving contest that was so late.That was so fake. I never would have lost if it wasn’t written in the script,” he joked on the panel.
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Prompted by Williams' confession, both ofhis fictional brotherstalked about themselves in comparison to their characters. McKnight, who played Peter Brady said, “There wasn’t a difference between Peter and Chris. They were both finding themselves.” Lookinland, who played Bobby and was the youngest Brady boy, said that gave him an advantage because he “got off easy” as a young actor. “I was lucky in that the character, the role of Bobby,just meant me coming to work every day and just being a kid.”
But Lookinland did say that some of Bobby’s antics didn’t align with things that he’d do. “Bobby, did some goofy things for the gag, for the comedy, you know, for the sitcom sketch effect. Bobby did some things that Mike Lookinland probably wouldn’t have done, at least not in public,” he explained. “Bobby did some things that maybe Mike Lookinland didn’t think were cool, but I got off easy because I was a kid going to workevery day being a happy-go-lucky kid, on- and off-camera.”
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