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Alison Arngrim, who played in “Little House on the Prairie” when Nellie Oson, believes that there is an episode from the series that would not be done today.
In a recently carried out episode of the “Little House 50” The Podcast Arngrim spoke to host Pamela Bob and “Little House” Ko -Star Dean Butler about an episode from the fourth season of the show entitled “Here Come the Brides”, which was broadcast in 1977.
The episode tells the story of how Oson is overturned by Luke Simms, a young boy in the city. The two were fled after a short romance. After their parents found it out, they were brought back to the peace judges to be unmarried.
Alison Arngrim played in “Little House on the Prairie” as “evil” Nellie Oson. (NBCU Photo Bank/Nbcuniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Oleses said she was 15 years old when she shot the episode. Your character should be 13.
“I was great … teenagers [with] Puberty happens madness, “said Arngrim.” It is barely 13. This cat is, he plays 16, 17. He is in late 20th. “
Bob Marsic, who played Simms, was 22.
Alison Arngrim and actor Bob Marsic are married by an unidentified actor in the Elopement scene from the episode of the television series “Little House on the Prairie” with the title “Here come the Brides”, approx. 1977. (NBC Television/with the friendly approval of Getty Images)
“They are young girls – children – an adult man with whom they were not presented,” said Arngrim, how the characters reacted to Simms’ appearance.
“That wouldn’t happen today, right?” Asked Bob. “This threw an adult to play or even kissing-and it was an innocent kiss, but it is a kiss and minor.”
The filming was uncomfortable right from the start, remembered Arngrim and found that she had not hit her love interest on the screen before she started to film.
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Bob Marsic, who played Luke Simms, was 22nd Alison Arngrim was 15. (NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images)
“I think we kiss on the first day or something,” she said. “Maybe the second day two? It was pretty fast, it was like: ‘Hello, imagine, now you’re in love.’ ” “
Arngrim noticed that there would be no significant age gap between the young actors if a similar scene were turned today. An intimate coordinator who did not exist at this point would also be on the set.
The former child star described how Marsic at some point brought his girlfriend to the set while the episode was shot.
Alison Arngrim said she and her love interest on the screen kissed on the first day of filming in front of cameras. (NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images)
“It was another of the strange moments,” said Arngrim in the podcast. “His girlfriend appears and it was strange because it was so … this vague thing was that she wanted to be there for the romantic scenes.”
“I thought this woman believes that I was a threat?” She giggled. “Really? This 15-year-old girl? No. No. No. I’m not a threat to your relationship. I don’t get your husband.”
Melissa Gilbert and Alison Arngrim visit the Hollywood show on July 2, 2022 in Burank, California, at Hollywood Airport at Los Angeles Marriott Burrank Airport. (Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)
As early as June 2024, Butler spoke to Fox News Digital about how he had to struggle with fear after he had found that he would give his co-star, 15-year-old Melissa Gilbert, her first kiss-Sowohl on the screen as well as in real life.
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Butler was 23 years old when he was occupied on the popular TV show, which was broadcast from 1974 to 1983.
“You just couldn’t do it today,” said the actor, who played Almanzo Wilder in “Little House”, about Fox News Digital. “There would be far too much setback. It is noteworthy that we didn’t get more blowback than we … but I think it was treated so tastefully that people … forgot the age difference.”
“I think the audience has observed Melissa for years and loved her incredibly,” said Butler. “They wanted to see when they, so honestly and innocently, explained their love for this young man. She fell in love from the first time when she looked at him. The audience was ready to do exactly with it.”
Melissa Gilbert as Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder and Dean Butler as Almanzo James Wilder in “Little House on the Prairie”. (NBCU Photo Bank/Nbcuniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
According to Butler, the characters from the original book series should have an age difference of 10 years. He noticed that Gilbert had “complete trust” in her TV father, who carefully supervised the scene.
“It was a very powerful relationship that Melissa had in her life that she had with Michael Landon,” said Butler. “When Michael said: ‘This is the type for you’, she was ready to expose all her fears and just step into her. And Michael never led someone who was wrong in the series. He really had it down. He knew what he was doing. He believed very much in his creative instincts. He trusted that it would work.”
“I am only very grateful that I was the guy he believed that he could trust him,” added Butler.
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Dean Butler told Fox News Digital that he had great respect for Melissa Gilbert. (NBCU Photo Bank/Nbcuniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Nevertheless, both Butler and Gilbert had to overcome their fears to bring the scene to life.
“I think many young actresses might have folded under pressure,” said Butler. “Melissa had no experience. She had never been in a date. Never kissed. Never that.
The couple smooches As a result with the title “Sweet Sixteen”. Butler said that almost 100 people would have surrounded them on the set to make sure the shot was perfect.
Michael Landon can be seen here as he sees Dean Butler as Melissa Gilbert. (NBCU Photo Bank/Nbcuniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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“My job was to make it as easy as possible for her by really being the Lord for whom I grew up,” said Butler. “Since then there has been no casting combination like what you did with us. This casting could never happen today. Certainly not in a mainstream television program.”
