Eve Plumb will forever be known as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch, but the former child star had a successful acting career both before and after the 1970s sitcom.
In a new interview, Plumb, 68, admitted that she wished more fans knew her from Fudge, a short-lived children’s series she appeared in in the 1990’s.
“That would be great,” Plumb said in an interview with Houston Public Media. “I wish Fudge had lasted a little bit longer. I love doing Fudge, but Disney bought ABC, so they had their own Saturday morning content, but Fudge was great.”
The series, which aired on ABC’s Saturday morning schedule for two short seasons in 1995, was based on the Judy Blume book series of the same name. Plumb admitted she wasn’t aware of the book franchise when she auditioned for the part as mom Anne Hatcher.
“I didn't know Fudge when I went to went into audition,” Plumb shared. “It was a last-minute audition, and I went in, and I had like a couple seconds with the script, and so I'm a pretty good cold read, so I was like, 'Okay, I get it. It's mom and a kid, I think.’ I said, ‘Okay, I'm sorry. Um, is Fudge a friend from outer space or no?’ ‘He's your three-year-old son.’ Oh, okay. Great. Got it. Go!”
Plumb, who was known for her long blonde hair on The Brady Bunch, wasn’t always recognized on the Fudge show.
“And I had also dyed my hair dark brown, which made me very happy because right about that time I never got recognized and it made me relax a lot more in public, and so I got cast as a brunette,” she said. “It was great.”
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Blume, who was one of the most beloved and prolific children's book writers of the 1970s and ‘80s, didn’t have quite as fond memories of the TV show about the young character in her book series.
“There's a TV series from the Fudge books,” she told January magazine in an interview. “That was an emotionally difficult experience. … Emotional and frustrating. Because you know, they said they needed my input desperately. So we went out there and stayed for several months and they wouldn't let me anywhere near it. It was terrible. I was referred to as the writer of the original material. It was a great lesson in surviving a degrading, humiliating experience.”
“Wanting to work with and participate and having been invited and then shoved aside. It was really pretty bad," she added.
Blume did credit the cast for their work on the series.
“I loved the cast,” she said. “The cast was really lovely. The children were wonderful. The set direction was incredible. I couldn't believe what they were able to build on a lot. The brilliant creative stuff was fun, in that way. I just wanted it to be so good. And I just thought it could be so different. Everybody is always in a hurry. You know, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. So I was disappointed.“
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