Mindy Cohn did not maintain again any punches as to the explanation why a Info of Life reboot by no means occurred. And he or she’s blaming a “grasping b*tch” of a co-star.
The 58-year-old actress shared the sentiment throughout an look on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live present, the place she recounted how the thought of a revival first got here to be. As she tells it, it was the late Norman Lear who got here up with the thought following the success of Stay in Entrance of a Studio Viewers: The Info of Life.
“We had all by no means actually talked about it, however all of us began to contemplate it just a little bit and we bought into talks and we employed a author and the 4 of us bought collectively on Zooms,” Cohn mentioned. “This was throughout COVID, and we had conferences with Norman about it.”
Info of Life, which aired for 9 seasons between 1979 and 1988, adopted the housemother of a dormitory at a non-public all-girls college in Peekskill, New York. The collection, a derivative of Diff’hire Strokes, starred Cohn, the late Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields and Nancy McKeon.
However the reboot by no means got here to be. And as Cohn describes it, it “was not cute” as a result of “there was drama.” Cohn would not title the co-star, however she assured everybody it wasn’t her however “one of many ladies.”
“[She] went behind our backs and tried to make a separate deal for a derivative only for herself and devastated the remainder of us who all of us, you already know, I had booked Palm Royale, one other woman is working,” Cohn continued. “I am simply saying it was for a 40-year friendship and sisterhood, there was a tidal wave of emotion round it.”
Cohn added, “Grasping b*tch. I will say it.”
The ordeal, Cohn says, led her to have “no want to ever work collectively.” As for any likelihood of a revival, Cohn is adamant that “it’s totally lifeless.” In essence, she says, they’ve all reached some extent of no return.
“A few individuals cannot transfer previous it, do not need to transfer previous it. We aren’t as united. Let me put it that method,” she mentioned. “We had been united for 40 years over not speaking about one another, not doing soiled, not, you already know, all for one, one for all, and this type of wrecked that, which is unhappy. Actually unhappy.”
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