"Married ... with children" star says that there is "no lost love" with Ed O'Neill
The tension of Marcy d'Arcy and Al Bundy was not only on the screen.
OnMarried to children, the characters Marcy d'Arcy and Al Bundy did not get along - and in real life, the actors who played them either. While in the show, the entries between neighbors al and Marcy limited themselves to the snipes between them, but for the starsEd O'NeillandAmanda Bearse, the tension was more serious and included battles on platform and wedding invitation snobs.
BearSe and O'Neill both talked about their not so friendly relationship and their differences, Bearse saying once there was "no lost love" between them. Read the rest to see why the sitcom co-stars of the 90s have never heard.
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O'Neill said he was getting along with Bearse at the start.
In an interview with the American television archives in 2013,O'Neill spoke of His relationship with Bearse and said they got along at first.
"We all get along very well," said O'Neill about theMarried to children cast. "The only one with which I don't get along - and I don't think I'm the only one - is Amanda. I don't know what happened there, because it was wonderful for three years. She was great. I don't know who it was. We are just a little separated ... Maybe I reminded her of someone she didn't like, an uncle or something. ""
He added that he thought that Bearse, who is a lesbian, "changed" when she became "more masculine".
"I must say that when she started, she was gay - she had been gay for a long time - she was more or less the couple's wife," said O'Neill. "She was very, very feminine and cute ... The change took place where she was the most masculine of the two ... While she was becoming more masculine, she became a little more sarcastic. She could grow a tooth , as we say. "
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Bearse did not invite him to his wedding.
In the interview, O'Neill shared that Bearsers did not invite him orDavid Faustino, who played Bud at her marriage, because she believed that they would laugh at two women wearing tuxedos in a church.
O'Neill confronted her not to be invited. "I said:" Amanda, what's funny about two women in the tuxedo walking in the church aisle? "I started to laugh and she said:" You see! "I said:" Well, you know why, because it is [explanive] funny, and I will not be the only one not to Thinking about it. But it was funny. She had a little white tuxedo - for me, I thought it was funny. So, in other words, she may not be wrong to exclude me. "
He also told a story about a fight.
O'Neill said that he and Bearsus have once fought for "something stupid" in the makeup room on the set. "And she said something about" you are an intimidator "or something and I said:" Well, you are miserable. "It was just bad - in front of everyone. And then I said:" You know, you are not very brilliant, it's your problem. "She was brilliant ... But in a way, she weren't it! "AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
O'Neill then explained to Bearse that he had control of the series, because it could continue without her, but not without him. "I have a button that I can press, this button says:" Get rid of Amanda Bearse. "You don't have a button that says" get rid of Ed O'Neill ". Your button does not work," he recalls having said it. "Now it was a nasty thing to say. I was never going to press this button, but it was true!"
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Bearse shared its side of history.
During a fans agreement in Raleigh, in North Carolina, in 2018,Bearsus was requested On his relationship with O'Neill. She started: "I'm the Thumper's rule: if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."
She continued: "I will share, he was not happy with the end of the series, so that affected everything. And that is, really, why the show did not go with a grand final. The company was not really sure, if we were going to come back for a season 12. "
Bearse, who is also a director, said that she was directing many episodes towards the end of the show's race - she has done 31 in total - which "made my work a little different" and did it speak more. She added: "I had a little more to say about things. And so that when they did not go well, I would say:" It's not ok. "So no love lost there. Yeah. Large actor, big actor."
She also mentioned the tension in another interview.
In an interview in 2020 withThe Fayetteville observer,, Bearse talked about "Discord" On the set, but did not mention O'Neill by name.
"Often, well and towards the end, it was not as pleasant," she said about how she was heard on the set. "You spend so much time with anyone, you are going to have good and good days. And it is in a way why the series ended up surpassing, just because there was a discord."
Bearse added that she was in contact with the co-star Christina Applegate , who played Kelly. "I am one of his most formidable fans," said Bearse. She continued: "I am always very good friends with David Garrison , the actor who played my first husband. And then I also saw Ted McGinley [Who has played her second husband] in recent years, and it has been a delicious experience. ""
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