Jimmie Walker said he had never spoken to these co-stars "good times"
"We have never been friends. We never talked about," the actor said one day.
Evans family membersGood time All had very different personalities, but they always gathered to cross difficult situations. In real life, however, the stars ofThe 1970s sitcom It was not as tight as they appeared on the screen.Jimmie Walker, who played the character of Breakout J.J., said that, as regards two other members of the main distribution, he barely knew anything, they "never talked", and they were " never friends ".
Walker, now 75 years old, played on the series for the Six Seasons, from 1974 to 1979, as a child Evans. J.J. was a painter, obsessed with women, and always saying his slogan "Dy-No-Mite!" He also frequently annoyed his family members, including the younger brother Michael (Ralph Carter), sister Thelma (Bern Nadette Stanis)),, And parents in Florida (Esther Rolle) and James (John Amos). But when the cameras did not drive, this family bond was apparently not there. Read the rest to see what Walker has had to say about this tension over the years.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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Walker and two other distribution members did not speak when the cameras did not drive.
In an interview with Academy television in 2017, Walker said thatHe did not speak to Rolle or Amos When they were not on the set.
"I will honestly say that I don't remember saying a word to Esther all the time that she was there," Walker said. Rolle, who died in 1998, appeared in the first four seasons of the show, jumped season 5 and returned for the last season.
"I think the same thing goes for John [Amos]," continued Walker. "We are talking anymore now, a little, but very, very little. We have never been friends. We never talked about it. If you said it at that time:" Call Esther and ask him ... "I wouldn't even have his number. I couldn't have called John. I wouldn't have had his number. We never talked about it. Only on the set."
Rolle thought that the character of Walker has perpetuated harmful stereotypes.
Walker did not explain exactly why he did not get closer to Rolle and Amos, but it is well documented that the two co-stars had strong feelings about J.J. When the show was still broadcast,Ebony published a story On the problems between distribution and production, in particular with regard to the representation of their black characters. Rolle challenged the comic role of J.J.
"He is 18 years old and he does not work. He cannot read and write. He does not think," said Rolle about J.J. "The show did not start to be that. [The character of Ralph Carter ] The role of Michael ... of a brilliant and thinking child has been subtly reduced ... I feel the imagery that says to the black children that you can do it by standing by saying: "Dy-no-mite!" »»
Amos was not a fan of the character either.
Amos was released from the program after the third season due to a dispute with production on money and other problems, according toEbony. Like rolle, he toohad a problem with J.J.
"They chose to go for the evidence and the comic. It started to dissipate in something I was not very proud of," Amos told Vulture in 2015. "I thought there was A little too much buffoonery. And it was not a jealous of [Jimmie Walker]. I love the actors; I like anyone could make someone laugh. But in the same way, I had these two other children of the family, and I felt that it did not do a bad service and did not do a bad service and did not do a bad service and did not hurt them and the image Young people to say: "You don't really matter. We are more interested in seeing J.J. with a chicken hat. That's at least that I saw him."
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Walker respected Rolle and Amos as an actor.
In his interview with Academy television, Walker praised his television parents as an actor.
"These are all very good actors, I do not remove anything from their talent," he said. "Their talent is huge." When he was asked if he liked to play with them, he said, "I don't think" to appreciate it "is the word. I think I enjoyed their talents. John is a big actor. . I think it was just this show, this situation was against everything he believed. "
Walker continued, "he was greatRoots, he was great in[The west wing. If he had had the same attitude with us, I think we would have been in good shape. ""
Walker thinks that the show could have worked longer.
Walker applied that the show could have continued for more seasons if the actors were on the same wavelength.
"We went through a huge adversity for four and a half years, anything," he said. "If we had had a kind of type, I love it, I don't know how long we could have left. I think they killed the goose who laid the golden egg."
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The former actors met decades later.
In 2014, in his own interview with Academy television,Amos spoke of bringing together With Walker at an event for fans.
"Recently, we had our second meeting, and there was a major autograph show in Parsippany, New Jersey," he said. "And it was the first time in 40 years that Jimmy, Ralph Carter, who played my youngest son Michael, Bern Nadette Stanis was there ... It was wonderful after all these years, 40 years of work with this family To find them with them it was a good feeling. "
Amos, now 82, also said to work onGood time, "Of course, we had creative differences like all the members of the distribution do about each project in which you are involved, but nothing that defeated the goal of the show. He has always proven to be a funny show. ""
Surviving distribution members have also gathered for aLive in front of a studio audience special forGood time in 2019. While Mos was part of the reconstruction of the episode, Walker, Stanis, andJa'net Dubois, who played Willona, were there as a special guests.
