During his first podcast interview, with his ex Step by step daughters Staci Keanan and Christine Lakin at their rewatch group Keanan and Lakin give you Déjà Vu, Patrick Duffy gave an extensive interview looking back on his successful television career.
As they touched on his 80s favourite Dallas and breakthrough in the 70s The man from Atlantisof course they wanted to talk about everything step by step, also.
The 90s sitcom was like “a new era of The Brady Bunch,” Duffy, 75, told of the series that followed him as Frank Lambert and Suzanne Somers as his wife, Carol Lambert, plus their blended family of six children.
He recalled meeting the late Somers for the first time, briefly when they were both offered roles on the spot without even auditioning. And from there they just clicked … almost too well.
Keanan noted that some viewers have called the show “hot” since it ended in 1998.
Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers on ‘Step by Step’ in 1994.
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I couldn’t believe anyone would say that, she said. “I thought, ‘What are they talking about? Our show is a very wholesome and sweet family show.’ ” But, she remarked, “I’m starting now [re]I’m watching the show…”
Duffy replied with a laugh, “It’s not that we demanded it. But we always stood for the fact that these two families came together because we, on a whim, on vacation, got married after knowing each other for two days,” he noted. is about the plot. “And it wasn’t because we were both good at poker. So whenever we could, we wanted to go up, but we couldn’t because we had a house full of kids, you know. And they wrote it… .. and we played on it.”
However, this was not necessarily a bad thing, he added. “We thought it was important. We could be suitably attracted to each other and also good parenting models.”
Duffy noted that the show is currently quite popular in Europe, and that both there and in the United States, “I’ve had people come up to me and say that watching that show was essential for them as a kid, wanting, if not I Don’t Have One, a dad like that,” he said. about his character. “A young man came up and said, ‘I’ve been watching the show and ever since I started watching the show when I was young, I’ve said, I want to be that kind of dad. I want to have that kind of dad and then I want to be that kind of dad if I ever have kids.’ So we fulfilled a certain function, you know, and I’m sure they felt that way about Suzanne,” he continued.
Although he liked the core of the series, Duffy said there was one plot point he balked at.
Patrick Duffy says Dallas The actors would start each morning with champagne — and end with shots of tequila
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The cast of ‘Step by Step’ in 1996.
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“I had a disagreement [with the writers] when Suzanne wanted to get pregnant,” he recalled. “I thought it was irresponsible. I thought, we’re a family with six children of a woman who was theoretically a beautician — but we never saw her work after the first two seasons — and a struggling entrepreneur.”
“And,” he continued to Keanan and Lakin, “you had more fashion clothes than a runway model! And I thought, that sends the wrong message. And I told them that, and they said, ‘Stay in your lane.’ And I went back to my room.”
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“We had brilliant writers,” he added, noting that he never made a pitch Dallas and never made a Step by step suggestion again. Besides, he said, Somers wanted a story. (Lilly, their daughter, joined the series in Season 4.)
“She didn’t really want another child on the show that much,” Duffy explained. “She just thought she could fake it, being pregnant, and she could. It’s a funny thing that she…does all that stuff with Lucille Ball. She was in heaven, it made her happy. So I was good.”
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