If you watch TV and remember that your favorite characters are actors on the set, you may be wondering… where do TV stars come from go when climbing stairs?
Out of Full house To Everyone loves Raymond To The Nannythere’s no shortage of iconic sitcom sets with staircases prominently featured. And while we know on an intellectual level that DJ, Raymond, and Fran aren’t actually climbing to the second floor of a real house, many of us aren’t sure what happens when actors exit a scene via the stairs.
“Often the production designer will build an escape staircase outside the camera’s field of view so that the actors don’t have to twiddle their thumbs until ‘cut!’ is called,” Katie RobbinsCreator of the black comedy “AppleTV+” Sunnyrevealed exclusively in the new issue of We weekly“If not, there’s usually at least a chair waiting for them.”
However, this was not the case with the classic sitcom Three girls and three boyswhich aired from 1969 to 1974. Maureen McCormickwho played Marcia Brady once revealed that she and the actors playing her sisters and stepbrothers had to “huddle” together just out of sight as they walked up the stairs in the middle of a scene.
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“We went around a corner and huddled together – all six of us – and tried to hide so (the audience) wouldn’t see our shadows,” she said.
And what would McCormick, now 68, do while she waited for the scene to end?
“I flirted with the boys,” she said.
In a four-part film from 2019 Hidden potential Special entitled “A Very Brady Renovation,” HGTV star Jasmine Roth worked with the six real Brady “children” (played by McCormick, Eva Plumb, Susan Olsen, Barry Williams, Christopher Knight And Mike Lookinland) to remodel the Studio City home featured in the series’ exterior shots to recreate the popular interior sets.
Roth, 39, repeated McCormick’s story about the Brady Bunch Staircase in an interview about the renovation with The Orange County Register.
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“The Brady kids told me they ran up the stairs, turned the corner and then all ran together because they had nowhere to go,” she said. “The director yelled ‘Cut!’ and they came back down the stairs and went into the room, into the set, where the next scene was happening.”
Roth added that renovators had to move Greg Brady’s (Williams) iconic attic bedroom to the basement because the real house doesn’t have a second floor.
“We didn’t want to change the look of the house from the front, so we couldn’t add an attic because it’s a split-level house and on set it was set up like a two-story house,” she explained. “We ended up taking a basement room and turning it into Greg’s cool attic.”
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