Susan Olsen made sure sacrifices when she starred as Cindy Brady for half a decade on “The Brady Bunch.”
Olsen was on The Chocolate Expo’s panel along with her “Brady Bunch” co-stars, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland and Barry Williams, when she revealed that she needed to dye her hair blonde each three weeks to take care of Cindy’s look.
Based on Individuals, a fan requested Olsen if she needed to dye her hair to star as Cindy. Olsen was 7 when she took on the function.
“You bet. Every three weeks they had to dye my hair. If you look at the third season, my hair is kind of a different shade of blonde every episode,” Olsen mentioned.
Since she was placing her hair by means of a lot, it started to fall out.
“They were trying out different things, but then my hair had started to fall out. With that, I went back to letting my mom do my hair, every Friday night.”
Cindy Brady’s signature curls didn’t come naturally to Olsen both.
“I had to keep it rollers because my hair was straight. It couldn’t hold a curl unless I slept in them. But my mother was responsible for those ringlets,” she mentioned.
“In 1970, trying different things meant a whole cocktail of weird chemicals, right?” she requested earlier than Lookinland chimed in.
“All I had was Miss Clairol, Jet Black number 23. I remember the little bottle and it said ‘jet black,’” he mentioned.
“I was ‘classic blonde,’” Olsen mentioned of her character’s hair colour.
Individuals reported that Olsen and her fellow co-stars additionally mirrored extra typically on their time on the hit present, with Olsen saying “the love was genuine” between all of the co-stars.
“I know for me, and I might be speaking for the others, but they can chime in, that Bob and Florence were in a position for us to want to do this,” Knight mentioned, referring to Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, who performed the Brady kids’s on-screen dad and mom, Mike and Carol.
He continued, “We didn’t want to disappoint them. And that’s at the center of a good parent relationship: a child that doesn’t want to disappoint their parents because of respect. And it was reciprocated, but that is because of the respect we had for them.”
“The Brady Bunch” aired from 1969 to 1974. The present starred Henderson and Reed as Carol and Mike Brady, who shared a blended household of three boys and three women from earlier marriages.
The sitcom adopted the household’s life, showcasing adventures and extra.
