John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, and Laurie Metcalf have finally shared their thoughts on Roseanne Barr’s departure from the show Roseanne, which is now a spin-off series titled The Conners. It’s been four months and the whole cast has remained pretty much silent when their costar, Roseanne, was kicked off the show by ABC due to a racist tweet about a former White House advisor.
Turns out that the cast is actually pretty grateful that the controversy ended up leading to a spinoff series for them. Goodman was the first to speak up, saying, “There was the feeling of not wanting it to go away until we were ready. There was a debt owed to this fictional family. We want to finish telling this story.”
Goodman added that he was actually in his kitchen when his daughter or wife informed him of the tweet. “It just didn’t seem true. Then it got true. I was consciously trying to accept it,” he said.
Gilbert was the next to chime in and reveals she was just trying to take it step by step and not jump to conclusions about anything. “It was more just, ‘Okay, what are we dealing with today?’ I was just kind of taking things one step at a time as they came,” she said.
Metcalf was in New York City performing on Broadway when the news broke. “And I [first] thought, ‘Oh, I wonder if we still have a show.’ Because of how heavy everything became,” she revealed, unfortunately assuming the worst about their show and, specifically, their livelihoods.
It seems apparent that the three core cast members were struggling to accept what had happened in addition to finding hope for the show’s future. None of them had a clue about what would happen in terms of the show continuing, possibly without Roseanne or not at all. Metcalf was the first to admit she had to ‘reconcile herself to the show being gone’. “It was hard to wrap our heads around,” she said.
When the idea of a spinoff series was mentioned, the cast members were apparently hesitant. They took the risk, despite their apprehensiveness, with hope for the future of the show. “There was a lot of risk involved, but we all decided as a group to take the risk, knowing that we could be judged by deciding to come back,” said Metcalf.
All three cast members have stated that they are grateful to Roseanne, in particular, for allowing the cast to continue on with the spinoff series.
“That was a very big deal to give us a chance,” says Goodman.
Nope. I can’t watch it. I am angry that this country has become so full of snowflakes that no one can say anything without it being a life changing, and often life destroying event. I am angry, and this did not have to happen. People need to grow a backbone again, and realize that not everyone has to like, approve of, or be nice ALL THE TIME.
Someone didn’t like my comment about who fired Roseanne, and removed my post right in front of my face.
agree with you 100%
LOL
Won’t watch it. TV is dead to me…
I will never watch this show with out her she never meant anyone harm i hate that they got rid of her
There are a few on TV now that should be cancelled.
Annnnnd The Cosby show is still on TV !! So…..that means, A Convicted Drugging Rapist, Registered Sex Offenders show still gets to be played on TV, and Roseanne gets wiped off all of TV???? the hypocrocy is freaking insane !!!
WILL NOT WATCH THIS SHOW EVER!
SAY IT AGAIN!
If Roseanne’s character is dead…then all of them are dead to me… will not watch any form of a re-boot of this show with out it’s STAR! It’s main star…
i liked it Roseanne i that it was in good thing about the pain killer my brother had the same happen to him
So you’re angry that someone got fired for saying racist things? Wow, that’s really telling about what kind of person you are.
Instead of regurgitating debunked talking points, why not do your own research so you don’t make such a fool of yourself. The last channel that was airing Cosby reruns pulled it once he was convicted. So, nope, no hypocrisy whatsoever, but congrats for trying to defend a racist?
Except no court convicted Roseanne of ANYTHING. Cosby’s shows should have been thrown out at the get go just like hers was.
You mean like the color of a Starbucks cup or saying ‘Happy Holidays’ instead of ‘Merry Christmas’?
I am not watching the new show.
It’s good to see their first thoughts were about if they were going to have a job left to go to instead of what they could do to help or get help for Rosanne, the person whose show gave them their jobs.