“Little House on the Prairie”'s Alison Arngrim Says 'None of Us' from the Cast Were Asked to Cameo on the Reboot

Members of the original cast of Little House on the Prairie are reacting to news of the upcoming reboot.

After Netflix announced that a new Little House on the Prairie series was in the works, fans wondered how it would compare to its predecessor. Alison Arngrim, who played Nellie Oleson from 1974 until 1982, recently shared how she feels about the revival with ReMIND.

“It’s not really like a reboot, they’re not going back to Walnut Grove,” she explained. “They’re not going to have Doc Baker and Miss Beadle, and they’re certainly not going to have Al Burton and all the people who were made up for the show. It is going back to the books.”

“This [show] is part of the Laura Ingalls Wilder multiverse,” Arngrim continued, speaking of the author of the novel that inspired the initial adaptation. “So concerns that they’re going to run amok away from the books and make it into something weird — not happening. [Friendly Family Productions] will pull the plug on it before anything like that happens.”

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As for whether fans would be seeing any familiar faces in the new show, Arngrim said it doesn’t seem to be in the cards right now.

“None of us, as far as I know, our gang, are in at this point,” she revealed, noting she is still open to the idea. “I have been joking for years that I’m finally old enough to play Mrs. Oleson, so call me!”

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Although they haven’t been asked back, there don’t seem to be any hard feelings. Dean Butler, who played Almanzo Wilder on the original series, even told the outlet he received a call from Trip Friendly, head of Friendly Family Productions and son of original Little House producer Ed Friendly, to let him know the news before it came out publicly.

“There have been so many different announcements about reboots or re-imaginings,” he said. “But this had a different feel to it. This felt like this was really real.”

Rachel Lindsay Greenbush, who started on the original when she was just 3 years old, said she has nothing but positive feelings about the news.

“I think it’s great,” she shared. “I think with social media, we tend to think of ourselves more as individuals — and in the story of the series and the books, it’s more about community as a whole, and your neighbor. And I think that’s needed more today.”

“A lot of the fans have really craved more historical content in the story,” she explained. “I can’t wait to see it come out, I can’t wait to watch it.”

Butler, however, admitted he would be lying if he said he didn’t worry about the impact the reboot will have on the fandom.

“One of the first feelings, in all honesty, is probably, well, ‘If this works, are they going to forget about what we did all those years ago?’” he said. “And then the next thought is, ‘It’s going to be very difficult to create something that touches people’s hearts in the way that the original did.'”

“It’s never going to be what Michael [Landon] did,” he said of the original series creator. “Michael was Michael. He was a unique creative presence with this magical touch with an audience. And look, the creative team on the new show may also have a magical touch with an audience, but it’s a different touch and it will be different.”

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Little House is the kind of show that stands the test of time, Arngrim later acknowledged, so when it comes to a reboot, she said it is inevitable for viewers to have high expectations and mixed feelings.

“It’s going to be hard,” she said. “I feel great sympathy, because I know that no matter how brilliant all of these actors could be … they’re going to get compared, by some viewers and certainly by press, to Michael Landon and some poor little girl’s going to get compared to Melissa Gilbert.”

“There are many properties that do get remade with whole new cast and whole new looks and whole new ways of looking at it quite successfully,” she added. “And we often find, ‘Oh, that one didn’t work. That one wasn’t good. Oh, I really like this one better than that one.’ So as strange as it may sound, Laura Ingalls’ books and Little House on the Prairie may be one of those things that is eternal and it’s just going to keep happening.”

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