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“I said, ‘I’m just not going to comment.
I’m just going to let it be because I want them to have their own thing.
And if they need me later, we’ll talk about it,'” Gilbert tellsEntertainment Weekly.
Matthew Laborteaux, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Dean Butler, Melissa Sue Anderson, Linwood Boomer, Karen Grassle, and Lindsay/Sidney Greenbush in ‘Little House on the Prairie’.Credit:NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
“Did you watch the original?
Have you seen the episode ‘The Wisdom of Solomon’?
I don’t think we get more woke than that,” Gilbert continues.
Melissa Gilbert and Todd Bridges in the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ episode ‘The Wisdom of Solomon’.NBC/Peacock
I mean, we covered everything that’s going on in the world still.
“These are classic stories, and no one’s done it where they hewed to the books completely.
And I think there’s plenty of room for that.
And I think there’s a lot of other stories to mine beyond that.
I mean, God love the Jewish men who played them on our show.
I loved them dearly.
I myself, being the Jewish Half-Pint, totally understood it.
But bring them in.
Tann, the actual Black doctor who treated the Ingalls family.
Bring all of these people in and tell the story.”
Little House on the Prairieis streaming now on Peacock.
