CBS killed a Brady Bunch revival and it's all thanks to Cindy Brady actor Susan Olsen's political views. Olsen recently claimed on the Walk Away Campaign podcast that CBS axed the revival due to her support of Donald Trump, her controversial views on Covid vaccines and the LGBTQ+ community. However, that’s not the whole story.
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It never got past early stages by the time Olsen made her comments, which effectively stopped it from moving forward. The series would have followed the Brady Bunch children as adults. Olsen’s Cindy, the youngest Brady sibling, was going to be a libertarian podcaster, the actor revealed.
“I did have a phone call with my [TV] siblings and my agent,” Olsen said on the podcast. She added: “Everybody was saying, ‘We’re sorry, but they just won’t budge. They just will not have you in this.
’ I was like, ‘Wow, I’ve been canceled.’ A role that I’ve played for over 50 years, I can’t play it .