Melissa Gilbert had a memorable nickname throughout her days on the set of Little Home on the Prairie — and it was all thanks to at least one costar.
The actress, 60, appeared on The View on Tuesday, Feb. 11, the place she reminisced about her time on the beloved western sequence. Starting from the time she was 10, Gilbert stated she has lots of reminiscences from the set that formed her childhood.
“I’ve been fascinated about it loads lately as a result of it’s simply kind of within the ambiance and the one factor that retains popping in my head was the primary day of filming on the pilot when Michael Landon got here as much as me and he stated, ‘Do you will have a nickname as a result of there’s two Melissas now,’” she recalled, referencing Melissa Sue Anderson. “And I stated, ‘I don’t.’ And he stated, ‘Nicely, what nickname would you like?’”
“‘I stated, ‘Really, I want to be referred to as ‘Moishe,’” she continued, referring to the Hebrew title sometimes given to males. “And he stated, ‘What? Why Moishe?’ And I stated, ‘I heard it at residence, it’s a cool title proper?’ He stated, ‘No. You aren’t Moishe. You aren’t an previous Jewish man. We’re going to name you Half Pint.’ And I’ve been Half Pint ever since!”
Gilbert additionally reacted to the current information that Netflix has a Little Home on the Prairie reboot within the works, saying, “I help the challenge.”
“I cherished being a part of [the original], and I do assume there’s room within the Little Home universe for different interpretations,” she added.
Gilbert stated she truly didn’t plan on talking concerning the revival till she heard concerning the feedback former speak present host Megyn Kelly made.
In Kelly’s submit on X, she shared a hyperlink to a narrative from The Hollywood Reporter concerning the Netflix reboot and seemingly addressed the streamer: “When you wokeify Little Home on the Prairie I’ll make it my singular mission to utterly wreck your challenge.”
Gilbert, nevertheless, was greatly surprised by her remark. “When she stated that, it shocked me as a result of it’s a must to have watched Little Home on the Prairie to know what you’re speaking about,” she stated on The View. “I imply, the present, the tales we informed…”
“Have been woke then!” cohost Sunny Hostin chimed in.
“Yeah! We have been a mirrored image of what was occurring in America in 1974 via the lens of 1874, and in lots of methods we’re nonetheless there,” Gilbert famous.
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In January, Gilbert took to her personal social media to answer Kelly’s message, writing: “Apparently Megyn tweeted (I’m not on that platform) asking that Netflix not ‘woke-ify’ their Little Home remake. Umm…watch the unique once more. TV would not get an excessive amount of extra ‘woke’ than we did.”
“We tackled: racism, habit, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and each different ‘woke’ matter you may consider. Thanks very a lot,” Gilbert added.
Within the caption of the submit, she inspired Kelly, 54, to “watch any episode on any streaming platform anyplace on the planet” of the unique sequence, which ran from 1974 to 1983.
