Which is far from enough money to crucify herself with "Marcia Marcia Marcia". Not only did I think her response was hilarious, I also think she was right because she's not a trained seal
"merrypeary" It is easy to criticize her but probably most anyone who would have experienced what she has as an actor would be doing the same if not acting even more overtly bitter.
Right. I would be excited to be a star and that I'm on a talk show where people are interested in me. Plus making several thousand dollars to be on the talk show.
MICHAEL DAVIS Very good! People in the comments section seem to be wondering why she'd even come on the show if she's so disinterested. Let's be honest - most people wouldn't reject a fairly easy pay day of a few thousand dollars to be on a talk show now-and-again (I'm assuming she earned appearance fees that day?). I'm not sure how she earns her living now-a-days, but getting another decent pay day should be motivation enough. She doesn't necessarily have to be that starved for the money either! That being said, she might have been a little bit more cooperative than she was ALTHOUGH I understand her not wanting to be too bothered in public. Also, she might be the type that doesn't care to continue re-living the past and prefers to look forward. So, I can see her point of view BUT if she agreed to do the show, she should probably be at least a little bit more approachable and cooperative for the talk show's sake, any way. Do you agree (any one else?)?
I totally get her annoyance being asked the same questions over and over for (at the time this was done) 20+ years, but if it bothers you so much, then perhaps you shouldn't be doing talk shows
That was my thought watching this. Clearly, this is a "retro-spective" because I see the actress who played Punky Brewster on one side of Eve, and Emmanuel Lewis (Webster) on the other side. She certainly does seem frustrated and fed up, not pleasant at all.
Eve shouldn't have even agreed to come on the show. In other interviews she's hinted that she truly fancied herself an actress, not that she wasn't. But I get the feeling that she thinks her talent as an actress were far greater then anyone was willing to acknowledge. And I think she blames Brady Bunch for it. Call it whatever you want, but it sure seems like bitterness to me.
I have to disagree with those who are so understanding of her hostility. She came on this show, and these are fans of the show, and she is being rather rude to them. Why not indulge their questions and brighten up their day?
I agree with you on that. She wasn't on a show to discuss paintings she was on the show because she was Jan Brady. Just like the other actors. And as someone in the public we all are nostalgic for those shows we watched and those actors become real to us. So I get why she wants to be an adult and move on with her life. But she has so much resentment for the role she played maybe it's because it limited her not sure. But she needs to get to a point where she's okay with being a Brady. She needs to let all the anger go and she needs to get past her issues with Marsha they were little kids teenagers when things were said and done, we've all said stupid things when we were kids.
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I think if people like Eve or Tina Louise really took the time to reflect on how much joy they brought to people (especially children), they may change their views.
100% agree. The happy news to report is that Eve Plumb has finally realized exactly what you said. She’s done a surprising 180 and appreciates all the memories now.
Yes, I do indeed sympathize with trying to move on with her life and not be Jan Brady forever. BUT, why did she agree to be on the show then? Why did she do the shows "A Very Brady Christmas," "Brady Brides" and "The Bradys?" You can't have it both ways.
She actually said on 'The Brady Bunch Exposed' documentary that she at first said no to 'The Brady Brides', but she wasn't really doing anything at the time and they later increased the amount of money they were offering her and she finally said yes.
That is what she is remembered for like it or not, and if I were her I'd be appreciative that my work was considered so outstanding that people are still fascinated by me and my character decades later!
She has the loveliest smile. I can see how inane Brady questions can get under your skin when you're trying to promote a "current" career-but that's what she's famous for and I would suggest it's better to embrace the love than run the other way.
I think Maureen would have gladly reenacted, “Oof, my nose!” Cheer up, Eve. Most of us have never achieved celebrity. You should be happy that you once did. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
Why did she even agree to go on the talk show? She clearly knew she was there for nostalgia like the other guests that were asked on the show. She is a very bitter person. So sad.
Jan, as a child you wished you had no brothers and sisters because you were going through that privacy phase. Cindy told you the plan to be nice to you until you got over your problem and then they could forget about you again! LOLing! Are you happy now that everybody has long since forgotten you? Careful what you wish for Jan. Careful what you wish for.
Just reading your comment after 5 years but you're right the true actress on the show was Florence Henderson... Eve Plumb was just a random actress looking for some work
I know that all the Brady Bunch Actors and Actresses resented playing "goodie two shoes roles" as children, but as Adults all of them should be honored to have played children with good in them. With today's broken families, drugs, road rage, and school shootings the Brady Bunch Family loving style with children with good in them is refreshing. I am a Brady Bunch fan and my favorite episode was with Jan getting the Locket. I also liked Ann B. Davis as the Maid, Alice. Imagine having someone like Alice in ones home who really cared about the Children? I am sure that many of us would also like to see Eve Plumb starring in roles today as well. I know that she has been in a few and has done some Art Work. Eve Plumb should not be ashamed of playing Jan Brady or any other Character because the role of any Actor or Actress is the be broad in interpreting all kinds of roles of personalities.
She always seemed a little bitter to me (not so much in recent years), but in the long run she was one of the few in the cast who didn't make a fool of herself with endless sex talk, endless talk about various addictions and personal traumas, endless degrading appearances on failed reality shows, and endless desperate cameos repeating the same catchphrases. I have to respect her for that.
Exactly! Some people just won't let child stars grow up. At least she didn't ride on the coattails of her fame as a child and go on lame reality shows. She's an artist and is wealthier than her counter parts. She did things right,in my opinion. And what happened to her,the same thing that happens to all of us,we got older. She's not fake,no botox,plastic surgery,etc. Go Eve,for keeping it real!
@@janetdishler3039 OK then why did she agree to come on a show that has former child stars on it? What did you think they were going to ask you about? She may not like it but most people only know her from her role as Jan. So you don't what to be known as Jan but show up for TV shows that will want to talk about the Brady Bunch. In my view she just comes off a jerk.
@@janetdishler3039 can you think of a single other reason she would have been on this talk show other than she had played Jan Brady on the Brady Bunch Show?
Of course she's bitter . Her typecast got her turned down for every decent role she ever auditioned for. I'd love to hide a recording in her apartment, looping her saying the phrase Marcia Marcia Marcia over and over and over as I watch with fiendish delightful as she screams in abject horror.
I don't feel for her at all. That show made her a star...albeit a brief one but still it gave her a job and she was popular and then she acts like this? Get over it.
Jan was my favorite Brady Bunch character.. I cant believe she acted like that.. I never see the other actors and actresses from the show act like that before. I realize she gets tired of all the questions about the show but that is actually the only place the fans will likely remember her from that along with The Brady Brides.
She was told that she was there to talk about what she was doing then. She was lied to. She likely would not have agreed if it were a Brady retrospective.
What the hell did she think she was gonna talk about when she was asked to go on the show?? This actually made her seem very ignorant in my opinion. Why did she not just gracefully decline when the show called her?? LAME
At.least she's the only one of the kids that didn't have a substance abuse problem and she must have been smart with her money and or investments because she's worth more than the others as well, she must be doing something right.
@@janetdishler3039 Are you sure about that? What Eve did on the Jenny Jones show was *extremely* rude. It was her job to go on that show to reminisce about her Brady Bunch experience, not to be rude to the audience. She got *paid* for her appearance, and she *didn't* deliver. She was complaining that she is "not a robot." Well.. Eve... (if she is seeing this).. it IS YOUR JOB to BE THAT ROBOT and *REPEAT* on *different* shows the *EXACT SAME ANSWERS.* Being interviewed is part of the business of being an actress... and being in that industry for *SO MANY YEARS* .. she should of *KNOWN* that.
@@janetdishler3039 No one knows for sure if she didn't have a substance abuse problem. no one knew Maureen had one until she went public about it. I am not saying Eve ever had one, but you also don't know for fact that she didn't. It is just sad that she feels the need to answer questions in such a rude and abrupt manner when she could have been polite in her refusal to answer.
I really don’t know what Eve has been through, but I can tell she is definitely upset and angry. Towards the end she was definitely becoming very upset. I feel like she would have had to have known that people would probably end up asking her questions about the show. I feel like she came off irritated to the audience and their questions. It’s not about having a sense of humor, like she said. It’s having a certain class and respect of knowing how important this show is to so many people. Maybe she doesn’t realize that because she was the actual actress working on the show and can’t place herself in the audience shoes, but seeing this was definitely very shocking. I feel like now maybe she has put whatever was bothering her to rest as she is working with her fellow cast mates from the show on HGTV’s, A Very Brady Renovation, and it seems like she’s enjoying herself. Maybe she was hurt by someone(s) from a long time ago or something bad happened to her, I really don’t know and only she knows, but I hope she can at least see how much good came from the show and she can understand how important her character as Jan is as well as all the characters from the show. The Brady Bunch will always be one of the most special, successful, and iconic TV show ever:)
What else can she say about her acting career? Fine, she had guest roles in Family Affair, Facts of Life, and Law and Order, and I saw her in a made for TV movie once, but without The Brady Bunch, she would have gone nowhere. And I hope she does not see herself as an artist, even though she has sold some of her paintings. Let's be honest, just like Hunter Biden, if she didn't already have fame, would those things be selling? There is no need to be ungrateful.
@@nassauguy48 I agree. I feel like many that have gone on to be on TV have been very ungrateful. They wanted the fame and fortune and they got it and then don’t want the attention. So obviously they are really unhappy either way. But then you have someone like Doris Day who found a lot of happiness in her faith as a Christian and reaching out to others. Elizabeth Taylor was also very gracious with giving back
Well it's obvious she got paid to be on this show, hence why she is on this show. I was waiting for DON'T CALL ME JAN!!! GET OFF MY LAWN!!!! Aww well we still love ya Eve or we wouldn't be on here. Now Susan Olsen does the best interviews regarding THE BUNCH
A friend of mine who was in the know of people working behind the scenes told me that the show's producers led them all to believe they would be speaking more about their current projects, and then went full-on nostalgia when the cameras were rolling. Considering Jenny Jones's track record with lying to her guests about the topics beforehand, that doesn't surprise me. Under those conditions, I can see why Eve Plumb wasn't exactly willing to play along. She probably would have skipped it had Jenny Jones told her the truth up front.
The episode did actually highlight that. But I don’t see anything wrong with a few Brady questions on the side. I doubt she ever thought the fans would ask her about her silk screens.
I get what she's saying.... to a point. Obviously her life as a whole didn't begin and end with the Brady Bunch, and I imagine she gets tired of trying to explain that. But if she's going to go on a show that was clearly about former child stars, then she has to indulge the audience a little. Then maybe they'd be willing to hear about what she's up to now. Lynda Carter walks that line perfectly. She totally owns the Wonder Woman identity and works in plugs for her concerts. Win-win!
To Eve Plumb's credit, she has to an extent loosened up in recent years about it (this interview was done in 1995), though she absolutely still prefers about talking about current acting roles and her artwork. The problem is that most people outside of the NYC theatre and art communities still only know her for her role as Jan Brady. And that's if they know her at all. I would have liked to see the entire interview as I don't think that this was the only interaction that Eve had with the audience.
She was the least liked member of the Brady family. Hell I liked Tiger more than her and he had a better personality. I've never hated a character or person as much as Jan Brady/Eve Plumb
Wait, wait... Are you telling me Eve Plumb, star of the amazing "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway", was in the BRADY BUNCH!? Well, my little mind is blown. I was wondering why she was on this panel. Apparently she didn't know why, either.
So, I am wondering why she agreed to be on the show if she was tired of being asked the same questions. I see that with a lot of older celebs. Don't ask me about any shows I did, so what else would you like to talk about?
Eve did the 35th Anniversary Special back in 2004 I think. She didn't seem sensitive about the Brady Bunch at that time. My guess is that she has accepted her legacy for what it is.
@@lionheartroar3104 and you can actually still sense some bitterness from her on that special lol anytime the group is asked if they’ve seen the parody movies she’s so quick to make it known that she has NOT
@@Person-mh6xq I agree, but she was probably tired of getting asked the same question over and over again year after year, and i mean who can blame her ? I think you also would get tired if you where asked the same questions over and over and over and over again year after year after year.
Eve plumb's interviews are the cringe-worthy BEST on RU-vid. She has no idea how boring she is when she talks about her current projects, or her art, which is why the interviewer HAS to bring up the Brady Bunch, to keep the audience from going to sleep. I can sympathize with her, but unfortunately, she is just not dynamic enough as a celebrity to shed the "Jan." The Brady Bunch (and her reluctance to it) are the only things that make her complex and interesting.
I remember watching this in its entirety. What is not being shown is the main theme of this episode was what former child stars are doing now. She was there to promote her silk screen work, which she is very good at doing. She had been talking about that, but Jenny Jones kept pushing the Jan Brady aspect and encouraged the audience to do so as well.
This was 1995. "The Brady Bunch Movie" came out in February of that year. Sherman Schwartz, the creator of The Brady Bunch, was one of the producers of that film. In the movie, they really play up the Jan character as the "ugly duckling" and the "black sheep" of the family. It probably really pissed off Eve that her character was turned into a punch line. Eve seemed way more positive about The Brady Bunch prior to the mid-90s, watch her appearance with Barry Williams and Susan Olsen on the MTV show "Remote Control" in 1989 for example. I'm guessing the movie (and its sequel) as well the cast receiving no residuals at all from the show, played a part in Eve's bitterness. I honestly can't say I blame her much either.
I remember watching this when it was first aired, I must have been 11 or 12. Up until that day, I loved "Jan Brady", mostly because I felt like the Jan in my family. After watching this, it made me sad. #crazypeopleproblems
Eve seems to have come around lately and is more accepting of her Brady Bunch past. She has appeared with all her previous co-stars in a sort of reality show regarding the renovation of the old Brady bunch house. She seems to be comfortable now talking about all things Brady these days.
I remember that show. If she didn't want to be there, she should have stayed home instead of disappointing fans of the sitcom. What really angered me is that she only wanted to plug her paintings. She is nothing but an opportunist.
This was all the way back in the early 90s. Isn't that when these kinds of talk shows were popular? She just reunited with the cast to do that A Very Brady Renovation on HGTV, so I don't think she's quite as bitter nowadays as she was then. I think the way she was acting was kind of funny myself😂😂😂😂
In a way, I can sympathise with Eve Plumb -- she's probably been hearing "Brady Bunch" questions all her life, after playing the role when she was a child. I'd be a little cranky if the only thing anyone ever asked me about was my newspaper route I had when I was 11. On the other hand, why appear on a show like this if she doesn't want to answer questions about the only thing the public knows her from?
Three things. One, for the paycheck (obviously). Two, for closure (show her progression, if any, as an actress or whatever she does since then). Three: to remain relevant.
She probably feels like she is more than the Brady bunch but everyone only knows her as that. She probably was type cast and could never escape “Brady bunch” in peoples mind that she learned to resent it and when people asks questions about it she clearly was shutting down every question to do with Brady bunch! I loved her in that role. She was playing a role but the audience was living and finding themselves in her life and she meant so much to so many.
Maureen is a sweetheart on and off camera Eve has always been a pain in the ass. She is lucky to be remembered fondly for anything lots of actors never become pop culture icons
You missed the entire point! You might want to explore your own issues if you couldn’t see how inappropriate she was on a talk show about her Brady bunch career.
Very well said! Reminds me of a recent Bruce Hornsby concert where he felt way above the music that gave him fame in the first place. In fact he would not perform them except one bizarre and abbreviated rendition of Mandolin Rain. Its great to grow and mature as an artist but humility and gratitude to those who put you there comes first.
It seems to be one on every tv show...Tina Louise from Gilligan's Island...Susan Dey from Partridge Family...Eve Plumb from Brady Bunch...& so on. It seems interesting that they're all female..hmmm..
i dont blame eve 4 being bitter. the brady bunch RUINED her career. it happened to most of the actors that had successful tv shows back then. example: Good times, happy days, laverne and shirley, giligans island, the jeffersons, the partridge family. i can go on and on. the money that they made from those shows are gone. how r they gonna make a living now?? i was embarrassed 4 gary coleman when he had 2 work as a security guard at the fox hills mall in california. he went from making millions to $10 an hour.
She seems very snippy here. Not sure why she came on the show knowing it was about child stars....people are going to ask you about the Brady Bunch as that was your childhood!
orlandotj1 I don't have any idea what they were paid. I'm guessing that's the reason she was doing it though. She clearly doesn't have any enthusiasm for it.
The poster of this clip needs to walk in Eve Plumb's shoes. Imagine that you are trying to work as an artist and actress...you make public appearances, and all people want to talk about is what you did thirty-odd years ago. The Brady Bunch has never been off the air, the cast does not get any money from that, and the show hurt many of them that wanted to get other acting jobs because of "typecasting". If Eve is bitter...she is entitled.
Yeah if she was getting royalties from it then it would be a different matter! People need to shut up. You would be bitter too if you were used like this as a child; then discarded and never paid for your troubles...
Joseph N Jonathon Harris refused to acknowledge or talk about anything Lost in Space related unless they were paying him to promote something. I'm guessing she was paid for her appearance, because she rarely talks about it.
***** WHY did she THINK she was on The Jenny Jones show? She was rude to the people asking the questions.What DID she do after The Brady Bunch. Its NOT like she had a tv career like Linda Blair.Linda B. had some GREAT tv movies,AND she was in one of the GREATEST HORROR MOVIES,"THE EXORCIST",JAN.
Eve Plumb should have to open every interview with "Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!" It's just like how William Shatner hates (to acknowledge) Star Trek. Funny, as in odd.
A case of life imitating art. It's actually interesting to watch. She's pretty bitter here. I think it has a lot to do with her still being young during this interview and trying to branch out to find other roles outside of the "Jan Brady" stereotype. It was very difficult for all of them not to be typecast. It's unfair. They were all great actors. I think to her detriment, instead of graciously embracing the fame she gained from that series, she comes off way too abrasive and a bit too self-important in this clip. She actually embodies the whiny little Jan Brady stereotype that she so desperately wanted to escape. I recently saw her on HGTV's "A Very Brady Renovation". I think with age, she's finally come to accept her role and embrace her history with that show. It's tough being young and typecast in Hollywood, especially when you have so much more to offer. I can understand her frustration. She probably did this interview with the intention of getting more exposure. It probably didn't help her.
I remember this!! I was like why did you go on a show to talk about your only real job and then tell people talking about your only real job is such a drag?
Eve is super awesome. She has more to offer than Jan Brady. I can dig her being annoyed. Give the woman a chance. Give her more work and give it to her NOW!!!!!
I remember watching this back when it first aired. And yes, she is bitter and it shows. She wanted to break out of her role on the Brady Bunch and become a serious actress. She is bitter with the public who couldn't see her as anything other than Jan Brady. She is bitter with the acting industry an casting agents who turned her down or even outright refused to let her audition for another part because they too couldn't see her as anything other than Jan Brady.
I sympathize with her. Who would want to be associated forever ONLY with what they did at age 15 or so? That one role got her a career, but I'm also sure it hobbled her career--no doubt later on she wasn't considered for many serious roles because having "Jan Brady" play them would be perceived as a joke.
Who could have assured that she would have had a successful acting career if the Brady Bunch hadn't existed? Maybe she wouldn't have gotten a big break into the industry...
Who could have assured that she would have had a successful acting career if the Brady Bunch hadn't existed? Maybe she wouldn't have gotten a big break into the industry...
I grew up watching all of the reruns, and am a big fan of the show. Eve needs to realize that so many American kids adored her and the simplicity of a wholesome show. She also needs to realize how lucky she was to be a part of it, and that it is the reason she's able to have a comfortable life in her later years. She needs to embrace it rather than repel it.
Thomas Bird I really think that she was the best actress on that show. The others have all done pretty much nothing. She also was great in a movie called Dawn portrait of a Teenage Runaway. She should embrace the roll of Jan because she truly is beloved and remembered for being the middle child. Peter was also the middle child. He went through some identity crisis situations as well. Who can forget pork chops and applesauce?
Wow. So what does she WANT to talk about? She wouldn't have had a career if it weren't for the Brady Bunch. Soleil Moon Frye turned into a great grownup with no bitterness!
I remember watching that episode when it was first aired and my lasting memory of Eve Plumb when it comes to the Brady phenomena was her extreme bitterness - all from this interview.
She does come across as aloof or bitter and perhaps she was but she has had such a CG push and pull relationship with the Brady Bunch. She is much much better and accepting of her place in tv icons. And she is one of them. My god, she should be so honored that she will forever be remembered in the American lexicon.
Jan, when you stole that kids bike in the park did your rich architect Dad (Mike Brady) hire an attorney to make up that excuse about you needing glasses? Puhleez... Did you cover up a chronic stealing problem like Lindsey Lohan had? Being a Brady must have it's benefits!
