Stars of the beloved '70s series 'Little House on the Prairie' reunited ahead of the show's 50th anniversary at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in Monaco on June 15, and said during a panel that they felt 'very protected' on set as child actors.
Stars of the beloved '70s series reunited ahead of the show's 50th anniversary at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in Monaco on Saturday, June 15Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously an entertainment reporter at The Messenger.Kelsie Gibson is the SEO Editor of PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2021. She was formerly at POPSUGAR, Bustle, Tiger Beat and Her Campus.
Although Arngrim pointed out that this might seem scandalous in 2024, the culture on a 1970s TV set was much different. It was also common back then for cast and crew to drink behind the scenes — at Christmas parties, wrap parties and after filming was done for the day. "That's how it was. We had junk food and we had cigarettes and beer. That's just how people lived in the '70s. So it was very normal for us growing up," she continued.According to Grassle, much of the party-like atmosphere on set carried over from the culture on sets like the cowboy-Western seriesBut at the same time, everyone in the cast and crew was respectful about the fact that there were lots of child actors around.
" polite, there wasn't cursing. There was a real respect for the fact that we had children all around us. And I was really glad about that," she added."I always felt our crew was very protective of us children," she said, as Labyorteaux, 57 , added that he also felt the"They were protective, they were caring and nurturing, they catered to young actors to give them a safe place to do their best," he said of the set's atmosphere.
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