ABC’s typical TGIF lineup obtained a small wilder then “Family Matters” fans could feel, in accordance to veteran actress Jo Marie Payton.
Payton — who played Harriette Baines Winslow on the wholesome sitcom from 1989 to 1997 — has alleged that Steve Urkel himself, Jaleel White, tried to get violent her during filming.
“There was a single time he essentially needed to physically struggle me,” the 71-year-previous instructed Amusement Tonight, claiming the former kid star’s speedy ascent into the highlight afflicted his mind-set on set.
She claimed the altercation occurred for the duration of the period nine episode “Original Gangsta Dawg,” in which White, now 45, also portrayed Urkel’s gangster cousin, OGD.
“[There was a scene where] I said we simply cannot do that, requirements and practices will not permit that move, it is not gonna happen,” Payton claimed. “He wanted to do it anyway … He was so mad, he commenced kicking and screaming and things.”
Which is when the “Proud Family” star unveiled she “she walked off” the set. As she started off to leave, she overheard White make a remark. She then asked costar Darius McCrary to make clear what White experienced mentioned.
“He stated a little something about, ‘She ought to want to melee.’ I stated, ‘What’s a melee?’ He explained, ‘a struggle.’ I turned all-around — if he wanna struggle, I would,” she extra. “Darius grabbed me. I was gonna whip his at the rear of.”
Nevertheless, Payton spelled out she comprehended that White was “just a kid” at the time and does not give him “all the credit” for his actions.
Payton reported, “I give some of those people older people credit way too. Permitting him operate wild and do whatsoever he wished to do, considering he can say what he desires to say, you know, and hurt people’s feelings and all that.”
White’s reps did not straight away reply to The Post’s ask for for comment about Payton’s accusations.
The character of Steve Urkel begun to on the clearly show as a supporting purpose. But his wacky clothing and sense of nerdy humor captivated audiences and he swiftly turned the major matter.
An episode of E!’s True Hollywood Tale dropped previous calendar year in which many alums from the sequence touched upon tensions that arose when group favorite White was upgraded to a most important character. Producers informed their actors that the “dynamic was going to change” to make the sitcom far more about Urkel and his antics.
“And we mentioned ‘OK,’ ” Payton reported in the documentary. “We weren’t pleased about it. I consider together the way it obtained to be a very little resentful but it was just an adjustment that we experienced to make.”
“My arrival to ‘Family Matters’ was a rocky start at the beginning,” White said. “They form of had to settle for that I was there. That was a method.”
But above time, the cast grew to like him and they “figured out that ‘if you do this and I do that, we win’ — that’s finally what developed,’ he explained.
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