Melissa Gilbert is protecting of Little House on the Prairie, and rightly so. She performed the central character of Laura Ingalls Wilder on the TV collection loosely based mostly on the creator's semi-autobiographical books about rising up within the late 1800s, for its whole run, from 1974 to 1984. So when Megyn Kelly weighed in final month on a deliberate Netflix reboot, Gilbert needed to communicate out.

"I actually wasn't gonna have any remark, and I help the undertaking," Gilbert mentioned Tuesday on The View. "It's identical to, you understand, completely different variations of Little Women. Folks's interpretation of a traditional story. However, when she mentioned that…it shocked me, as a result of you must have watched Little Home on the Prairie to grasp what you're speaking about."

Melissa Gilbert tells Megyn Kelly 'watch the original again' after Little House on the Prairie anti-'woke' comment

Kelly wrote on social media, the place she tagged Netflix, "In case you wokeify Little Home on the Prairie I’ll make it my singular mission to completely break your undertaking."

Gilbert took difficulty with that, writing in her personal put up, "Ummm…watch the unique once more. TV doesn't 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’ll be able to consider," she wrote. Within the caption, she suggested Kelly to "Watch any episode on any streaming platform wherever on the earth."

And he or she reiterated that stance on the discuss present. "The tales we instructed…we have been a mirrored image of what was taking place in America in 1974 by way of the lens of 1874, and, in loads of methods, we're nonetheless there…. And in order that was all Michael Landon, ya know? He was telling the tales of the time. He was telling the tales of the veterans coming residence from Vietnam. He was telling the tales of racism and chauvinism and antisemitism and nativism."

Landon, who died in 1991, govt produced the NBC collection, which he additionally commonly wrote and directed. The Bonanza alum additionally portrayed Laura's "Pa," Charles Ingalls, who was the on-screen ethical middle of the present. The folks of their small city of Walnut Grove seemed as much as him for his braveness to do what was proper and champion honesty, equity, and laborious work for all.

Melissa Gilbert supports Little House reboot: 'There's plenty of room' for new stories

"I mentioned, 'I'm simply not going to remark. I'm simply going to let or not it’s as a result of I need them to have their very own factor. And in the event that they want me later, we'll speak about it,'" Gilbert tells Leisure Weekly. "However then Megyn Kelly needed to open her [long pause] face, and make a — I'm attempting actually laborious currently to not use unhealthy phrases, so I’d simply say a cotton-headed ninny-muggins remark about [the reboot]."

Talking to EW final week, Gilbert mentioned she initially hadn't deliberate to say something in regards to the reboot, so the folks concerned in new undertaking may "have their very own factor," she mentioned. "And in the event that they want me later, we'll speak about it. However then Megyn Kelly needed to open her [long pause] face, and make a — I'm attempting actually laborious currently to not use unhealthy phrases, so I’d simply say a cotton-headed ninny-muggins remark about [the reboot]."

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Again on The View, when cohost Pleasure Behar complimented Little Home, Gilbert thanked her. “I beloved being part of it, and I do assume there’s room for interpretation," mentioned the actress, who has continued to be part of fan conventions and reunions of a lot of the forged over time.

Netflix mentioned its undertaking would give attention to the third of Wilder's Nineteen Thirties-era books, which is titled merely Little Home on the Prairie. The rebooted model will likely be "half household drama, half epic survival story, and half origin story of the American West," the streamer mentioned in a information launch. "The collection will provide a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those that formed the frontier."

Gilbert has mentioned she received't be concerned this go-round.

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