“Marriage…with Children” star reveals a behind-the-scenes garbage-talking drama
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“Married…with children” Everything wasn’t laughing behind the scenes.
Stars Christina Applegate and Katie Sagar candidly shared how cruelly honest the cast members were to the set of the iconic ’90s show.
“We were a sarcasm and sarcasm,” Sagar admitted to her. “Pie” podcast, With her husband Kurt Sutter. “You weren’t really safe. You’re going to turn your back and someone else talks to you.”
“Married… With Children” actors Christina Applegate, David Fastino, Ed Onell and Katie Sagar posed for portraits in October 1988. (Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)
Podcast guest Applegate recalled the moment she noticed people were talking to her while she stepped into her dressing room.
“I was able to hear him talk in my dressing room on the monitor,” she said. “I came out of the rehearsal and I can literally hear everyone on the set talking about me.”
“I shared her reaction, ‘Wow, I was there 20 seconds ago.’
Sagal played Applegate’s on-screen mother in a show that ran from 1987 to 1997.
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“Marriage…with Children” star reveals a behind-the-scenes garbage-talking drama. (Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)
Applegate previously revealed that the pressure she faced with “married…with children” led to the development of an eating disorder.
March, “Death to me” The actress revealed that she was a child star and how it deeply affected her health in the spotlight.
“Performing that character wasn’t like anorexia in my mind,” she explained in her “muscular” podcast while talking to guest Sagar at the time.
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“Yeah, I started having a pretty bad eating disorder when I was doing a show that lasted for so long,” she said.
Applegate said she had never told anyone about the disability and was “very, very private about it.”
Christina Applegate said she developed an eating disorder while appearing on the show. (Aaron Rapoport/TM and ©Fox Network. All rights reserved.
“I’d eat in hiding in the bathroom because it was so embarrassing to be hiding in the plane, like we did when we went to London,” she said. “I remember hiding there and ate like one shrimp because I was so afraid to see someone eating and think I’d be fat or something. I don’t know. I was in such a dark space.”
Sagar agreed that Applegate was “very scrutinized” on the show as she was a “sex symbol.”
Being a sex symbol at 17 years old is “F —” and everyone’s heads added, “it was a very misogynistic show.”
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“Chrissy was very scrutinized and tried to put it in the box,” continued Sagal. “…So they put her in a tighter skirt and a shorter skirt, so there was a lot of it.”
Applegate has admitted that provocative wardrobe choices are in fact her idea.
Her character, Kelly Bundy, was originally written as a “tough” and “biker girl,” but she said she was inspired by a girl interviewed in the 1981 documentary “The Western Civilization: Part II: The Metal Years.”
Christina Applegate and Katie Sagar will speak on stage during the Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony honoring Christina Applegate. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
“And she had this big f–haired and a white Lycra dress, and I went to the wardrobe department and said, “We’re changing this. We need to represent this jitest on this rock, so where did she come from?”
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The Chicago-based series revolved around the Bundy family. Sagar and Applegate starred alongside Ed O’Neill and David Fautino.
Brie Stimson of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.