Perpetually household. The Get together of 5 solid has continued to help every over time since starring on the beloved drama collection.
The present — which ran on Fox from 1994 to 2000 — adopted the lives of siblings Charlie (Matthew Fox), Bailey (Scott Wolf), Julia (Neve Campbell), Claudia (Lacey Chabert) and Owen Salinger (Jacob Smith), as they discovered to navigate life after their mother and father die in a automotive accident. Whereas Get together of 5 was chock stuffed with heartwarming household moments, the Salingers’ story additionally handled robust matters resembling alcoholism, most cancers and home violence.
The collection additionally starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Scott Grimes, Michael A. Goorjian, Paula Devicq, Jeremy London, Tom Mason and Jennifer Aspen. Among the many many accolades it acquired all through its six-season run, Get together of 5 took dwelling the Golden Globe for Greatest Drama Collection in 1996 and was nominated once more for the award the next yr.
“It actually had a big influence on the folks that watched it,” Wolf mentioned of the present in a February 2015 interview with HuffPost Reside. “That was one thing that I do know I used to be, and all of us that made that present, have been actually pleased with. All of us wanna imagine within the work we’re doing, and love the work we’re doing, however we don’t wish to do it in a cave. The extra folks that it issues to, the higher.”
The Everwood alum went on to notice that he and the solid proceed to keep up a correspondence. “Neve and I see one another most likely greater than any of the others,” Wolf continued. “I’m nonetheless in contact with Matthew right here and there, with Lacey — I can’t imagine how little she was after we began the present. She was, like, 11 years previous, and I really feel like she’s like a sister. We have been very a lot a second household to one another.”
He and Campbell later reunited on display as friends on a June 2017 episode of Watch What Occurs Reside With Andy Cohen, throughout which they weighed in on whether or not the collection ought to be revived.
“It wouldn’t make any sense, by any means,” the Scream actress mentioned on the late-night present. “If we haven’t gotten over the demise of our mother and father 20 years later, we’ve obtained a major problem.”
Get together of 5, nonetheless, did get the reboot remedy in 2020 on Freeform from unique present creators Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman. Starring Brandon Larracuente, Niko Guardado, Emily Tosta and Elle Paris Legaspi, the brand new model put a twist on the story by specializing in a gaggle of siblings whose mother and father have been deported to Mexico. The collection was canceled after its first season.
“Our curiosity in reviving the collection didn’t come about as a result of we wished to affix this wave of ‘How can we take a profitable collection and repurpose it?’ We noticed a chance within the zeitgeist,” Lippman defined in a December 2019 interview with the New York Publish. “The story we informed 25 years in the past was not fictional; it was occurring day by day across the nation. That gave the impression to be a motive [for a reboot]. And it appeared in some methods a way more pressing story to be informed.”
In June 2023, Chabert and Wolf introduced they have been reuniting to play siblings but once more for a Hallmark Christmas film.
“Working with Lacey on Get together of 5 was certainly one of my favourite experiences ever,” he gushed about his costar. “Reuniting in spite of everything of those years to inform such a stupendous story collectively is a dream that I’m so glad is coming true.”
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