Melora Hardin There are only loving memories of her time in Small house in Prairie Set up the work with the series director Michael Landon.
“Michael Landon made everyone feel safe,” told Hardin, 57, to the Fox News Digital in an interview published on Saturday, March 15, adding that she had worked “for a long time already” in the showbuiness before jumping to Prairie.
“He believed in us and we believed in it,” she said about Lando’s relationship with other “Prairie” children. “He was protective against us. And I think this was one of the most important lessons I learned early (in Hollywood) – surround the people who make you feel safe. “
Alum Office was heard about the series when she was only 9 years old, and returned when she was 13 to portray a character named Belinda, a classmate Matthew LabyorteauxAlbert ingalls character. According to Hardin, Landon, who led the series and also played as Patriarch Charles “without” Ingalls, was “so warm” and “worked great with the kids”. (Landon, who died in 1991, also executive produced the series and wrote some episodes.)
“I’ve always said that acting and making movies and TV are one of the biggest sports of the surrounding team. And I believe Michael Landon was my first example,” he continued the hard. “I learned from him immediately. And it just felt amazing to be around people who made you feel safe to be a fool, fail money. As a performer, especially the young man, I felt good not to feel or challenged constantly. “

She added, “it is about working with great collaborators and not tolerate a -holles. He had no determination. And I think it is extremely important. If you feel safe, then you can do great work.” She explained, “he really knew how to make us feel comfortable.
Hardin told Priza that, up to this point in her career, she had already “worked with people who were not as beautiful” as Landon, mentioning, “Many times I would make a movie or something, and I would be the only (child) in the room.
But while working at Little House in Prairie, Hardin said children’s actors “had group school, and it was just so much fun to have other children at school with you, working with you.”
She added, “It was such a joy to have other children when you should be in class with them and then work with them. That was joyful. We would also play games. It was a truly fun way to be a child, to be a children’s actor. It was certainly a pronounced point.”
The original small house in the Prairie TV series, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder WilderBooks of the same name, were developed from 1974 to 1984. The series also played Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle AND Melissa Sue Anderson like the rest of the Pioneer Ingalls family.
“He had a long relationship with his crew and he surrounded people really believed him,” Hardin said. “So he was smoothly. He was just joyful. I never felt he was stressed. Maybe he was (working behind the scenes), but I never felt it as a child. He just seemed to be having a good time … everyone seemed to smile in my world as a young child.”