![]() She had the ingenuity to go Blockbuster to Blockbuster, video store to video store, and just ask the cashier to put her video on their shelves. Sheryl took all the money and access and everything she had to make this show, but in doing so there wasn’t a penny left for marketing. … I thought it was fascinating and in some ways heartbreaking.Įven just thinking about the childrens’ home-video marketplace at the time, and what a Wild West that must have been, even then. Then to have that turned on her on some level and the ripples from all of that. She didn’t see anything for him out there, and what she created turned into something she never even thought could be that big. I also just have a personal interest in the project, because my mom’s a teacher, so I love to see someone like Sheryl Leach, who created something so that her son would be entertained. So it felt very relevant, while at the same time feeling nostalgic and all the things that happen when you plug into a well-known brand. I only came in when the director, Tommy Avallone, brought us the kernel of an idea and said, “Let’s develop this together.” There were so many different pieces of it, from obvious things like how we’re going through this ’90s nostalgia moment to the fact that the lineage of this suspicious, dark, angry backlash that you see happening around Barney is the pre–social media version of what’s happening today in our lives, our culture and our politics. I’m 10 years older than you, so for me, Barney was even more removed. What baggage did you bring into the project? I’m 41, so I really only remember the fever around that show from seeing how my younger brother absorbed it. People either remember Barney fondly or with unrequited ire, depending on how old they are and where they were at the peak of Barney mania. Current talked to I Love You EP Joel Chiodi about Barney’s birth, death and everything in between. Director Tommy Avallone and the team at Scout Productions ( Queer Eye, Legendary, The Hype) got exceptional access to much of Barney’s original cast and creators, and the series makes savvy use of viewers’ emotional distance from the project now, suggesting that while Barney-bashing might have seemed fun at the time, it was possibly a precursor to today’s internet trolls and haters. This is all captured in a new two-part docuseries on Peacock, I Love You, You Hate Me, out now. Leach encountered personal tragedy in her own life as well, with the dissolution of a marriage and the arrest and subsequent incarceration of her son, who’d once inspired her to create the Barney universe. Barney-bashing became increasingly common, and the phrase “big purple dinosaur” became synonymous with both bland pap and a type of overt femininity that made a lot of straight men uncomfortable at the time. Almost 300 episodes of that series were filmed by the time it went off the air in 2010, and the show’s cast made space for child-actor luminaries like Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez.īehind the scenes, though, there was drama in Barney world as creator Leach dealt with the show’s overnight success - and subsequent rejection by a large, angry contingent of jaded grown-ups who couldn’t vibe with Barney’s messages of universal love and positivity. With some tweaks, what was once a series of videos about Barney and the Backyard Gang became Barney & Friends. Created as a series of videos by Dallas mom Sheryl Leach in 1988, the show was eventually discovered by Connecticut Public Television executive Larry Rifkin in 1991. In 2022, Hamilton appeared in the documentary I Love You, You Hate Me recounting a bit of her time with Barney & Friends.Few children’s shows carry the baggage that Barney & Friends does, even now. Hamilton reprised her role as "Min" for the tenth anniversary special Sing and Dance with Barney (1999) and again in the video Read with Me, Dance with Me (2003). Hamilton portrayed "Min" for the first three seasons of Barney & Friends and additional home videos until 1996. With a few callbacks, she got the role of " Min". During her audition she sang " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and danced. ![]() Her agent sent her to audition for Barney & Friends in 1991. In addition, she was a fan of the Barney & The Backyard Gang videos. Hamilton became interested with acting and dancing at a very young age.
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