Jo Marie Payton Says She'll Do a 'Family Matters' Reboot If Judy Winslow Returns
etonline.comrevival, but she has one condition if something ever gets off the ground — her youngest TV child, Judy Winslow, must be written back in.At the 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut, over the weekend, Payton reunited with her former co-stars, Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow), Darius McCrary (Eddie Winslow) and Kellie Williams (Laura Winslow).
In a video posted by Williams' media company, Dream Merchant Media Entertainment, LLC, the cast was asked whether they would consider reviving their iconic characters from the hit series, whether in a reboot or a revival.
Payton, who played the stern but loving TV matriarch Harriette Winslow, noted that while a -esque reboot wouldn't be in the cards for the cast, they would be happy to return to their roots as a sitcom.But, she said that she would only do it if Judy Winslow, the family's youngest child played by Jaimee Foxworth who mysteriously disappeared in the fourth season, was written back into the show.Revealing that she was «personally hurt» by the creative decision, she told fans at the convention, «Don’t think for a minute that we did not go in.»«When I mentioned it to the producers, I said, 'You guys need to tell me something that is not only creative, but also politically correct to straighten out this situation because there's nowhere in the world a family… You gave me three kids, you took away my baby,» Payton, 71, recalled. «If you had taken away my oldest child, we could have always come up with [excuses in the episodes] that she was at the mall or with her friends.
You took away my baby, and when I asked you, 'Why did you take away my baby girl?,' you said, 'Nobody would notice.'»«I said, 'You know what, when we're walking down the street, nobody's gonna notice you.
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