But I have to say, Norman and I went to the table read on Wednesday and Thursday, and instinct was spot on.” Miller admits that “when we were talking about casting Facts of Life the same age as the women who are still with us” - meaning, OG cast members Lisa Whelchel, Nancy McKeon, Mindy Cohn and Kim Fields - “I was a little confused. At the time, I didn’t know: Is he going to want to cast everybody old, or is he just going to have the joke be Kevin? But as we started talking through it, it made sense to be consistent with that conceit of having older people play kids.” “He had mentioned it when we were doing our second special, that the third one has to be Kevin Hart. “It started with Jimmy and his desire to have Kevin Hart play Arnold Jackson, the Gary Coleman role,” Miller, who is Lear’s creative partner, tells TVLine. The choice to cast adults as kids, while an obvious play for word of mouth/publicity, was met by potential viewers with some confusion and in extreme cases rather righteous indignation, but it was set in motion more than two years ago. Similarly, the live staging of The Facts of Life - which follows teen girls at a prep school - stars Jennifer Aniston ( Friends) as Blair, Kathryn Hahn ( WandaVision) as Jo, Allison Tolman ( Fargo) as Natalie and Gabrielle Union ( L.A.’s Finest) as Tootie, alongside Dowd’s Mrs.
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