KingsOfKings
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Jimmie Walker, who played J.J. on the ’70s sitcom “Good Times,” sat down for a tell-all interview where he gave all kinds of behind the scenes details.
While he discussed the technical aspects of the show, in terms of the initial premise and story lines, he spent much of the time talking smack about his cast mates. The 71-year-old also talked about the problems he had with folks on the show, specifically, John Amos, who played his father James Evans, Esther Rolle, who played his mother, Michael and Thelma played by Ralph Carter and Bern Nadette Stanis and Ja’Net DuBois, who played Willona.
Walker also suggested that his former cast mates weren’t appreciative of being on a hit show and didn’t realize how fleeting that level of success was.
“I think that they killed the goose that laid the golden egg,” he stated. “These people, anytime you said anything, they get crazy, they get upset. I said ‘They don’t get it, man.’”
He also claimed that DuBois complained to the writers a lot, mainly about her character not doing enough. So much so, they eventually expanded her role and that’s how the Penny character, played by Janet Jackson, was created.
“Without Ja’Net, I don’t think Janet Jackson would’ve ever gotten on our show,” said Walker. “Because she laid out her side of whatever so much, that the writer said ‘We’ve got to do something to get her off our backs.’”
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