Patricia Richardson attends the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations Presents “Chantilly Bridge” at SAG-AFTRA Foundation Screening Room.Photo:Araya Doheny/Getty Images
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SorryHome Improvementfans, the Taylor family won’t be returning to the screen anytime soon.
“It’s not the same – it’s not gonna be the show. At all,” Richardson, 73, said of the series, which aired from 1991 to 1999. “And people think we can just magically go right back to who we were 30 years ago and do a show that was 30 years ago, and we’ve all changed quite a bit, I think, since then. And the show would just be… It would be very weird. It makes me sad to think about it. I think — We did it. We did it well. We quit at the right time before it got really bad. And it should just stay as it is.”
“He kept coming out publicly, I mean it was so weird. I would hear on Twitter or whatever, I’d hear that he was coming out publicly and saying this stuff about how everyone was on board to do aHome Improvementreunion," said Richardson, who earned four Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe Award nominations for the sitcom.
Patricia Richardson and Tim Allen in the pilot episode of ‘Home Improvement’ (1991).ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
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She continued, “But he never asked me, and he never askedJonathan [Taylor Thomas]who I talk to. So I called Jonathan one day and I said, ‘Has he asked you about this?’ And he went, ‘No. Why is he going around telling everyone that we’re all on board when he hasn’t talked to you or me?’ I think that’s weird.”
Richardson also addressed a “rumor” she’d heard about there being a script for a spinoff about her character as she said of Allen: “He was kind of lying to people and telling them that I was on board and I didn’t know anything about it.”
In general, she affirmed she “would not want” to reboot the show whatsoever, before referencing the statuses of some of the sitcom’s other characters, includingZachery Ty Bryan, who she called “a felon” after hewas arrested in February and charged with felony DUI. The actor has two previous arrests on his record, as he wascharged with fourth-degree felony assaultin August andpled guilty to two domestic violence misdemeanor chargesin 2021.
As for her two other former onscreen sons, Richardson said Taran Noah Smith “hasn’t acted since he left the show” and Taylor Thomas, 42, is no longer “interested in acting.”
‘Home Improvement’ stars Patricia Richardson and Tim Allen.Getty Images
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While Richardson may not be interested in revisiting her role as Jill Taylor, Allen has showed more interest in returning to the sitcom. In a 2021 episode ofLast Man Standing’s final season,Allen reprised his role as Tim “The Tool Man” Taylorin a crossover episode — an experience that he described as both “weird” and “creepy.”
“It was very peculiar to do both parts, I’ll tell you that.It was challenging for me to do both parts and kind of emotional,” Allen toldEntertainment Tonight, referring to the 2003 death of his former costar, Earl Hindman, who played Wilson, Allen’s onscreen neighbor inHome Improvement.
source: people.com
