The good boys were determined to protect Catherine Bach and their Daisy Dukes.
“The Dukes of Hazzard” stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat, as well as Bach, recently gathered to celebrate the iconic program of the program, General Lee, which is honored in the exhibition of “Iconic Rides” in the Hollywood Museum. The series, which reported “The adventures of Duke’s children from Hazzard County of Hazzard County”, from 1979 to 1985.
“It never occurred to us that we are going to be friends for life,” said Schneider, who played Boe, Fox News Digital.
“I am with other people from other programs, and particularly other bands … there are many bands that cannot endure,” said the actor and the musician. “I couldn’t imagine a life without Tom Wopat was one of my best friends, without Catherine Bach was one of my best friends. I couldn’t exist.”
When the situation comedy was released for the first time, the then head of programming of CBS B. Donald Grant found herself with a space for television critics who hated him, the Hollywood Reporter shared. Even so, the program won around millions of fans, attracting up to 20 million viewers per episode. According to the departure, he had the second largest program on television in his third season.
“The Dukes of Hazzard” catapulted the trio to stardom, special Bach, whose shorts made her a sexual symbol. Schneider said the cast became incredible, and although fans saw their legs of one million dollars, he and Wopat saw her back.
“Tom and I were very protective from Catherine,” said the 65 -year -old retention. “Hollywood in those days, Hollywood on any day, is a bit strange, but particularly for a young woman of about 20 years who had her legs secured by one million dollars.
“Then, we make sure that every time Catherine had a visitor on the set, some that she could be dating, we would approach them as if I imagined Bo and Luke [Duke] It would appear. ‘Hi how are things? What are you doing? We work early tomorrow, so you have to have at 9 o’clock tonight. “
“We were terrible with these people,” Schneider played. “But Cathy would do the same. Catherine has done that all my life. I still do it with her. But that is what people who love and respect each other, protect each other.”
Bach previously told Fox News Digital who was never involved romantic with his co -star.
“Let me say this, no matter how much those guys were the most charming and sexy friends on the planet and the women who adored them were really like my brothers,” he said. “As much as I appreciate them, there is no way to be, as you say, connect them with them. Just look at your brother or who is very close to you and go,” can I do this? “It’s a no.”
Schneider said he became a fast friend of Wopat and Bach, a friendship that is still strong today.
“My relationship with Tom and Catherine has been wonderful,” he said. “One of the things that people have mentioned now for four and measures is how realistic the friendship between Bo, Luke and Daisy, how credible we all love, honor and protect each other.”
“Well, that started from the beginning,” he shared. “I’m not sure why, but Specular Tom and I … Tom and I wore a guitar. They saw us playing songs that we had written or great songs from our era of the emergency room. I think the music joined us.”
“But also, the work, the five days a week, 12 hours a day, 10 months a year, it would be really bad not to get along with the people with whom you spend so much time,” he added.
Schneider was 18 years old and fresh from high school when he joined “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Two years passed after Burt Reynolds and Sally Field starred in the box office, “Smokey and the Bandit.”
“Navigating fame at age 18 was an insensitive trick,” Schneider admitted. “… if it is carried out for the incredible actor Denver Pyle, who played my uncle Jesse, I think he would probably have crashed and burned from the beginning. I had made multiple television programs, and he was my mentor, my model to follow, and I don’t want them to call me to disappear because the disappearance.”
“I had a wonderful youth,” he said. “I’m not saying that I [didn’t have] A great moment, but I did it from the rails. And I am accrediting Denver Pyle for that … Denver Pyle is absolutely the number 1 reason for which I am still here. “
According to the Hollywood Reporter, it is known that annual fans conventions attract more than 100,000 spectators. But despite the lasting popularity of the program, it did not remain free of scandals.
In 2015, TV Land, the only network that transmits the series at that time, removes the air in the middle of the controversy about the representations of the Confederate flag, which many sees it as a symbol of hate of the slave era, the outlet reported.
Reuters also reported that fans taught social networks to express frustration for the network’s decision. A Change.org petition to bring the show was more than 1,800 followers.
In 2020, in the middle of the Black Lives Matter movement, there was a renewed fervor on the use of the flag, which is painted on the roof of the children’s trip, General Lee. Duke’s fictitious family resides in Georgia.
“I think in 2020, there were a group of people who offend everything,” said Schneider. “… they only sought to have a problem with something. I think everything is safe from canceling culture at this time. I think we have entered the time of common sense. ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ is a wonderful family show that never had a racist bone in his body, in his writing or his production.”
“I think what happened is, perhaps some of the people who had done some investigation … This meaningless complaint to the letter,” he continued. “I think they are now the program, and they have said:” Wait a minute, this is great. This is fun. This is a community. This is family. We want more than this, no less. “I think that is evidence by the Hollywood Museum at this time because of its beautiful exhibition.
Schneider said there is a good reason why “The Dukes of Hazard” has had loyal monitoring over the years.
“I think the legacy of ‘Dukes’ is that the most important thing we have is the community,” he shared. “That is a lesson that Uncle Jesse would teach us … I have had so many parents and grandparents who came to me and they tell me that this was the program that helped raise their children. I think it is important.
“Some programs are fun, some programs are exciting. Some programs are like” Little House on the Prairie “that teach wonderful lessons. But … very few shows were all that. ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ was all that, in addition to fast cars and jumping on the stream.”