Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight opens up about challenges of being a child actor
The Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight has admitted it wasn’t his idea to be a child actor.
Knight starred as Peter Brady on the hit ’60s and ’70s sitcom from the age of 10.
On the I Choose Me with Jennie Garth podcast, Knight and host Jennie Garth, who was a teen when she starred on Beverly Hills, 90210, reflected on the impact of starting out in the industry at a young age.
“You’re forming yourself, you’re forming an idea of self,” Knight said.
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“If I had kids, I would try to keep them away from show business until they’re 18.”
The actor explained: “I don’t think there’s any success of consequence to anybody in this industry, you know, as a child, that will help as an adult, and the chances of you falling apart in the process.”
The Brady Bunch star then remarked, “isn’t that your parents’ job to work, not you?”
Knight’s dad, who had been an actor himself, was the one to get him and his brother into acting when they were young.
While the star said The Brady Bunch set was a “wholesome environment” to work in, he was “happy” when the series came to an end in 1974 when he was 16.
“At least initially because I wanted to go to school,” he explained.
“It wasn’t my idea to be an actor, though I was getting so much from it and very much appreciated it.
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“I hadn’t decided on what I wanted to do with my life,” he said.
After rising to fame on The Brady Bunch, Knight had some small roles on shows like Happy Days before he stepped back from acting.
The star went on to work in the computer industry in the ’90s.
He returned for some sequel projects with his The Brady Bunch co-stars over the years, such as the The Brady Girls Get Married in 1981 and The Bradys.
He later returned to the world of television for the 2003 reality series The Surreal Life.
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