Cheryl Ladd says there was "a lot of love in that room" when they walked on stage with Kate Jackson on Monday night The Television Academy may have celebrated the 50th anniversary of “Charlie’s Angels” at the Emmys on Monday night with an onstage reunion of the show’s stars Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd, but the TV organization wasn’t as generous to the Aaron Spelling series when it originally aired in the 70s. Jackson earned two acting nods and David Doyle, who played Bosley, was nominated once. A sound editing nomination was picked up in 1977.
They didn’t see the weight or the depth of the devotion of the girls to each other. They thought it was fluff, and Aaron said, ‘It’s eye candy.’ But he also gave it narrative. He gave enough danger to keep you leaning forward.
It had a little bit of everything.” Little did most anyone know back then that “Charlie’s Angels” would go on to have a multigenerational fanbase for a half-century. Farrah Fawcett played Jill Munroe with Smith as Kelly Garrett and Jackson as Sabrina Duncan. Ladd joined the series as Jill’s sister, Kris Munroe, after Fawcett left the show following the first season due to contract disputes with Spelling.
John Forsythe was the voice of Charlie, the Angels’ boss who was never seen on screen. Ladd says their off-screen camaraderie mimicked what TV audiences saw on the small screen. We weren’t like, ‘I’m better than you,’” she says.
I thought that was just such a great way to bring women together and to give them strength.” Earlier this year, Smith, Jackson and Ladd appeared at a 50-year celebration at PaleyFest in Los Angeles. But it’s still rewarding to think that when something has some magic, it’s lasting and it still brings joy to many generations.” Ladd says of their Emmys reunion, “There was a lot of love in that room for us, and I really appreciated that. I could feel it.” Smith, who is currently on a nationwide tour promoting her new memoir “I Once Knew a Guy Named Charlie,” says she enjoyed the two “Charlie ‘Angels” movies in 2000 and 2003 that starred Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu.
She took it a step further. She evolved it,” Smith says. It was diving off buildings, escaping explosions and still tongue in cheek.” While Smith calls Elizabeth Banks a “great and talented” filmmaker, she’s not surprised that her 2019 “Charlie’s Angel” movie, toplined by Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska, failed to reach audiences.
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