What happened to Teeny?

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I want to talk about how they replaced Jolean Wejbe with Bella Thorne for the part of Teenie. Wtf were they thinking?

The scene where they re-introduce Teenie, they pan up from her feet to her face. She is in a bathing suit standing next to the pool in the back yard. I'm looking at her thinking, who the heck is that and what is she doing there? It just seemed so out of place.

But the worst part is that they fired the original Teenie from the show! It's not like she left the show on her own. She was let go because they no longer felt she suited the part because she had grown too much. And because those morons thought that replacing her would be seamless because she had gone away to camp and now come back as a new person, literally!

Will Scheffer on their decision about recasting the part of Teenie:

Because our show is structured so tightly, we usually don’t have year-breaks between seasons in show time. We never have time for our characters to age with our actors, which is OK generally. Luckily Wayne, God bless him, hasn’t had a growth spurt yet, knock on wood. He just gets older and older and stays Wayne, you know? But unfortunately our Teenie [Jolean Wejbe] — our cute little pixie — just shot up. By the time she was 13 playing 11, she started to become tall and looked like she was turning into a 15-year-old.

So what we decided to do was recast. And I think we’ve handled this in a way that is very flawless, so that when Teenie comes home from camp…it’s almost like you don’t even realize that there’s been a change. You kind of get a sense of how Teenie’s changed over the course of her time at camp, and how she’s gone from being this confused girl showing pornography to the neighborhood boys, and comes back as this more controlled, LDS kind of girl. You almost think well, that’s the same actress: Her character’s changed because she’s been away at an LDS camp. It was a very difficult decision to make, and we were afraid that it would bug people. But I feel now that it was the right decision, and it just gives us so many opportunities now to play more of Teenie, and have that character much more active in the life of the series.

I think it's funny how the last thing he said was that by recasting they are giving more life to the character on the series. When in fact Bella Thorne only starred in 4 or 5 episodes and didn't even show her face much in any of them. I have nothing against Bella Thorne. But it was just a terrible decision on their part to recast. There was nothing wrong with the old Teenie! So what if Teenie comes home from camp and has grown 6 inches? Kids grow! That shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. And that makes more sense continuity-wise than being replaced by someone entirely different!

Don't fix what isn't broken!


Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/01/more-to-big-love-cocreator-will-scheffer-talks-season-4.html

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