‘Home Improvement’ Co-Star Credits Roseanne Barr For Breaking the Mold of Female Characters in Hollywood

In a recent interview “Home Improvement” co-star Patricia Richardson credited Roseanne Barr for breaking the mold of female characters in Hollywood.

Richardson played the wife of Tim Allen’s character on the show “Home Improvement” for eight seasons before leaving to spend more time with her family.

In the interview, Richardson also said that she took the role due to the fact that Matt Williams, who created “Roseanne,” was one of the writers for the show.

Richardson explained, “When they told me that these guys that created the show were the guys that created ‘Roseanne,’ I went, ‘Oh, OK, my favorite show, my maybe favorite female character on television.’ And obviously, they can write women.”

At another point in the interview, Richardson said, “I always give credit to ‘Roseanne’ because before ‘Roseanne,’ every mother sort of had to look perfect. Be perfect.”

“That was what I loved so much about her when I was, you know, in bed with my pregnancy and just being a mom. And I would watch her, and I’d be like, ‘Yes, this woman, oh my gosh, this woman, this family,'” Richardson pointed out.

Richardson continued, “I think women have changed a lot. I mean, that’s one of the biggest changes and of course, obviously, it’s gotten a little more realistic, maybe too much so.”

“I think that reality television has been bad for America. For years and forever, people watch television the way they read the newspaper or books or anything that’s really out there in society,” Richardson noted.

Richardson opined, “They judge what’s normal by seeing what’s on television because it’s like, you think, ‘I thought I was the only person who felt that or thought that or the only family that has this problem.'”

“And then you see on TV, well, this is how they’re handling it. And TV used to be much more so idealized characters. And so that probably helped keep society in order, and now you have reality TV. I know somebody who cast all those shows. I mean, the really successful ones, and they look for people who are going to be difficult and cantankerous, and they look for that. And then people watch that and they think that’s what’s normal. It’s not normal,” Richardson added.