A brotherly bond! The three Lawrence brothers — Joey, Matthew and Andrew, respectively — aren’t any strangers to showcasing their sibling connection in actual life or on the massive display screen.
Brothers in actual life, additionally they performed onscreen siblings in NBC’s short-lived sitcom Brotherly Love from 1995 to 1997. (The second and remaining season aired through The WB.) The comedy adopted eldest brother Joe Roman (Joey Lawrence) when he returned to his hometown of Philadelphia one yr after his father’s loss of life. Intending to money out his share of the household enterprise, he quickly realized that the corporate — and his two youthful half-brothers Matt (Matthew Lawrence) and Andy (Andrew Lawrence) — wanted his assist.
“I get flashbacks all the time with these guys,” the Blossom alum instructed The Los Angeles Times in September 1995 of working together with his youthful brothers. “I was always being told to speak more slowly. I’m kind of in-between them, personality-wise. … Matt’s the quietest [and] I don’t know how Andy got so outgoing.”
The siblings — who additionally costarred in Disney Channel’s Horse Sense and Jumping Ship — portrayed fictional brothers, whose eventualities closely echoed their actual life. Decades later, the trio reunited on the small display screen for a number of episodes of Freeform’s Melissa & Joey, which starred Joey and Melissa Joan Hart.
“The [Lawrence] family’s pretty amazing to work with,” Melinda Culea, who performed Brotherly Love TV mother Claire, instructed The Los Angeles Times in September 1995. “There have never been any problems with them all on the set. It actually makes things flow easier.”
While the Philadelphia natives’ present solely lasted two seasons, they’ve since been candid a few potential reboot as adults.
“You know what’s so funny? When you actually get time to think about things, [I remembered] one of my representatives called me and said, ‘Hey, would you and your brothers think about this?’ I had a long conversation,” the Boy Meets World alum completely instructed Us Weekly in April 2020 in regards to the potential for a brand new model of the sitcom. “We’re talking to one of the creators from that show and they were talking about it.”
Matthew added on the time: “The conversation was literally, yesterday, just brought back up to me. I don’t know. I know we’d all love to do it. It’s just, I guess, timing. Timing is everything.”
While an official Brotherly Love revival has not been made as of 2022, the Lawrences have continued working collectively onscreen.
“We’re actually working on a TV show together for the first time in 15 years,” Joey beforehand instructed Entertainment Tonight in December 2017 of a forthcoming challenge they have been growing on the time. “We wanted to find a way not to redo Brotherly Love, but to bring us back together as grown men. It’s edgy, which is different. The dynamic and relationships that we have are not the late ’90s, sitcom-like relationships.”
Scroll under to meet up with the Brotherly Love forged greater than 20 years since its premiere:
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