{"id":1394655,"date":"2022-03-22T17:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394655"},"modified":"2022-03-22T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:15:14","slug":"gabrielle-union-explains-why-a-blended-family-replaced-the-original-in-cheaper-by-the-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabrielle-union-explains-why-a-blended-family-replaced-the-original-in-cheaper-by-the-dozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Union Explains Why A \u2018Blended\u2019 Family Replaced The Original In \u2018Cheaper By The Dozen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgabrielle-union-explains-why-a-blended-family-replaced-the-original-in-cheaper-by-the-dozen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394655&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Cheaper-By-the-Dozen-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cCheaper By the Dozen\u201d is the beloved, true story of a family with twelve children and how they grew up in the early twentieth century. It began as a biographical book written by two brothers about their parents, Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, and their everyday lives in Montclair, New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first attempt to make the book into a movie occurred in 1950 and that story relied heavily on the book for source material. A 2003 remake starring Steven Martin and Bonnie Hunt got mixed reviews. Now, the 2022 version is being criticized for modernizing the content so much that it barely resembles the original premise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The funny thing about \u201cCheaper By the Dozen\u201d was the family anecdotes about cooperating in a large family. However, the star of the newest movie, actress\/activist Gabrielle Union, defended the decision to change the entire premise of the story to include a blended family rather than one which included a husband and wife who had twelve children together. She also expressed why it was so important to include different races in the newest movie version.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe thing about all of those movies is they were all devoid of color. No people of color, no different, you know, cultures, languages, there is zero diversity at all. And in a lot of family fare, certainly the more classic, unless they\u2019re cartoons and like not humans, there\u2019s just very, very little diversity,\u201d the 49-year-old actress told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/interviews\/cheaper-by-the-dozens-gabrielle-union-joined-the-disney-movie-because-she-saw-zero-diversity-in-family-movies-while-growing-up\"><span>CinemaBlend<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was talking about this earlier today. I think one of the first films that I saw of brown people living in a multi-generational household where everyone\u2019s talents were celebrated was \u2018Encanto,\u2019 and that just came out, you know what I mean?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Critics argued that the change to a blended family made it more like the classic \u201cYours, Mine, and Ours\u201d than \u201cCheaper By the Dozen.\u201d Even the title doesn\u2019t make sense anymore. Apparently, that line came from one of Frank Sr.\u2019s favorite jokes, which was to reply that children were \u201ccheaper by the dozen\u201d when asked why he had so many. In the 2022 version, the blended family only has ten, not twelve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Union, who served as executive producer on the project, also said her personal history was an inspiration for the movie\u2019s premise. As she told CinemaBlend:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo having a blended family of my own, and you know, being a part of the dozens of cousins, which we are the largest Black family in the state of Nebraska, one of the largest in the Midwest. We\u2019ve always had a grandma that lived with us, or an aunt or a cousin, or neighborhood kids. Like, that\u2019s just how we got down, we do believe we are our brother\u2019s keeper.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She continued, discussing how it was important for her to represent \u201cdifferent\u201d families that weren\u2019t \u201ctraditional\u201d to normalize every type of arrangement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo, we wanted a family that represented what pretty much most communities of color have been doing since the dawn of time anyway. But our families are generally held up as a sign of failure if you don\u2019t have the quote, unquote, traditional family, which I think is a bunch of BS and just use to shame folks for surviving any way they can. But our kinds of families are rarely celebrated, much less represented on screen. So, I wanted to be a part of rectifying that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even mainstream critics weren\u2019t enamored by the latest offering, calling it, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gabrielle-union-stars-in-disneys-woke-cheaper-by-the-dozen-disaster\">worse than formulaic<\/a>\u201d and \u201clazy and condescending to its audience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s enough to make moviegoers question why this totally different re-telling is considered a remake of the beloved original at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Enter for the chance to hang out with Gina Carano at the premiere of her new Daily Wire movie, Terror on the Prairie! 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