Ten seasons of “The Goldbergs” end tonight. The Ten Seasons Music, Movies and Craze of the Eighties. Ten-year-old Beverly Goldberg’s big, overly disheveled hair that couldn’t move in a tornado, her blingy sweaters, and hugging her children to death while affectionately calling them “scumpy” or “boopy.” ending.
Wendy McLendon-Covey, the only actress of her kind to have played Bev for so many years, sat down with TheWrap to share what it’s like to say goodbye to her home of work after a decade.
McLendon-Covey said, “You have to be really grateful for what you have and don’t miss out on an amazing opportunity and just live in the moment every day and make the most of it.” “And I really, I think I’ve done that for the most part. Because things like this don’t come up all the time.
Therap: The entire cast always looked like you all were having a lot of fun.
Wendy McLendon-Covey: There are times when Church laughs very badly. You know, sometimes people ask, how do you keep a straight face? I can’t. Sometimes I’m the worst when it comes to being broke, but it makes you happier at work than most, you know?
nice to see the scene Giambrone (Adam) grow up over the years. What has it been like for you playing her mother and watching her grow into an adult? Do you have a maternal relationship?
McLendon-Covey: Oh yes. And I think we all felt that way… Every cast member, every crew member, we always looked for the scene. Because he was such a sweet special little friend that we couldn’t imagine him being corrupt in any way, so we’d try to be… really careful with him because we were working long hours and Sean , Obviously, only one could work set the number of hours, but going to school in the middle of his duty that day. That’s a lot to put on one person. And he never wavered. He never threw tantrums. He never felt tired. He was always polite. It was always “please” and “thank you”. It was like, “Never change!” … And when her voice started changing, there would be nasty comments on social media, and I would get very angry. and I’ll throw it back at people sometimes, you know, that’s In fact What does anyone need me to do? But I felt like I needed to. … I know I’m not really this child’s mother, but I feel protective of him.
I want to ask you about the death of George Segal (Pops).
McLendon-Covey: We were shooting during COVID and he had a lot of close calls, but he kept getting through it, you know. Like his house is on fire. He was living in Santa Rosa, and so we would either have someone drive him down or fly him over every couple of weeks so we could shoot everything with him. Then there was a fire and he came out of it. And then there was Covid and he recovered from it. And then I think there was some other disease, and he recovered from it. His wife got really sick. We passed through it. He went and did the operation. He passed through it. And then it was, “Oh, George’s gone.” And it felt like the floor had come out from under us. And we were shooting on the beach the day we found out – we were shooting at Goldberg’s beach house. And so it was a weird day where we were all together at the beach. And when we found out, there we were. And it was devastating. And immediately there were tears and immediately like, “What are we doing? What are we doing?” … Sean and I, maybe like two weeks ago, spent a night where we had George over. And he was very talkative that night, and he was just telling us stories and telling us stories. and i look back [know] How lucky were we to have him with us that night? And that was the last time we saw him.
Did You Have Beverly Goldberg Hair in the ’80s?
McLendon-Covey: Perms were a big thing and you wanted your hair to be as dry as it could be, as crunchy as it could be. And blondes don’t take to perms very well, so I could never get the spiral curls that were so popular. So I had to use those pink rollers. Sometimes I would go to school in my cheerleading outfit for a while before school in my rollers, looking so glamorous.
One of her wigs now has permanent residence in your home.
McLendon-Covey: The wig is sitting here in my dressing room at home. Yes. I have a few wigs from different things. So I have my wig lineup and she’s there and she’ll be sitting there. She is very delicate at this time. I am scared to remove her wig from my head.
Beverly’s sweaters – Have you ever looked at one of her outfits and said, “I In fact I don’t want to put it, but I’m leaving”?
McLendon-Covey: I fixed it in my head. Like, look every day you’re going to open that closet and it’s going to be something you don’t want to wear because it’s itchy or ridiculous and you do it. This is what the character will wear. And all the moms I knew in the ’80s wore similar clothes. So the only time I said, “Please, why do you hate me?” … It was like these Miss Piggy pink overalls.
How was the 1980s for you personally?
I was going through middle school. I graduated from high school in 87, and I really thought we had arrived, like the 80s were as good as it was going to get for anything. Technology, we thought was there, you know? Those big brick sized cell phones. … The music was the best. The movies were the best. There was just an optimism about the ’80s that we don’t have anymore because we have 24-hour news, so there’s something to bang you about constantly. But at that point we didn’t need to know every stupid thing that was going on. … So it was happy times, I guess. But living now, living in my eighties, twice now, I’ve had enough.