By Shawn Smith
Expect to see some familiar faces as well as some new young ones in the DUCK DYNASTY reboot DUCK DYNASTY: THE REVIVAL.
“I feel like just so much more planning, prep, thought goes into it,” Mary Kate Robertson, John Luke Robertson’s wife, explained on the “Whoa That’s Good” podcast.
The extra preparation is mainly because of the growing Robertson clan, namely all the young children, including Sadie Robertson Huff’s daughters Honey and Haven. Mary Kate, who shares two young children, John and Ella, with John Luke, is mindful of the impact that being in front of the camera can have during their children’s formative years.
“This is their, like, childhood, you know, and I feel like there feels some pressure…just how we’re shaping their lives…while they’re young children, so it takes a lot more extra work,” she continued. “But it’s been fun.”
Working on a TV show isn’t all hard work, though, as Korie Robertson recalled her youngest daughter Bella and her son Will’s fond memories of the original DUCK DYNASTY show.
“She and Will are like, ‘It was the most fun times of our life. We got to have a redneck water park. We got to dig in the mud,’” Korie said. “‘We got to do all these special things with our grandparents and our aunts and uncles that we wouldn’t have done necessarily otherwise.’”
Korie points out that her children were older than Mary Kate’s and Sadie’s during the time of the original show, which ran for 11 seasons.
“But there are definitely complexities to it,” she admitted. “It is not easy is because this is filming a television show…so doing it…with toddlers and babies I didn’t experience.”
Sadie, in an interview with Taste of Country, pointed out the difference of being on TV when when she was 13 years old compared to her children who were 1 and 3-years-old at the time of the filming the first season of THE REVIVAL.
“So at first it was super weird. Like, they didn’t want to wear a microphone. The microphone was annoying to them, but they had a blast that we were all doing so much together all the time,” Sadie, who’s expecting her third child, said. “So they’re like, this is awesome, but I don’t want to wear that microphone.’”
Two of the Robertsons absent from this season of the show are Jase and Jep, Phil and Kay Robertson’s sons. Sadie revealed there’s a simple reason for that.
“Jase and them don’t work here [at Duck Commander] anymore,” she explained.
She went on to say that her mom runs the Duck Commander, her sister runs the Duck Commander store, and Sadie herself runs her podcast studio out of the same office. Jase, meanwhile, still hosts the podcast “Unashamed,” and Jep is busy with other business ventures.
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“There’s no other reason than that why Jase is not as much on it, or Jep…but the next season, they will be a little more based off some fun things that we have going on with them,” she added.
Sadie’s husband, Christian Huff, appears in the reboot, and while he the more reserved of the couple, she says that audiences will be surprised by his “crazy” side.
“He…has shown his full personality that I love and fell in love with, and I’m excited for people to see that in him, because he really is such a funny guy, and just like so much fun to be around,” the Louisiana native said.
Case in point is the episode where he and Bella’s husband, Jacob, are made to wear pregnancy empathy bellies to see who can last the longest in them.
“Who wore it best? Bella and Sadie put their hubbies to the ultimate empathy test — and it’s hilarious,” the caption on Instagram read along with a clip of the video.
You can watch more Robertson fun and shenanigans on A&E Sundays 9/8c.
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