Though it’s been nearly 20 years sinceScott Wolfstarred as Bailey Salinger onParty of Five, the actor says he still sheds a tear or two when watching a rerun.
In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the 51-year-old father of three opens up about his time on the show and the possibility of an original cast reboot.
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One night, while he was in Albuquerque shootingThe Night Shift, Wolf “put on Netflix and totallyParty of Fiverabbit-holed myself.”
“I don’t even know how long later … hours, I had tears dripping down my face,” he admits. “I totally binged. I didn’t do in order. I was just zipping around. It was like a family reunion. I was surprised at how emotional it still made me after all that time. I think that was the defining quality of that show. It did feel honest.”
The original series premiered in 1994 and followed the lives of the five Salinger siblings, whose parents were killed in a drunk driving accident. Starring Wolf,Neve Campbell,Lacey Chabertand Matthew Fox, it ended after six seasons in 2000.
Anupcoming Freeform remakeof the show will follow a different family, the Acostas, as they learn to cope with separation when their parents are suddenly deported back to Mexico
Though Wolf often wonders where his character Bailey would be now, he says he’s content with how the show concluded.
“My wife recently was like, ‘You guys should do a true reboot,'” he says. “I’m curious where all those folks are. When you play characters for that long, they become part of your life.”
Still, “I feel like we left the show in a really great place,” he adds. “People look back on it that were fans of it. I don’t think we need to open that box back up. I’ve joked that we could do ‘A Very Salinger Christmas’ and go to Hawaii,Brady Bunch-style.”
And while Wolf says he found a “family” in his former costars Fox, Campbell and Chabert, he’s most proud of his own party of five: his wife of fifteen years, Kelley Limp, and their three children (Jackson, 10, Miller, 6, and Lucy, 5).
“The role of being a parent is the role of my lifetime,” he says. “In every way, in the most important way, the thing that comes to the surface is the perspective it gives you on what the point of this whole thing is and what we really have versus what we think we might have.”
“There’s people who are living lives all kinds of different ways, there’s a billion profound ways to live a life,” he continues. “For me, I always knew that having kids was part of that. And to be doing it with my wife of fifteen years now, to do it with someone I love so much — it’s my favorite show to watch.”
source: people.com
