Melora Hardin

Melora Hardin Only beautiful memories of her time Small house on the grassland Work with the series director Michael Landon.
“Michael Landon makes everyone feel safe,” Harding, 57, told Fox News numbers in an interview released Saturday, March 15, adding that she had been in the show business “for a long time” before being cast by the Prairie.
“He trusts us, we trust him,” she said of Langdon’s relationship with other “prairie” children. “He has protection for us. I think that’s one of the most important lessons I learned early on. [in Hollywood] – Be with someone who makes you feel safe. ”
The office alum took part in the audition for the series when she was 9 and returned at 13 to portray a character named Belinda, Matthew LabyorteauxAlbert Ingalls. According to Hardin, Landon, who directed the series, also starred in patriarch Charles “PA” Ingalls, who is “so warm” and “a great work with the kids”. (Landon died in 1991 and he also made the series and wrote several episodes.)
“I’ve always said that acting and making movies and television is one of the greatest teams around. I believe Michael Landon is my first example,” Harding continued. “I learn from him right away. And it’s amazing to feel safe with people who make you feel safe in front of you. It’s great to be a performer, especially that young performer, not often judged or challenged.”

She added: “It’s about working with great collaborators instead of tolerating A holes. He doesn’t have any A holes. I think it’s very important. If you feel safe, you can do it well.” She explained: “He really knows how to make us comfortable. He’ll let us do our things. He’s not the director of the intervention. He’s happy.”
Harding told the media that by this point in her career, she has said with people like Langdon “with less good” people: “A lot of times I’ll do movies or something, I’m the only one [kid] In the room. I will be the only one in the classroom with Teacher Set. ”
But Harding said while working in a small house on the prairie, the kids “go to school, go to school with you, it’s so fun to work with you.”
She added: “It’s so happy when you go to class with other kids and then work with them. That’s so happy. We also play games. Being a child actor is a really fun way to go. Of course, that’s a highlight.”
The original little house of the prairie TV series, with Laura Ingalls WilderBooks of the same name, from 1974 to 1984. The series also appeared Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle and Melissa Sue Anderson As someone from the other pioneer Ingalls family.
“He has a long relationship with the crew and he surrounds people he really trusts,” Harding said. “So it’s seamless. He’s just happy. I never felt that he was under pressure. Maybe he’s [working behind the scenes]but I never felt it. He seemed to just have fun…everyone smiled in my world as a kid. ”