Kyle Richards is hoping to return to the Little House on the Prairie universe, revealing that she has already asked the team behind Netflix’s new adaptation for a cameo.
Richards told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Aug. 9 that she pitched herself for an appearance in the new series, which premiered on Netflix this summer.
“I would love to make an appearance. Don’t think I didn’t ask them!” she said.
Richards previously appeared in the original Little House on the Prairie series, which ran from 1974 to 1983.
She played Alicia Sanderson Edwards, the adopted daughter of Isaiah and Grace Edwards, portrayed by Victor French and Bonnie Bartlett. Richards appeared in 19 episodes beginning in the show’s second season.
However, producers told Richards that the Netflix adaptation begins before her character appears in the original story.
The first season, starring Alice Halsey as Laura and Luke Bracey as Charles Ingalls, is set on the prairie near Independence, Kansas. By the finale, the family agrees to move to Walnut Grove, the primary setting of the original series.
Richards said she was still willing to take on another role to make a cameo happen.
“I’m like, ‘Well, whatever. I can do a cameo and play someone else,’” Richards said. “So, yeah, I want to be on the new Little House on the Prairie!”
Watching the new adaptation has also brought back memories of her childhood on the original series.
“I was telling my daughters, I can’t help but walk down memory lane watching that and seeing the man who’s playing Mr. Edwards, who was my dad on the show, and everything,” she said.
Warren Christie plays Mr. Edwards in Netflix’s adaptation.
Richards also recalled starting the original series at just five years old and the experience of wearing period costumes. “It’s just really taking me back,” she said.