It just hit me with full force that the Zoomers most likely have no idea she was on Growing Pains, or what Growing Pains even was
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I was seriously about to say "Has anyone had a better post-Growing Pains career" as a dunk on Kirk Cameron (and I guess Alan Thicke) but then I was like "Oh yeah Leo"
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Ha ha oh man Leonardo DiCaprio's big break was when they brought him in as the Cousin Oliver character to compete with Ashley Johnson as the cute kid on Growing Pains because apparently she wasn't cute enough
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Kind of a shitty thing to do to her but with the benefit of hindsight it's like "Fair enough"
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Anyway for those of you kids out there, it wasn't just the one show Being the cute bratty kid on sitcoms was Ashley Johnson's whole thing in the 90s They gave her her own show after Growing Pains (Phenom), she was DJ's girlfriend on Roseanne
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You can, if you like, read Ellie from The Last of Us as Johnson as an adult doing a grim gritty take on the kind of character she was typecast as as a child
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Oh man can you imagine if Joel in TLoU were Alan Thicke Ha ha oh that's so cursed
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Wasn’t she supposed to the Captain America love interest for CA2 before they cast Emily Vancamp?
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Joss Whedon has lowkey been one of Johnson's biggest fans for a long time now and has been trying to orchestrate her breaking out (or, I guess, breaking back in) Like he also fought for her to have a much bigger role in Dollhouse than she ended up getting
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