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\nSPOILER ALERT:<\/strong>\u00a0This article contains spoilers for \u201cLittle House on the Prairie,\u201d now streaming on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPalm Royale\u201d star Crosby Fitzgerald swears she \u201cmanifested\u201d her role as Caroline \u201cMa\u201d Ingalls on Netflix\u2019s new \u201cLittle House on the Prairie\u201d adaptation by watching a lot of the streamer\u2019s \u201cAmerican Primeval\u201d before being cast.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI just wanted to be in something like that, from that time period, and truly the next day I got an email about \u2018Little House on the Prairie,’\u201d Fitzgerald tells Variety<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cCrime 101\u201d actress, who says she has been primarily nannying for the past 10 years while continuously going on auditions, didn\u2019t know if she could pull off the \u201cmeasured proper lady\u201d vibe of Ma at first. But after reading the script from creator Rebecca Sonnenshine, Fitzgerald realized \u201cthis wasn\u2019t some tropey story about the 1800s,\u201d and put everything she had into going out for the role. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think that Caroline Ingalls, the figure, she\u2019s Ma, and a lot of people understand her as this one type of person,\u201d Fitzgerald says. \u201cAnd the approach they took in the script was very much, this is a marriage of equals.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Laura Ingalls Wilder\u2019s \u201cLittle House\u201d novels, Netflix\u2019s \u201cLittle House on the Prairie\u201d reboot follows Caroline, Charles Ingalls (Luke Bracey) and their two daughters, Laura (Alice Halsey) and Mary (Skywalker Hughes), as they set out from their home in the \u201cBig Wood\u201d in Wisconsin to make a new life in the Kansas frontier. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s extremely risky \u2014 in our story, it\u2019s a risk that Charles is very willing to take,\u201d Fitzgerald says. \u201cI think that in that time, it was something you would do with a lot of people, you would do with a lot of family. It would be really rare to go alone, especially with two young daughters. And so I think her fear reflects that. Why are we doing this alone? Why don\u2019t we wait for our family? Ultimately, they have to, because of what happens at home. The way I look at it, there\u2019s this part of them that needed a push to take this really risky move and there\u2019s this very real drama with their extended family that makes them feel maybe it\u2019s time for us to go our own way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarly on in the first season of Netflix\u2019s \u201cLittle House on the Prairie,\u201d the show features a now-pregnant Caroline questioning Charles\u2019 choices and asserting her right to take the girls back to Wisconsin if he isn\u2019t honest with her about their finances and the realities of life on the prairie.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cCharles married her because I think he respects her opinion \u2014 and I think that she married him because he respects her opinion,\u201d Fitzgerald says. \u201cHer goal throughout the whole show is to keep her children safe, and so she\u2019ll do that at any cost. If that means telling your husband he\u2019s being an idiot, that\u2019s what it means. I think it wasn\u2019t hard for her in those moments to say what she felt and to be like, I\u2019ll do what it takes to keep my kids safe. She had a tumultuous life, and didn\u2019t want that to happen for them. I think standing up to him actually wasn\u2019t hard, because that\u2019s not the dynamic that they have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the Season 1 finale, the whole Ingalls family \u2014 including new baby, Grace \u2014 has just settled into their life in Independence, Kansas when a catastrophic fire destroys their crops and prompts another move. This time, they\u2019re off to Plum Creek, which audiences might remember as the main setting for NBC\u2019s iconic \u201cLittle House on the Prairie\u201d series from the \u201970s and \u201980s. It\u2019s where the Ingalls make a new home, and where Laura\u2019s coming-of-age story truly begins.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time of this interview, Fitzgerald was on set filming \u201cLittle House\u201d Season 2 with her on-screen family, and some new additions to the cast, including Willa Dunn as the iconic villain Nellie Oleson.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think people are gonna love Nellie Oleson in the same ways they loved her way back when,\u201d Fitzgerald says. \u201cAnd I think, similarly, this second season, which we\u2019re shooting now, deals with the main things that we love about the book, \u2018On the Banks of Plum Creek,\u2019 are all there, plus these fun extra components to the story that I think people are going to didn\u2019t really like. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut listen, there is a cow,\u201d Fitzgerald continues. \u201cI get to hang out with a cow, a baby cow, every day. So that\u2019s sort of what I\u2019m laser focused on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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