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09-20-2025, 01:39 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/barbara-eden-recalls-her-worst-210836319.html
Nicole Moore
Fri, September 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM PDT
Actress Barbara Eden is sharing details about a physically uncomfortable moment from the beloved sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie.
While speaking to People magazine in September 2025, in celebration of the NBC show's 60th anniversary, Eden discussed portraying the sometimes sneaky, but always charming, genie. After she shared that her favorite moment from the five-season show was its 1965 pilot, "The Lady in the Bottle," Eden revealed her "least favorite moment" while playing Jeannie. According to Eden, there was a situation where no one helped her out of Jeannie's bottle. On-set photos show that the interior of "the bottle" was elevated, meaning she needed a ladder to get in or out.
"I think the only time, and it was when the crew and Larry [Hagman, who played Major Anthony Nelson] and the whole cast left me in the bottle at lunchtime and I was starving. I couldn't get out of the bottle," said Eden during the People interview. "I had done the scene in the bottle, but I couldn't get in or out of it. There was no ladder, and I yelled and I screamed. But everything else was always comfortable. No, well, I [as Jeannie] was stuck in the safe [in Season 3]. That wasn't comfortable."
Nicole Moore
Fri, September 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM PDT
Actress Barbara Eden is sharing details about a physically uncomfortable moment from the beloved sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie.
While speaking to People magazine in September 2025, in celebration of the NBC show's 60th anniversary, Eden discussed portraying the sometimes sneaky, but always charming, genie. After she shared that her favorite moment from the five-season show was its 1965 pilot, "The Lady in the Bottle," Eden revealed her "least favorite moment" while playing Jeannie. According to Eden, there was a situation where no one helped her out of Jeannie's bottle. On-set photos show that the interior of "the bottle" was elevated, meaning she needed a ladder to get in or out.
"I think the only time, and it was when the crew and Larry [Hagman, who played Major Anthony Nelson] and the whole cast left me in the bottle at lunchtime and I was starving. I couldn't get out of the bottle," said Eden during the People interview. "I had done the scene in the bottle, but I couldn't get in or out of it. There was no ladder, and I yelled and I screamed. But everything else was always comfortable. No, well, I [as Jeannie] was stuck in the safe [in Season 3]. That wasn't comfortable."