In 1995, Carter retired from Barney - the TV show and the traveling live shows - and went to work at a Minyard grocery store. Eventually, production moved to Las Colinas, and "from there, it was history,” he says. “He’s a people’s person, and he made the perfect Barney.”Ĭarter was with Barney from the start in 1988, when the show shot home videos in Allen. “He’s such a character,” Carter says of Joyner. Twice.īut Rickey Carter, who played Derek on the show for 29 episodes, says Joyner was his acting coach before landing the gig as the purple dinosaur. Joyner declined our request for an interview. Joyner, who played Barney on Barney & Friends from 1992 to 2000, made news earlier this year when Vice interviewed him about running a tantric sex business. Instead, he does voice acting for Dragon Ball Z and is in a Dallas-based Beastie Boys tribute band. Today, Martin doesn't deal with any heavy costumes. "I ran off the stage right before we were fixin' to seat. That's when all the smoke billowing inside of the costume came out of the costume, and everybody on set could see it and saw me running offstage." "One of the fans at the time, the way that they were wired, had grounded out on one of the bolts inside the costume, and I didn't know it until had built up inside the head and I couldn't breathe anymore," Martin says. He says there were fans inside the costume to help cool down the 120-degree heat, but he could only turn them on when he wasn't near the children because their microphones would pick up the sound of the fans. While Martin was touring the world as Barney, he performed hour-and-a-half shows while wearing the 50-pound costume. He appeared in costume on the TV show in the summer of 1997. Stinson still keeps in touch with several Barney cast and crew members, including Josh Martin, who played Barney on the stage show from 1996-98. I would be lip-syncing to the song, but if he saw me jump and wanted to add an ad lib, I would just go with it.”
“The songs were recorded, but that allowed him also to be live. If Barney was on a live TV show, like Good Morning America or the Rosie O’Donnell Show, Wendt was in the wings, watching the monitors and speaking for Stinson in costume. Stinson says it was “physically not possible” to do both the dancing and singing. While Stinson’s muscles and sweat were behind the physical Barney, Dean Wendt provided Barney’s voice. Stinson, who was in his mid-30s when Lovato and Gomez were about 10, didn’t have much to say about it. “You have to be very fit, right, to do that because it’s 50 pounds of a costume, so he would take it off, and he’s got his muscles and he’s sweating and we’re like, ‘OK, we are children,’” Gomez said. Gomez echoed Lovato’s thoughts on BBC Radio 1. And I’ve always gone for older guys, so even when I was younger, I thought the guy in the suit was hot.” “Barney was actually very attractive,” Lovato told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. Lovato and Gomez each has said she had a crush on Stinson while working on Barney. They were all really sweet and very professional, and they were fun to work with.” Demi was a little quieter she was a little shy back then. “It didn't really surprise any of us that she was so successful. We all kind of knew that Selena was gonna be successful,” Stinson says. Today, Stinson is an art and concert photographer in the DFW area, and his former co-stars, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, are the faces of young Hollywood. April 6 marked the 26th anniversary of the iconic children’s TV show, and for nine of the 17 years it aired, Stinson entertained children as the Barney brand exploded. In 2000, Stinson took over for Joyner and stepped into the 50-pound purple costume on the television series. While David Joyner played Barney on Barney & Friends, Stinson was busy entertaining America on national mall tours and stage shows for several years. When PBS picked up the television show Barney & Friends, the birthday parties ceased and Barney’s creator, Sheryl Leach, asked Stinson to audition for the second Barney. After hearing about the dino, he performed as Barney at children’s birthday parties all over Dallas for about a year, he says. This was way before the TV show.”īarney was a character available for kids’ birthday parties and the star of home videos for rent, called Barney and the Backyard Gang, which was shot in Allen.Īfter that day at Chili’s, 22 years of Stinson’s life involved the lovable Barney.
“I said, ‘What in the world is Barney?’ This was before the TV show. “One of the employees asked me, "Can you work Saturday for me because I have to be Barney?’” recalls Stinson, a Dallas native. Carey Stinson was a 23-year-old Chili's employee in 1991 when a co-worker first introduced him to Barney, the purple dinosaur.
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