Screenshot: Jimmy Kimmel Live
Appearing on Tuesday’s
Jimmy Kimmel Live, former and forever Punky Brewster Soleil Moon Frye came off as a blessedly normal, well-adjusted, and still-enthusiastic champion of her own self and career. That might seem like a low bar to clear and make note of, but the phrase “former child star” all too rarely fails to be followed by serious heartbreak and sadness, so good on her. And why shouldn’t Frye be happy? The let’s-just-try-it NBC offshoot that is Peacock has just handed the actress a decades-later “continuation” (in Frye’s words) of the life and spunky times of her iconic 1980s character in the new series