As a teenager in the 90s, Punky Brewster star Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went and documented her experiences with friends and fellow child stars. Now, she s opening the time capsule in Hulu s new documentary. I had photographs everywhere. And then I saved all the voicemails and all the videos and all the pictures, Frye said. It was amazing. And diaries!
Frye recorded hundreds of hours of footage of herself, her friends and her life. Then, she locked it all away from more than 20 years. There were some wild times, Frye said. I went through a stage of experimenting a little but there s also a lot of innocence.
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What to Watch in March: Godzilla vs. Kong, New MCU Series and Prince Akeem Returns to America
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The first two months of 2021 have brought no shortage of compelling, even great, movies and TV series but in March we’re getting some full-on events. A big, new animated Disney movie! Eddie Murphy returns to one of his most famous roles! Godzilla fights King Kong! Zack Snyder fights the limitations of a theatrical running time! It’s madness in the month of March! (If only there was some kind of pithy phrase that could be used to describe such a thing).
Once and forever Punky Brewster Soleil Moon Frye was on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the Peacock “continuation” of her old NBC sitcom and her new documentary about growing up in Hollywood, Kid 90.
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