'Happily Divorced's' Fran Drescher: How I Turned Real-Life Divorce Into TV Land Comedy So, you know, I might as well be flashy.” I want to give everybody a lot of bang for their buck, and I know that they obsess on my clothes.
I’ve never dressed schlumpy or average or regular. “And somebody’s gotta be eye candy with the clothes! I love clothes and I love dressing in a show. But I said, ‘look, you have to let me give my audience what they want.’ I don’t want to disappoint them,” she says. “On this show I’m the oldest one in the cast, and I’m always wearing heels and tight dresses. On Indebted, she’s still wearing clothing that would make Fran Fine proud. Throughout this interview, which took place on the patio of her hotel room following the Indebted panel at the 2020 Television Critics Association winter press tour, Drescher was clad in head-to-toe black cashmere loungewear, having changed out of a demure tailored wool suit. It’ll provide ample opportunity to showcase the tight, patterned, sequined fashion that helped make Drescher a household name - and a Gen Z fashion icon ( one instagram account dedicated to identifying Fran Fine’s clothing has nearly 300,000 followers, and Cardi B has spoken on many occasions about how much she loves the character).īut Fran Fine’s outfits are really just a slightly exaggerated version of what Drescher herself likes to wear.
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So that was what Peter and I really had to crack the code on,” she explains. “There’s a difference between doing a sitcom that lasts for six years and doing a finite story that’s over in two and a half hours. 'The Nanny' in Development as Broadway Musical While details on that production are scant, the actress reveals that it will take place in the ’90s and feature a new star - “someone spectacular who’ll make it her own event” - with a story that’s “not really been done before.” And because it seemed like there were very nice people, it’s a Jewish family, you know, just - go for it.”ĭrescher was already in close contact with Sony as she quietly worked on the Nanny musical, which had been in the works for a while but wasn’t announced until the deals closed for the entire creative team - joining Drescher and co-creator Peter Marc Jacobson are Marc Bruni, Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger. And because it’s the studio I’ve already been working with, because it’s at the studio that’s nearest to my house, because it’s NBC, everybody can find the peacock network. They’ll do, like, the top 60 channels and it wasn’t one of them. Everybody’s got a different channel that comes in on, they can’t find it, and it was never in the local paper listing, that network. They could never, their friends could never find me on TV Land. So I thought, you know, let me give them this gift. “It was farther ahead of anything that I was just about to go out and pitch. And it’s kind of a mitzvah and this was already moving forward,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “You know, my parents really get excited when I’m on TV. Adam Pally on Punching Baby Yoda and a 'Happy Endings' Revival