Soleil Moon Frye as Punky Brewster in the 1984 and today, as the director of the new documentary “Kid 90.” Everett Collection/Hulu “It’s so funny to be like ‘Wow, that really happened!’” she said. The duo reminisced about a particular incident in which a then-12 year old Green stole a motorcycle from a friend’s older brother and drove it to Frye’s house. There were things that were so funny because I would read from a diary to Brian and we’d be completely picking on each other the way we did as kids, like ‘Oh is that how you remember it? Really?’” And so that was just amazing to reconnect. “Brian and I had not caught up a whole lot over the years and he’s always been one of the closest people in my life. Over the four years she spent making “Kid 90”, she also reconnected with old friends who appear in it, she said. There were also plenty of detours down memory lane that were fun.
“There was a lot of contemplation and processing.” ‘Kid 90’ documentary shows former child stars partying, doing drugsĭigging into the darker parts of her teen years for the documentary was “incredibly therapeutic,” she said. I certainly asked myself, ‘Could I have been there more for my friends. It was also so beautiful discovering footage that I didn’t even know was there, like him coming to visit me after the hospital. To hear those messages was a gift - and also it was incredibly painful. So he would leave me these 20-30 minute messages to fill up the tape on my machine, and then in the last 30 seconds would be him sharing his true feelings. “Jonathan and I would have this funny thing where we would fill up each other’s voicemails. “It was incredible sitting in the edit bay listening to the audio recordings and watching the videos and weeping throughout the process,” she said. Soleil Moon Frye and Jonathan Brandis in a flashback scene from “Kid 90.” Soleil Moon Frye We were dating other people, but then we’d kiss but we were also best friends,” Frye said on-screen) and losing friends tragically too soon, such as actor/model Jonathan Brandis, who died by suicide in 2003. Big), her relationship with House of Pain rapper Daniel “Danny Boy” O’Connor (“It was confusing. Personal revelations in the documentary include Frye’s body image issues as a teen (when she was cruelly dubbed ‘Punky Boobster’) leading to her breast reduction surgery at age 16 losing her virginity to Charlie Sheen (she dubs him her “Mr. “There were like, 12 kids in the business, so we all knew each other,” Brian Austin Green, 47, explained on-screen. Soleil Moon Frye: Charlie Sheen was my ‘Mr. “Kid 90” is a coming-of-age story that explores how sometimes we need to look back to find our way forward.įrye, who became famous at age 7 for playing the plucky lead in NBC sitcom “Punky Brewster” (1984-1988), filmed many of her teenage partying antics long before Gen Z made that practice ubiquitous - and as “Kid 90” shows, her social circle included just about every young person in Hollywood of the era. I was surprised every step of the way.” Throughout the the ‘90s, Soleil Moon Frye - seen here with a young Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg - carried a video camera everywhere she went, documenting her group of friends as they grew up in Hollywood and NYC. And then as I peeled back the onion more and more and dug deeper, it became this deeply personal coming of age story - both of the teen me and the adult me. When I set out to make the documentary, it wasn’t focused on me at all. “I didn’t realize in opening up the Pandora’s Box just what an emotional journey this was going to be. And then there was also a great deal of pain,” said Frye, who’s currently starring in the new “Punky Brewster” revival on the Peacock streaming platform.
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“The way I remembered our lives had been so joyful, full of light and love and bliss. “There were so many memories that I had buried away,” Frye, 44, told The Post. Some featured players survived an often unforgiving industry - others met tragically untimely ends. Now streaming on Hulu, the raw, revealing documentary sees the “Punky Brewster” star examine her teen years through her old diaries, video footage and even voicemail messages - interspersed with recent interviews with her fellow ‘90s child and teen star pals including Brian Austin Green, David Arquette, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Balthazar Getty. Soleil Moon Frye said she never intended for “Kid 90” to expose so much.
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