PEOPLE MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE – Fran Drescher’s Wild Second Act: After Divorce, Cancer and Being Underestimated, She’s Having a Major Moment
The star of ‘The Nanny’ thought she’d never work again after leading the SAG-AFTRA strike. Instead, she’s costarring in the Golden Globe-nominated film ‘Marty Supreme’ and out there having the time of her life.
- Fran Drescher is opening up about her wild Hollywood ride and new role in Marty Supreme in the latest PEOPLE cover story
- She gets candid about always being underestimated because of her looks — and her famous voice
- She says people are still obsessed with the ’90s sitcom, The Nanny, and she loves that younger stars like Sabrina Carpenter think Nanny Fine is a fashion icon
If you see Fran Drescher out and about, know that she has absolutely no problem with people coming up to her to say how much they love both her and The Nanny, the hit sitcom she co-created and starred on from 1993 to 1999.
“I feel very blessed by it!” she tells PEOPLE of being approached by fans every day. “People are still obsessed with that show…They’re mad for it!” She even has a theory as to why it’s still so popular.
“A lot of the millennials were kids when they first watched it,” the now-68-year-old says. “Then they grew up, and are realizing how great it was on levels they didn’t recognize when they were younger. The clothes, the jokes, the gay humor, the sexual tension, all of that kind of went over their heads. But back when it was airing, they used to have Nanny nights at the gay bars where everyone would go watch it together.”