Alyssa Milano Remembers ‘Who’s the Boss?’ Bra Episode Impressed By Her
As Alyssa Milano got here of age on Who’s the Boss?, her breakout position turned out to be a case of artwork imitating life.
Marking the ABC sitcom’s fortieth anniversary, the previous youngster star just lately recalled how her preteen character Samantha Micelli was largely impressed by her personal childhood, together with when she “began creating breasts.”
“Lots of Sam was primarily based on who I used to be as a child, which was somebody who beloved sports activities, a tomboy, somebody who beloved her household, powerful, scrappy, and all the things that type of went on in my adolescence,” she defined to Folks.
“Like, I bear in mind once I began creating breasts, I walked within the subsequent week and there was a script known as ‘Sam’s First Bra,’” added Milano. “So it was like, all the things that occurred in my life, they wrote it within the present.”
Airing on Jan. 8, 1985, the Season 1 episode ‘Samantha’s Rising Up’ featured a 12-year-old Sam going by way of the aforementioned change, throughout which her dad Tony (Tony Danza) agrees to let his employer Angela (Judith Mild) take her bra buying.
Katherine Helmond, Alyssa Milano, Tony Danza, Judith Mild and Danny Pintauro in Who’s the Boss? (1984-’92). (Columbia Photos Tv/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
“Nobody else understands that have however us. It was a extremely particular solid,” mentioned Milano of the ensemble, which additionally included Danny Pintauro and the late Katherine Helmond.
“If you’re on a present for eight years, in these childhood from 11 to 19 … what you noticed on TV was our household unit,” she added. “We have been a household, and I really like them very a lot and they’re going to at all times maintain a extremely massive place in forming who I’m as a girl.”
Who’s the Boss? ran for eight seasons on ABC from 1984 to 1992. In 2022, a sequel sequence in growth landed at Amazon Freevee, reuniting Milano and Danza.
