Fran Drescher is remembered fondly for portraying Fran Fine on the CBS sitcom The Nanny, and although she excelled in that format, don’t expect her to return to it anytime soon.
In a new interview, Drescher was adamant about making a comeback to sitcoms after starring in one for six seasons.
“I don’t see myself doing another sitcom,” she said in on Ted Danson’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast.
Drescher said that the “idea of going into the soundstage every day” is something that she wouldn’t want to do again.
“The last one that I did wasn’t my show. I played the mom in it, and I really didn’t… I loved the people, but I didn’t enjoy the experience that much because we were shooting it over the winter months,” she added.
The Marty Supreme actor didn’t name the show she starred in, but the last sitcom in which she was a series regular was NBC’s Indebted. In the Dan Levy comedy, Drescher played Debbie Klein, mother of Adam Pally’s character. The show aired in 2020 and was canceled after only one season.
“It was pretty dark when I entered the stage, and it was dark when I left it,” she said, adding, “I just lost the whole day.”
Drescher questioned if working on the show was worthing, asking herself, “Is this how I would have wanted to spend the day if it turned out to be the last day of my life? And it wasn’t.”
There’s still hope that Drescher could return to television, saying, “Maybe when I’m writing and executive-producing, directing, all of those hats that I wore in my own shows, maybe it would be more stimulating and, you know, gratifying. But in this situation, I think just playing the mom in it, it just wasn’t enough for me. And I felt like I could’ve been doing other things during my day.”
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