After twenty years away from Level Place, Wisconsin, Laura Prepon is again. And this time, she’s within the driver’s seat.
The That ’70s Show alum not too long ago opened up about returning for season three of the Netflix spin-off sequence That ’90s Show, not solely within the position of Donna Pinciotti, however as director of all eight episodes.
“The expertise was superb,” Prepon advised The Wrap. “I’ve been directing for some time — after I was on Orange [Is the New Black], I directed … a number of episodes on that, I directed on this present final yr as properly. It was very nice having the ability to direct a complete slew of episodes on the identical time, since you actually get to sit down deep within the saddle and go.
She continued, “And having the ability to return onto a set that I do know so properly. And never solely the set, however the showrunner I’ve recognized for 20 years, as a result of he was a author on ’70s and Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner — all these individuals I’ve recognized for a really very long time — and so they’ve trusted me to take the helm of those eight episodes for Half 3 was actually great, and I had a blast.
Prepon defined that though she loves performing, “directing is what I wish to do,” including: “I’m like a fish in water after I’m doing it, and performing makes me a greater director. There’s nothing I’m going to ask this solid to try this I’ve by no means performed myself, the understanding and the empathy is so excessive as a result of I’ve been doing this for thus lengthy. I perceive, particularly on this present with these units — speak about being there, I’ve bodily, emotionally been there. I do hope to do extra [but] it takes me away from my household longer. However my husband, we’re each within the enterprise, and we simply determine it out.”
Reyn Doi, Laura Prepon, Callie Haverda, Ashley Aufderheide, Max Donovan, Mace Coronel and Sam Morelos on That ’90s Present. (Patrick Wymore/Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
The OITNB alum shares two children with actor Ben Foster, whom she married in 2018.
She starred on Fox’s That ’70s Present as Donna for everything of the sitcom’s eight-season run from 1998 to 2006.
Prepon reprises the position within the reboot, which follows her and husband Eric Forman’s (Topher Grace) daughter Leia (Callie Haverda) as she befriends a brand new era of Level Place teenagers whereas spending the summer season in her grandparents’ basement.
Though Grace reprised his position in Season 1, together with fellow ’70s alums Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Wilmer Valderrama, Prepon was the one one to return for an look this season. In the meantime, Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp proceed to play Crimson and Kitty Forman, along with Don Stark again as Bob Pinciotti.
