Fran Drescheris looking back atDonald Trump‘s guest appearance on her showThe Nanny— and how he made a request that ended up altering the script.
Speaking with Seth Meyers on Feb. 3’s episode ofLate Night with Seth Meyers, Drescher, 62, revealed that there is “an interesting story” that accompanies Trump’s appearance on the CBS sitcom, which ran for six seasons from 1993 to 1999.
“I stood in this scene and I said to the two of them, ‘Oh, all you millionaires are alike,'” Drescher explained of thescenein which Trump, 73, appeared, in 1996.
“And Peter [Marc Jacobson] — now my gay ex-husband — got a note from his assistant, Donald Trump’s assistant, that said, ‘Mr. Trump is not a millionaire. He’s a billionaire, and we’d like you to change the script,'” Drescher explained.
But theIndebtedstar said she thought using the word “billionaire” “seemed too on the money.”
“Cause I know Fran would’ve, you know, described everyone who was rich as a millionaire,” she said of her character on the show, Fran Fine. “But to say ‘billionaire’ seems like a specific choice.”
“So we asked them if it would be okay if we wrote ‘zillionaire’ and he said that was fine,” she told Meyers with a laugh.
Fran Drescher, Donald Trump onThe Nanny.CBS/Courtesy Everett Collection
Drescher added, “And Peter somehow knew that he shouldn’t throw that away and he has it framed in his office.”
Last month, Drescher and Jacobson announced that an adaptation ofThe Nannywill be heading to Broadway for a musical adaptation with the help ofCrazy Ex-Girlfriend‘sRachel Bloom, who will write the music along with Adam Schlesinger.
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“Nobody is cast yet — we’re plotting — but we feel confident we will find a fabulous actress who is funny, charming and has a great voice,” the statement continued, with Drescher adding, “Of course I would do it myself. But we’d have to change the title toThe Granny.”
Drescher teased in April of last year that she and her ex-husband were working with Bloom on “something that I thinkThe Nannyfans are going to be very excited about. SomethingNannyrelated.”
The actress has previously said she’d be “totally down” to do arevivalof the sitcom.
source: people.com
