Soleil Moon Frye with Jonathan Brandis in 1990. On a subconscious level, I wasn't ready to deal with the pain.” And I think that is the same thing that goes on today, which is like: How often do we really look at each other and say, ‘How are you?’ and really mean it? … That's one reason I locked away the tapes for so long. And I think one of the things that was so hard to process was the fact that the teen me didn't always see what was going on, in the pain of the people around me. And so, sometimes even with all that love around us, there's just that pain. And I look at someone like my dear friend Jonathan Brandis, who I love so much, and I was talking to his parents the other night, and they loved him so much and they love him so much. But now that her ambitious film is completed, she muses, her eyes misting over: “I think David Arquette says it so beautifully, that the world can feel very painful. She cites her “incredible family” for giving her the “amazing grounding” and “sense of self” that kept her from becoming yet another Hollywood tragedy. Her fellow ‘90s survivors, from David Arquette and Brian Austin Green to Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell and Frye’s ex-boyfriend, House of Pain rapper Danny Boy O'Connor, also weigh in.įrye has spent “years, frame by frame” in the edit bay working on Kid 90 - no doubt experiencing multiple “there but for the grace of God go I” epiphanies, and twinges of survivor’s guilt, as she revisits those lost recordings of her fallen friends. Long-lost VHS and answering-machine recordings of peers that the actress has since lost to suicide or addiction, like troubled teen heartthrob Jonathan Brandis and Kids movie star Justin Pierce, make for especially intense viewing, as Frye, now age 44, examines her wild ‘90s life through a 2021 mental-health lens. Now that raw, previously unseen footage comprises Kid 90, Frye’s fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking documentary about growing up in Hollywood, which premieres this week on Hulu.
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