Laura Prepon Teases Nostalgic ‘That 90s Show’ Appearance — and Why She Cried on Set the 1st Day
16.06.2022 - 21:35
/ usmagazine.com
Hello, Point Place! Nearly 16 years after Laura Prepon wrapped That 70s Show, she has been eagerly anticipating her return as Donna Pinciotti on the forthcoming That 90s Show.
“It’s so fun. It’s all the same sets,” the PrepOn Kitchen founder, 42, exclusively teased to Us Weekly on Wednesday, June 15, of the new series while discussing her partnership with Vitalite. “When I first went there, I cried. I’m just like, ‘The nostalgia is so strong and it was such an incredible time in my life.’ I can’t wait for people to see it. I think they’re really, really gonna get a kick out of it.”
Prepon rose to fame playing Donna — opposite Topher Grace’s Eric Forman — on the FOX series upon its 1999 premiere. Helmed by Mark Brazill, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner, That ’70s Show followed a group of teenagers coming of age in the Wisconsin suburbs during the 1970s. Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Wilmer Valderrama, Danny Masterson, Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith also starred.
Netflix announced in October 2021 that they had picked up a revival series starring Rupp, 71, and Smith, 78, who’d reprise their roles as Eric’s parents: Kitty and Red Forman. The new series will see the Formans babysitting Eric and Donna’s daughter, Leia (Callie Haverda), while she is visiting for the summer. It was confirmed earlier this year that Prepon and her TV love interest, 43, would both return for the new series. The Bad Moms star, 38, Kutcher, 44, and Valderrama, 42, are also set to recur though further details have yet to be revealed.
The Orange Is The New Black alum, for her part, revealed to Us that “oddly” it has not been “weird” to step back into Donna’s shoes.
“It just was like the nostalgia of it,” Prepon — who married actor Ben Foster in 2018 —