“When I had that experience and I was trying to piece it together, my adult brain could remember pieces, but not everything,” she says. (In the film, Frye also reveals that her “first consensual sexual experience” was with Charlie Sheen.) In fact, she had buried the trauma away completely. It’s something she realized that she hadn’t processed until working on the documentary. She grapples with the guilt and the shame she had felt, and wondered if she was to blame. After she pushed him off, he asked her, “How does it feel not being a virgin anymore?” She wrote that he “thrust himself in me” even though she said she didn’t want to have sex. In Kid 90, Frye reads from a diary entry from when she was a teenager, her voice tremulous as she fights back tears reciting what her younger self had written about being raped during her first time having sex.
“I had to live through the pain over and over and just go through that process. “What it ended up being was me having to peel back the onion to my core, and, in that, releasing fear and all of those things,” she says. But then she embarked on the task of watching every piece of video and listening to every tape, and it became clear how personal the process had become for her. That I wasn’t ready to face it.”Īt first, Frye had planned to make a documentary “about everyone but me.” She envisioned it as an exploration of the last decade of privacy, when these young stars could record themselves goofing around and being authentic without the fear, or even the expectation, that the footage would become public. It was something that I think was really very subconscious, that I stored it away. “The discovery of so much pain-I think that it must have been a subconscious thing.
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“So much of what I remembered had been so joyful and full of love and life, and there is so much joy and love of life,” Frye says. Watching the footage of themselves now, Frye and her other friends can’t help but wonder if youthful ignorance and self-centeredness caused them to miss their friends’ cries for help. For all the unbothered bliss you see in Frye and her friends as they explore the boundaries of partying, there are the tragic stories of her friends including Jonathan Brandis and Justin Pierce, who both committed suicide. Kid 90 is as euphoric as it is harrowing. In addition to fond memories of first crushes, falling in love, and deep, rewarding relationships, specifically with House of Pain’s Danny Boy O’Connor, Frye grapples with a sexual assault she experienced while still a virgin, the details of which she had buried until she unearthed a recording of herself talking about it.
In a way, that my teenage self left this blueprint for me to come back to.”įor Frye, it’s a deeply personal look back at her relationship to celebrity, her body image, and sexuality. “I was this kid journalist keeping my diaries and filming everything and documenting everything,” she says, “and I really do feel that it was a chronological blueprint for me to find my way back home to the person that I once was. “Really, I started this documentary when I was a child,” Frye says, speaking over Zoom three days after Kid 90 premiered on Hulu and-in a bit of unplanned cosmic synergy-just weeks after the revival of Punky Brewster that she stars in debuted on Peacock.
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