Fran Drescher's next role: From 'The Nanny' to Hollywood queen amid actors strike
foxnews.comFran Drescher became the "it girl" in Hollywood from the beginning of her career. From dancing with John Travolta in her first film, to creating and starring in her own, award-winning television sitcom, and then pivoting into becoming one of the most powerful people in the industry – Drescher kept her eye on the prize: success.
The New York-native had big dreams as a kid, and wanted to be a writer, hairdresser, actor or politician. She told Vanity Fair in 2022, "I kind of ended up being them all in different ways." She graduated in 1975 from Hillcrest High School in Queens, and received her first film role dancing alongside John Travolta in the 1977 disco drama, "Saturday Night Fever." "Travolta was an amazing dancer, and I really did not know how to do the hustle," Drescher said in a BUILD series interview. "I didn't have to know how to dance when you dance with Travolta." She told Studio 10, "That was a wonderful opportunity for me.
I was still living at home with my parents, and I got that little part and it just kind of started snowballing." Years later, Drescher ran into Travolta on the Golden Globes red carpet and interrupted one of his interviews by asking him her iconic line from "Saturday Night Fever." "I said, ‘Are you as good in bed as you are on the dance floor?’ Well his wife's jaw dropped because she didn't know what the hell I was saying, but he knew," she said of a hilarious encounter with John's late wife Kelly Preston.
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