Alyssa Milano Reflects on Who’s the Boss? as the Show Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary | Entertainment

Four a long time after Who’s the Boss? premiered, Alyssa Milano is wanting again at her “formative years” on the beloved sitcom.

Milano was simply 11 years outdated when she was solid reverse Tony Danza, Judith Light, Danny Pintauro and the late Katherine Helmond in Who’s the Boss?, which premiered on Sept. 20, 1984. At a latest press occasion forward of her Sept. 16 Broadway debut starring in Chicago, PEOPLE confirmed Milano a number of images from her early days on the present to see what the 51-year-old actress remembered.

“So, this is the first season where I had just come from theater. So, you can tell I’m not yet a sitcom kid,” Milano, who obtained her begin at 7 in the nationwide touring manufacturing of Annie, recalled of the picture above.

“I’m very demure,” she added of the picture — referencing TikTok star Jools Lebron’s viral catchphrase.

Milano mentioned she was informed early on to “sitcom kid it up a little bit,” recommendation she mentioned influenced the subsequent picture (under).

Milano mentioned she wasn’t given a lot “outward say” in shaping her character’s fashion. “But a lot of Sam was based on who I was as a kid,” she defined, “which was someone who loved sports, a tomboy, someone who loved her family, tough, scrappy, and everything that kind of went on in my adolescence.”

“Like, I remember when I started developing breasts, I walked in the next week and there was a script called ‘Sam’s First Bra,’ ” she continued. “So it was like, everything that happened in my life, they wrote it in the show.”

Milano has remained shut with Danza, Light and Pintauro over the final 40 years. Her Who’s the Boss? costars, she mentioned, turned like household over the present’s eight-season run on ABC.

“No one else understands that experience but us,” she informed PEOPLE. “It was a really special cast.”

“When you’re on a show for eight years, in those formative years from 11 to 19 … what you saw on TV was our family unit,” she defined. “We were a family, and I love them very much and they will always hold a really big place in forming who I am as a woman.”

Milano added that she’d simply spoken to Danza — who final appeared on Broadway in the unique solid of the 2014 musical adaptation of Honeymoon in Vegas and wraps his Sinatra & Stories performances at New York City's Café Carlyle on Sep. 21 — simply days earlier than her personal debut in Chicago. (Milano even caught his Sept. 18 efficiency!)

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“Tony said to me, ‘I wanna be on Broadway again so bad,’ ” she recounted. “I was like, ‘You’d be a great Billy Flynn!’ ”

Here’s hoping for a reunion that might absolutely be full of the outdated razzle dazzle!

Who's the Boss is now streaming on Hulu.