How the “Who's the Boss?” actress harnessed her popularity to become a leading voice of the Me Too era.
In the midst of the Harvey Weinstein maelstrom, Alyssa Milano fired off a nighttime tweet. She thought, “Let’s just try this.”This was October 2017. You probably saw it. Everybody saw it.She recalls thinking, “At least it puts the focus on the victims in a way that they didn’t have to tell the story of their accusers.”
In April, Alyssa Milano delivers a letter to the office of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp asking him to veto a bill that would ban most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can happen as early as six weeks into pregnancy. In the reception area, she speaks with Georgia state Rep. Dominic LaRiccia . Of all people, it is a star of anodyne television who became one of MeToo’s leading voices, pushing it to the forefront more than a decade after Tarana Burke founded the movement.
Perhaps that’s the point: The acting never detracts from the activism, which has assumed primacy in her work. In more than three decades of working on television, 77 credits, Milano has not once been nominated for an Emmy. She currently stars in Netflix’s critically reviled “Insatiable” . Yet here she was in New York to accept another major philanthropic honor, possibly her 35th since that tweet, she has lost count.
For the 2020 election, Milano plans to raise $1 million, and another $1 million through matching funds, for grass-roots voter turnout efforts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. “Boots on the ground” is Milano’s motto, pointing to her black Doc Martens . She has been a UNICEF ambassador since 2003. Being present and empathetic are key to her activism. She’s become the sitcom confessor, the repository of MeToo stories from strangers, whom she welcomes with hugs and her cell number, asking them to text and stay in touch. And she frequently disarms critics by being someone they don’t expect her to be.
In the 1980’s, Milano played Samantha Micelli, the daughter of Tony Danza‘s character, in “Who’s the Boss?” Milano played Phoebe Halliwell on “Charmed” from 1998 to 2006, starring with Holly Marie Combs, front, and Shannen Doherty, right. LEFT: In the 1980’s, Milano played Samantha Micelli, the daughter of Tony Danza‘s character, in “Who’s the Boss?” RIGHT: Milano played Phoebe Halliwell on “Charmed” from 1998 to 2006, starring with Holly Marie Combs, front, and Shannen Doherty, right.
Nothing she ever did on “Who’s the Boss?” created so much attention. “Everything after meeting Ryan made more sense and was put in the right place,” Milano says. “It had greater purpose.” White died in 1990 at age 18. The panic attacks only occurred on set, sometimes lasting for days. “My stomach in knots. It’s brutal. The walls are closing in, and I can’t catch my breath,” she says. “It’s sort of primal, and volcanic.”
Milano speaks to the press in April after delivering a letter to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office detailing her opposition to the state’s abortion bill. Milano is in the Netflix series “Insatiable,” which films in Georgia. “There’s a lot of good trouble to get into in Georgia,” she said. In a brilliantly colored, full-length gown, in a packed Midtown hall, Milano accepts the Voice of Empowerment Award from Safe Horizon, which assists victims of violence.
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