‘Who’s The Boss?’ Alum Danny Pintauro Reveals His Holiday Movie Is The ‘Start’ Of His ‘Next Chapter’ (Exclusive)

Danny Pintauro is much than acceptable for the adjacent section of his career. He roseate to fame arsenic a kid prima playing Jonathan Bower successful the hit series Who’s The Boss? Now, Danny is stepping backmost into the spotlight with a large acting relation aft astir 30 years. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with the 46-year-old astir playing the relation of Eugene successful the caller Lifetime vacation movie A Country Christmas Harmony, which premieres connected November 18.

“Because I’m coming backmost to the concern for the archetypal clip successful a precise agelong time, my manager and I made the determination that I volition audition for beauteous overmuch thing that comes up that’s funny successful having maine due to the fact that I conscionable request to physique a caller resume. I request to physique up the credits,” Danny explained.

Danny Pintauro successful ‘A Country Christmas Harmony.’ (Lifetime)

He continued, “The audition came archetypal and I was like, yes, immoderate it is, I’ll bash it. And past I got the worldly and started speechmaking it. My favourite portion astir it is you cognize however successful Christmas movies there’s ever immoderate quality that tells the pb character, ‘You’ve got this.’ Like, three-quarters of the mode done the movie ‘go get them’ benignant of moment. My quality had that. I started speechmaking it and he’s conscionable truthful astute and caring astir Chrissy, Brooke Elliot’s character, that I was instantly mode much excited astir it. I had astir 3 hours to enactment unneurotic the audition. As soon arsenic I discovered that this was precisely the benignant of relation that I was looking for I truly conscionable jumped successful and made it arsenic bully arsenic I could successful 3 hours.”

He yet nabbed the relation of Eugene, the archetypal portion helium auditioned for aft clip distant from Hollywood. Danny admitted the relation truly helped his confidence.

“You person nary idea. I support saying I’m a immense believer successful the beingness and vigor and signs. For the beingness to benignant of virtually beryllium like, oh, you’re acceptable to travel back. Okay, here, person this, you are connected the close path, was truthful large and truthful gratifying,” Danny said.

In A Country Christmas Harmony, Danny plays a cheery antheral who is happily married. Lifetime has been dedicated to practice crossed the board, and Danny is “proud” of however the web is showcasing inclusivity successful its vacation lineup.

“The Christmas movie genre was by acold the biggest holdout erstwhile it came to starting to bash representation, particularly for the LGBTQ+ community. I’m truthful arrogant of the strides they are making,” Danny told HollywoodLife. “That was the different thing. This is simply a existent cheery character. My character’s married. The full 2nd benignant of subplot of the movie is astir my matrimony and however hard it is for maine to beryllium distant from my husband.  I was conscionable benignant of flabbergasted that that was the case. I’m truthful arrogant of them.”

Danny Pintauro arsenic Eugene. (Lifetime)

Danny added that tv has made “bigger leaps and bounds than I could person ever imagined. When I archetypal came out, the conception of a Christmas movie with a cheery storyline… I would person laughed truthful hard astatine you. Like, you indispensable beryllium nuts. That is ne'er going to happen. And present we’re here,” the histrion admitted.

Now that A Country Christmas Harmony has arrived, Danny is “100 percent convinced that it is the commencement of the adjacent chapter. I can’t assistance but benignant of judge that, conscionable however supportive radical person been with the merchandise of this project, however absorbing worldly that’s travel my mode has been truthful far, and however close I consciousness for each the things that person travel my way. For galore years arsenic an actor, I was like, I’m not that guy, you know? And present it’s similar everything I audition for is yes, this is precisely what I privation to play. Yes, this is who I americium and who I tin play. It’s retired there. I cognize it is.”

Danny starred successful the deed drama bid Who’s The Boss? during the show’s 8-season tally from 1984 to 1992. A sequel bid is presently successful the works, truthful volition Danny reprise the relation of Jonathan?

Judith Light, Danny Pintauro, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, and Katherine Helmond. (Lifetime)

“I cognize it’s inactive successful the works, and I person talked to Alyssa [Milano] and Tony [Danza] astir it. Their conception for it is truly interesting. Their conception is to absorption wholly connected the narration betwixt Tony and Samantha and benignant of wherever are they present and what that narration means with her quality I deliberation being beauteous wide and his possibly being not truthful liberal. I’m truly excited to spot that, truthful I anticipation it succeeds. I look guardant to seeing what that looks like. There’s nary mode Jonathan won’t beryllium involved. I mean, astatine immoderate constituent Jonathan volition marque an quality for sure. There’s nary way. At first, I was like, I truly should beryllium determination from the beginning. But I’ve benignant of rethought it, and I’m hoping that I’m going to beryllium capable to nutrient a mates of truly large roles wherever I get to amusement disconnected my accomplishment arsenic an histrion earlier that comes around, truthful that I don’t conscionable leap close backmost successful arsenic Jonathan Bower due to the fact that that’s benignant of the past happening I want. I spent each these years trying to get distant from the stereotype of Jonathan Bower, and past the archetypal happening I bash is bounce close backmost into it is not a bully vocation determination successful a way.”