Punky Brewster reboot as Lauren, Cherie’s girlfriend who we meet about halfway through the season. The new take on the classic series debuts Wednesday.“She’s very smart,” Nicole says about her character. “She’s very funny, because I don’t think that Punky or Cherie would ever invite anybody into their lives that didn’t have a great sense of humor.”“The first time you meet her is at a club when they’re going out to see this band or something,” she continues, “but the very second time that you get to see her, it’s at Punky’s house with all of Punky’s kids and Punky’s ex-husband.
And so that was one of my favorite things about the show: immersing this queer character into this other family dynamic and not having to have an explanation for it..