Kelsey Grammer
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586 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Dec
Kelsey Grammer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But I probably just would have thought, I'm not there yet. I don't know. Maybe by virtue of the same thing that's fed that myth is it takes a lot of time. It takes a long time to finally say, yeah, okay, I did something.
No, no, it still doesn't. What's really fun, I'm going to reprise the role of Beast in the next job I do. We're going to London in June to shoot the next Avengers film.
Amazing. I wanted to play that part again for a long time. It was a personal sort of tragedy to me. 20 years ago, I played it in X-Men, The Last Stand, I think it was called. And we went to Cannes Film Festival. I chartered a boat and everything. I'm going to celebrate this moment. And it was really cool. And then they said to me, we've got this whole new direction we're going in the franchise.
And I'm thinking... This is great. And they said, we're going back in time. You're not in it. Ah. That is so messed up.
So when recently they released The Marvels, the film The Marvels, I guess it did okay. I mean, I don't know if the response was good. But the response to Beast when he showed up, they called and said... come on down, let's shoot something. Do you mind doing one of those Easter egg things that they do in the credits?
Yeah. So there I am. And the response was really good. They called me in a little while later and said, we want you to do the role again. Nice. So maybe that actually made me feel like I finally made it.
It's right up my alley.
I think there is kind of a luck function that may be somewhat providential at the same time. This is Auden again. Going back, he always believed in luck, but his definition of luck meant that you were aligned with a spiritual energy that was for you, meaning God. He was a Christian, but most people don't really know that about him.
He was one of that little group in Oxford who decided they were going to prove that Jesus didn't exist, and then they all became Christians.
Wow. Yeah. It's fascinating. C.S. Lewis being one of them and Tolkien and Auden. And it's fascinating. I read something about C.S. Lewis just recently. He says, you don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. That is something.
For faith, yeah. Man. really huge, but this idea of divine providential luck, where you peg away at something, and as he says, peg away at it honestly every day, perhaps by the time death pounces his stumping question, I shall just be beginning to understand the difference between daylight and moonlight.
The thing that Frasier did, this happened. The first time I read the sides, I went by the Gulf and Western building, which is now the Trump Tower or one of them or whatever. And it has a little globe out in front on Columbus Circle.
That's where Paramount used to have its offices. They were owned by the Gulf and Western Company at the time. So he went, it's called the Gulf and Western Building. So I went upstairs and they handed me these sides, bits of a scene. And I read them and I went and visited my buddy Stanley. And Stan said, what do you think of this thing?
I said, the key to this character is that he loves her completely with his whole heart. And that was the key to Frasier. His love for Diane, such a first for him. And an intellectual guy who was completely in the thrall of love, surrender to it, complete surrender to it, where his own identity was lost as a result.
And that is what has defined him, that ability to love deeply, wholly, in an instant, and be mistaken, and make a mistake, and watching him unravel. Because watching Fraser unravel is what's been fun. Watching him not be in a relationship was what makes him fun.
having them not work out but he soldiers on with this optimism which as i described this once to my friend brad who's in the book he finally said well kelse that's you i guess this character is me in a lot of ways sure all the best characters are just a couple degrees to the left or the right of the actual actor like robert downey jr and iron man everyone's like oh he's such a good actor and if you know him in real life he's just maybe not a
I'm not sure. I always try to encourage them. I never say that you're on a bad path because it's the best thing in the world. It's just not necessarily going to lead to riches or anything else like that. But it's a beautiful way to spend one's life and one's career as an avocation and vocation at the same time. But I always tell them, if you want to be an actor, act. Go act somewhere.
I've always told them, you're not going to get an agent until you don't need one. That's just the truth. That's just the way it is.
Once you're doing good, they're fine. Why would I give you 10% at this point? But that's really important. It means you've got to get in the game. You've got to go to New York or go where you're going to go. Any town has a way to find somewhere to act. Volunteer to play. Be a fireman and go do a play at night. Whatever you have to do, get through it. I did demolition works, construction work.
I mean, I did dozens of things.
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