Nathan Lane
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And then I did a show with the creators of Frasier, and I thought that would be a good idea. They had won the Emmy five years in a row.
And then I did a show with the creators of Frasier, and I thought that would be a good idea. They had won the Emmy five years in a row.
and they pitched me an idea I didn't like, and then I pitched them an idea they didn't like, and then they came up with this idea that we wound up doing, in which I was going to play a famous opera singer who lost his voice in a freak accident and had to leave the opera world, and he went to live with his mother and sister at their winery in the Napa Valley. LAUGHTER
and they pitched me an idea I didn't like, and then I pitched them an idea they didn't like, and then they came up with this idea that we wound up doing, in which I was going to play a famous opera singer who lost his voice in a freak accident and had to leave the opera world, and he went to live with his mother and sister at their winery in the Napa Valley. LAUGHTER
and they pitched me an idea I didn't like, and then I pitched them an idea they didn't like, and then they came up with this idea that we wound up doing, in which I was going to play a famous opera singer who lost his voice in a freak accident and had to leave the opera world, and he went to live with his mother and sister at their winery in the Napa Valley. LAUGHTER
By the time the premise was, you were finished explaining it, people had left the room. So that didn't go so well.
By the time the premise was, you were finished explaining it, people had left the room. So that didn't go so well.
By the time the premise was, you were finished explaining it, people had left the room. So that didn't go so well.
Yes, and I thought, well, that's kind of redundant, but... LAUGHTER But it was actually Ryan Murphy. I was working for Ryan Murphy doing this miniseries about the Menendez brothers, and he had read this script, and he had never done a situation comedy before, a multi-camera situation comedy. But he thought the script was great, and they had written it, I was told, with me in mind.
Yes, and I thought, well, that's kind of redundant, but... LAUGHTER But it was actually Ryan Murphy. I was working for Ryan Murphy doing this miniseries about the Menendez brothers, and he had read this script, and he had never done a situation comedy before, a multi-camera situation comedy. But he thought the script was great, and they had written it, I was told, with me in mind.
Yes, and I thought, well, that's kind of redundant, but... LAUGHTER But it was actually Ryan Murphy. I was working for Ryan Murphy doing this miniseries about the Menendez brothers, and he had read this script, and he had never done a situation comedy before, a multi-camera situation comedy. But he thought the script was great, and they had written it, I was told, with me in mind.
And so I read it, and I thought it was hilarious, and that's how it all came to be.
And so I read it, and I thought it was hilarious, and that's how it all came to be.
And so I read it, and I thought it was hilarious, and that's how it all came to be.
For those who remember George C. Scott.
For those who remember George C. Scott.
For those who remember George C. Scott.