According to Michael Richards, star Jason Alexander almost quit playing early George Costanza because he was unhappy with his lack of screen time. Richards, who appeared on the show as Cosmo Kramer, reveals in his new memoir that Alexander nearly exited the show after episode, which didn’t feature either of their characters. “Jason threatens to quit after learning that he’s also not in the episode.
He’s furious,” Richards writes in , according to an excerpt obtained by . “Jason came onto the show with the most confidence of anyone,” Richards writes. “He had won a Tony Award on the New York stage, not an insignificant achievement, and until the table read for , he has assumed that is a buddy show, starring him and Jerry.
” In the episode, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) pay a visit to Seinfeld’s parents in Florida. Richards called the snub “one of those ego-jarring wakeup calls.” According to the 2016 book , Alexander reportedly threatened Larry David, the lead writer on the series, saying: “‘If you do that again, do it permanently .
.. if you don’t need me here every week, I’d just as soon go back home and do what I was doing.
'” When David said it was hard finding room for four characters every week, Alexander shot back: “’Don’t tell me your problems. If you don’t need me here, I don’t want to be here.’” Alexander confirmed he almost walked away from the hit sitcom in a chat with in 2017.
“Thank God he di.
