{"id":115199,"date":"2024-07-31T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/lisa-kudrow-was-devastated-when-she-was-fired-from-frasier\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:01:44","slug":"lisa-kudrow-was-devastated-when-she-was-fired-from-frasier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/lisa-kudrow-was-devastated-when-she-was-fired-from-frasier\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Kudrow was ‘devastated’ when she was fired from Frasier"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lisa Kudrow<\/a> has confessed being fired from ‘Frasier’ was “devastating”.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Kudrow was upset after being axed from Frasier<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old actress was hired to play producer Roz Doyle in the sitcom opposite Kelsey Grammer<\/a> in the title role, but she was given the boot before the pilot episode was filmed and replaced by Peri Gilpin and Lisa has now admitted losing such an important job was a huge setback.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on the ‘Smartless’ podcast, Lisa called her exit “devastating”, adding: “I didn\u2019t film it [the pilot]. I got fired from ‘Frasier’.”<\/p>\n

She explained director James Burrows stopped the action during a run-through for the pilot episode, saying: “This isn\u2019t working”.<\/p>\n

Lisa went on: “I was trying to like [ask], \u2018What can I do?\u2019 But I think they did make a casting mistake because I went to the network with Perri Gilpin. I think they were just correcting a mistake. Cause Perri should have always been Roz.”<\/p>\n

\nHowever, the firing led Lisa down a new path with helped her land her life-changing role on ‘Friends’ after taking a bit-part on another show called ‘Mad About You’.<\/p>\n

\nShe explained: “I did a guest star on ‘Mad About You’, they had me back, I\u2019d already done a guest star the first season. So now I\u2019m there for a different character [just called ‘waitress’] and my agent said, \u2018You\u2019re not doing this’ … [I was] not in a position to say no. It\u2019s to me the best show and I\u2019m doing it.”<\/p>\n

\nAfterwards, she was invited back for five more episodes declaring: “There\u2019s my rent for the year” and luck was on her side because the show’s writer\/ producer Jeffrey Klarik later suggested Lisa for the role of Phoebe Buffay when his partner David Crane was putting together the cast of ‘Friends’.<\/p>\n

\nLisa ended up encountering her former ‘Frasier’ director James Burrows again when she had to audition of him for her ‘Friends’ role and she came away from the try-up worrying it was “hopeless” but she went on to be cast anyway and the part completely changed her life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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