{"id":136426,"date":"2024-12-04T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T11:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/04\/john-lithgow-wonders-what-might-have-been-after-turning-down-frasier-crane-on-cheers\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T11:02:26","slug":"john-lithgow-wonders-what-might-have-been-after-turning-down-frasier-crane-on-cheers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/04\/john-lithgow-wonders-what-might-have-been-after-turning-down-frasier-crane-on-cheers\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lithgow wonders ‘what might have been’ after turning down Frasier Crane on Cheers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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John Lithgow<\/a> “sometimes” wonders how turning down ‘Cheers’ changed his career path.<\/p>\n

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John Lithgow ‘sometimes’ ponders his decision to turn down Cheers<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old actor famously turned down the role of Frasier Crane in the iconic 1980s sitcom, with Kelsey Grammer<\/a> being cast in the third season and eventually launching the character’s own spin-off, which in turn has made a comeback with its own revival in recent years.<\/p>\n

Asked if he thinks “about what might have been”, John told the UK’s Radio Times magazine: “Sometimes.<\/p>\n

“When it came up, it was my early years in Hollywood, and I’d had two Oscar nominations in two years.<\/p>\n

“There was a chance to play a supporting role on ‘Cheers’ and my agent and I agreed, ‘Let’s not think about episodic TV’.<\/p>\n

\n“I can’t help but wonder about the road not travelled. But I have so few regrets. For one thing, I did do ‘3rd Rock From The Sun’ for six years, which was a glorious experience.”<\/p>\n

\nThe ‘Conclave’ star also revealed how he has turned down offers to play Donald Trump on screen, insisting it’s not the right time.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “I’ve been asked to do it a few times. I wasn’t interested. I feel the only way to play him is by being an outrageous caricature of him.<\/p>\n

\n“I also think we need a little distance. Give me a few years!”<\/p>\n

\nDuring Trump’s first term as President of the United States, John would lampoon him in satirical poems, and has now described him as a “ghastly threat to America”.<\/p>\n

\nAnd while he insisted that the businessman turned politician’s first presidency “hurt our country”, he urged people to “satirise him relentlessly”.<\/p>\n

\nHe explained: “No, I think it’s important to satirise him relentlessly. It really gets up his nose.<\/p>\n

\n“But it’s difficult because it’s hard to change people’s minds in politics these days, and it’s hard to run against demagoguery and deceit, and a lack of conscience or remorse.”<\/p>\n

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