‘Frasier’: Roz makes return in this week’s season finale

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Frasier fans were shocked this week after original long-term cast member Roz, played by Peri Gilpin, made a surprise return to the rebooted show.Gilpin played Roz on the original incarnation of the show for eleven seasons and was reunited with Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer, on screen this week for the first time in 20 years for the season’s finale.Roz surprises Frasier at Christmas, his first without dad Martin (played by John Mahoney, who died in 2018).Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Gilpin said: “I just loved getting to do it.

It was a fantasy come true to play that part again and to go back into that world. And there’s bittersweet things because it makes me so sad when I think about John.

I miss him. He was a great friend, but I feel like they dealt with that.”She continued: “They go back to John every chance they can and they refer back.

They refer back to Cheers. They refer back to our first Frasier and I feel like we’re kind of a part of it. It felt very comfortable there and wonderful and it was really funny.