Kelsey Grammer couldn’t convince David Hyde Pierce to do Frasier reboot: “I did my best”
nme.comKelsey Grammer has said that he “did his best” to convince David Hyde Pierce to return in his role of Niles Crane for the recent Frasier reboot.
In a new interview with Variety, Grammer revealed that he made every effort to talk his former co-star into coming back, but that it fell on deaf ears. “I really wanted David Hyde Pierce to join us,” he said. “And I did my best to have him come along for the ride.
And at one point, he finally just said, ‘I don’t really want to play the character anymore’. And that was fine.” “I mean, we have Niles’ son on the show.
It would be nice to have that happen. We won’t force it; we’ll see what happens. We can certainly write to it. There’s arguably a lot of people in the world that have seen Frasier, and would really sort of celebrate seeing him again.” In October, the creators of the show revealed that their original idea for the return also involved David Hyde Pierce returning.
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