Lisa Kudrow explains why she was fired from ‘Frasier’
nme.comFriends star Lisa Kudrow has explained why she was fired from Frasier after being cast as a main character on the show.In 1993, a year before Kudrow was cast in Friends as Phoebe Buffay, Kudrow successfully won the role of playing Roz Doyle in Frasier – the Cheers spin-off starring Kelsey Grammer as therapist Frasier Crane.
The role was later played by Peri Gilpin.However, before filming the pilot, Kudrow revealed to the SmartLess podcast that she was actually let go from the role.
She explained: “I didn’t film it. I got fired from Frasier.”The actor described the moment as “devastating” and went on to describe how director James Burrows told her during the episode’s run-through that things weren’t working.Kudrow said: “I was trying to like [ask], ‘What can I do?’”, as she didn’t want to walk away from the part.She went on to say that the show “did make a casting mistake because I went to the network with Peri Gilpin”, she continued, adding: “I think they were just correcting a mistake.
Cause Peri should have always been Roz.”After this, Kudrow won a role in Mad About You and after impressing producers, was asked to audition for Friends.
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