Why David Hyde Pierce refused to return to ‘Frasier’ reboot
nypost.comthis year’s Paramount+ revival as his iconic character.A slew of new stars joined Kelsey Grammer in the 10-episode reboot, which premiered on Oct.
12.Pierce got candid about why he decided not to make a comeback on the series, 20 years after its conclusion. “I never really wanted to go back,” he told the Los Angeles Times in a new profile.He added: “It’s not like I said, ‘Oh, I don’t ever want to do that again.’ I loved every moment.
It was that I wanted to do other things.”“And when we got into real talks about the reboot, I had just started on the ‘Julia’ TV show and was working on a musical and going to do another musical, not this one,” the Tony Award winner went on.The “Wet Hot American Summer” alum currently stars in Max’s drama “Julia” as Paul Child.
The series follows world-renowned chef Julia Child as she embarks on her cooking career in the 1960s.Pierce continued: “And I just thought, ‘I don’t want to be committed to a show and not be able to do stuff like this.’ And I also thought, ‘They don’t actually need me.’”“Frasier has moved on to a new world.
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