Jason Alexander: How Do You Handle Peaking With Seinfeld?
Show notes
Larry David told Jason Alexander he was playing George Costanza wrong. Then, when Seinfeld made him an international celebrity, it took him the better part of 30 years — and a lot of therapy — to figure out what to do with that.
Jason sits down with KIND founder Daniel Lubetzky, his friend of 25 years, to talk about the Seinfeld years and everything around them: the theater professor who told him he’d never play Hamlet (“try Falstaff instead”), how he built George out of Woody Allen, Jackie Gleason, and Larry David himself, and the work that first brought them together.
He gets into what doesn’t make the highlight reel: being bullied as a kid, why magic and theater made him feel powerful, winning a Tony Award by 30, expecting Seinfeld to end his career, and why the five worst words in show business are his own name. Plus the night on Broadway when Liza Minnelli missed a performance of The Rink and Chita Rivera taught him what leadership looks like.
They also revisit their trips to Israel and Ramallah with OneVoice, a grassroots peace movement — including the man who mailed pallets of Kabbalah books to the Ayatollah. Also: the Seinfeld finale, the Magic Castle, LA delis, and why Jason hates playing himself on TV.
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