Are you Curious about what's going on Seinfeld ? Le't check it out and get the clear about them. Jason Alexander as SEINFELD star has revealed the real reason about his financee on the Tv show was killed off.
The character of Susan Ross, who was played by Heidi Swedberg, died after licking too many poor quality envelopes seals which George Costanza bought for their upcoming wedding.
But as Alexander told Howard Stern on radio, her on screen death had more to do with her real life acting skills.
“I couldn’t figure out how to play off of her,” said Alexander.
“Her instincts for doing a scene and mine were always misfiring.”
Alexander told Stern he was less than thrilled when he received a call from the show’s co-creator, Larry David, who told him his character would be marrying Susan.
“After every episode the four of us (Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Larry (David) would go and get a bite to eat.
“I kept saying, ‘I’m going out of my mind you guys, you’re killing me. I can’t understand how to play off this girl.’
“Finally they do an episode where Elaine and Jerry have a lot of material with her, and they do the week and then we get to the restaurant afterwards and they go, ‘You know what? It’s fu**ing impossible!’
“Julia actually said, ‘I know, don’t you just want to kill her.’ And Larry went, ‘Bang!’”
So there you have it, an off-the-cuff remark over dinner resulted in one of the most unique deaths in sitcom history.
UPDATE: Jason Alexander has issued a public apology to Heidi Swedberg, titled, “Oh dear God, leave Heidi alone”.
Here’s what it said:
“OK folks, I feel officially awful. Yesterday on @Sternshow, I retold a story I had told years ago about my personal difficulties and insecurities in playing George against the Susan that Heidi Swedberg created. The impetus for telling this story was that Howard said, “Julia Louis Dreyfuss told me you all wanted to kill her”. So I told the story to try and clarify that no one wanted to kill Heidi.
“And again I say, I and the cast really liked and like Heidi. She is a kind, lovely person who undoubtedly worked really hard to create Susan and that character was clearly what Larry and Jerry wanted her to be for George. I just felt I was on uncertain ground in how to play off that character and I was always concerned that it wasn’t working. And that’s what I would voice concern about. But because the scenes were playing the way they were, the relationship with George and Susan sustained a whole season. People clearly liked the interplay even though I believed I was “off”.
“Larry and Jerry were not sure how that relationship would end. They didn’t really want George married but all the alternatives seemed predictable. They were always looking for an inventive end to the engagement. So when the comment was made about ‘killing’, no one was talking about the actress - they were talking about the character. And that made a creative light bulb go off apparently.
“But in telling this story, it sounds like we are putting a heavy burden on Heidi. I, personally, am not. Heidi would always ask if there was anything in the scenes she could do or if I had any thoughts. She was generous and gracious and I am so mad at myself for retelling this story in any way that would diminish her. If I had had more maturity or more security in my own work, I surely would have taken her query and possibly tried to adjust the scenes with her. She surely offered. But, I didn’t have that maturity or security. And, Larry and Jerry would probably have killed me as it was all playing exactly as they wanted. Clearly Susan and George were coming off just the way they wanted.
“So, to all the press that is now running wild with this 15 year old story, please don’t pervert it. No one told Heidi to do anything different - and she surely would have, if asked. And no one that I am aware of, including myself, didn’t like her. And now with distance, I can look at those episodes and see that there was a fun relationship there between George and Susan. It works perfectly. I simply couldn’t see it or find it at the time.
“To Heidi, I personally apologise. You are a sweetheart. I actually launched into this on Stern to defend you. But this is why I’m not a lawyer. Now everybody, calm down and just enjoy the re-runs and think, ‘why did he think this wasn’t working? This is great.’”
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