I’ve said some of the most extraordinary language I’ve ever said in my life in this role. It’s been a remarkable experience for me. There’s room to tell stories in a unique, individual way, and that’s what we’ve done here. I love telling stories, the blessing of being allowed to tell them on television. I thought that was the most ridiculous thing I’d heard in my life. “It took me back to my roots, back to things I believed in: telling good stories… Someone asked me earlier why won’t I leave television. “Doing a drama started to make sense,” he continued.
So I decided it was time to make changes that involved my career as well as my personal life. And I just decided I didn’t want that story to be my last story. I cast my imaginative net, basically, over the next 20 or 30 or 40 years, whatever it may be. But I will say this: after my heart attack, which was three years ago, I spent the next several months just looking at my own life. Maybe not the details, because i don’t talk about them. I mean, you’re all familiar with what’s gone on in my personal life. For the last couple of years, I decided I needed to make a life change, honestly. “I just took a break for a while,” he told reporters.
He did some comedy production work, starred in FOX’s short-lived “Back to You,” starred in ABC’s even shorter-lived “Hank” – which, he admitted, “nobody liked that, and it wasn’t very funny, so we thought we’d do something different.”Īnd, of course, there were the many appearances in the tabloids due to his problems with addiction, marriages, divorces, and other tabloid fodder. Not that doing a drama was ever his intention in those immediate post-“Frasier” days. This particular role probably couldn’t have taken place right after ‘Frasier’ – probably would have been too big a jolt.”
“I started out as a classical theater actor playing tragedies. “I didn’t start out as a comic actor,” the “Cheers” and “Frasier” star explained at a press conference for his new Starz drama “Boss” (premiere date TBD), in which he plays the scheming mayor of Chicago. Like Sideshow Bob Terwilliger, Kelsey Grammer never set out to be a clown, but he became so famous as one that it became hard for him to be taken seriously.
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