'The Fabelmans' star Judd Hirsch says there will never be a 'Taxi' reunion.
Nearly 50 years ago, an unknown actor went into Universal Studio’s New York casting office to read for a television movie. Afterward, legendary agent and casting director Eleanor Kilgallen told the young man, “Let me introduce you to some people,” and so“There was a little guy behind a desk in a cubicle working on a movie and on his desk was a shark,” Hirsch recalls.
Hirsch didn’t have an exact parallel in his background but he did have the Jewish immigrant relatives, including an uncle who helped look out for them when he and his single mom were living in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. “He was daring — the kind of guy with hair all over his body who swam in the ocean in the winter,” Hirsch recalls. “He was the guy who put me on a bike and gave me a shove and said, ‘Go.’ He also almost hit me once because I licked the ketchup bottle.
His outsized performance as Uncle Boris — especially the pivotal speech he gives Sammy about art — has generated more Oscar buzz for the 87-year-old. “It’s the heart of the movie and he was very impactful,” saysThe director gave Hirsch the choice of whether Boris had a foreign accent and his only bit of direction was saying, “‘He was the guy who made me become a director,’” Hirsch recalls, “which is like saying, ‘Play God. Now let’s see what you can do.
Hirsch adds that he did apologize to LaBelle beforehand for what was about to happen. LaBelle admits it was a bit overwhelming. “He was just exploding at me,” he says. “He brought it all and I just tried to keep up.”
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