Yes, he apologizes for screaming the “N-word” in a comedy club two decades ago. But Michael Richards has so much more to say in his new book.
for his indelible portrayal of Cosmo Kramer and delighting tens of millions of fans on a weekly basis. But in the 18 years since he was caught on camera shouting the “N-word” at a comedy club heckler, he has essentially disappeared from the public eye.
Michael Richards as “Kramer” prepares to burst through the door during the final days of shooting Seinfeld, April 3, 1998 in Los Angeles, California.The chapter on Richards’ career-ending meltdown comes near the very end of the book, but readers could be forgiven for skipping ahead to see how he decides to talk about it at length for the first time.
Michael Richards holds a script of the final episode in the air amongst a sea of cast and crew members from the hit television show "Seinfeld," April 3, 1998 in Studio City, California.After David told him that “Kessler” had “agoraphobia,” the character started to click for Richards, who took some inspiration from his mentally unstable grandmother. “I’m an introvert and I can feel stuck in myself,” he writes. “I had a grandmother who was ‘severely introverted’ and stuck in herself.
Jason Alexander, Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus stand behind bars in a scene during the last days of filming the final episode in Studio City, California, April 3, 1998.Richards was the only cast member who was in on the gag. That meant Richards was able to prepare the physical punchline he put on the scene, walking over and dropping the stack of cue cards in Kaufman’s lap after he refused to read the lines as written.
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