“This man can’t act,” David Alan Grier said of Jerry Seinfeld.
was not an obvious hit to Tony Award winner David Alan Grier, who admitted that he “fumbled the bag” when he didn’t land the role.on Monday, where he reflected on his audition for the classic sitcom in the late 1980s.
Grier said he read lines with the show’s star, Jerry Seinfeld, at the time, and thought, “This man can’t act, it’s not funny, this will never be a hit.” Grier auditioned for the role that ultimately went to Jason Alexander—George Costanza—and was never offered the part. Grier thought"Seinfeld" wasn't even going to be picked up. “I was like, ‘This show is going to suck. This will never go," he recalled thinking.Grier, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2020 for his role as Sergeant Vernon C. Waters in, went on to have several other successful roles during the time period, despite not landing the hit show. He joined the cast ofin 2019, once again recalling reading lines with Seinfeld, “I was like, ‘This show is going to suck. This will never go.’” When the show became a success, Greier said then that he wished he’d tried hard at the audition. “I was like, ‘S---, I should’ve been better and why the f--- did I blow off that audition? It was like, ‘So what?’ Right over my head,” he also said at the time. Other actors considered to play George Costanza included Chris Rock, Danny DeVito, and Rosie O’Donnell, Alexander said on his podcast, “From the moment I saw the script I thought it would be the most brilliant thing I’d ever be part of, and that it would not run for even a day.” He added, “I don’t think anyone is more surprised by the success of than we are, because we thought, ‘Oh, we’ll amuse ourselves, and that’ll be it.”
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