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Do not leave the representation of George Wendt in the soft manners of the loyal “cheers” norm ordinary peterson to deceive you; The late actor had fairly wild moments with the casting.
Wendt, who died Tuesday at 76 after suffering from health problems, was thrown on “Cheers” in 1982 following a hearing that involved a single word: “beer”.
But his subtle comic timing and his authenticity quickly made his character an icon of television from the 1980s.
Wendt found the former members of the “Cheers” distribution Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson last year on their “Where everyone knows your name” The podcast, and the trio quickly started to remember the shenanigans they presented themselves, which looked closely at the way their characters joked each other with each other.
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George Wendt drinking with the cast of “Cheers” outside the Boston pub which served as an exterior of the bar on the series during a live episode of “The Tonight Show” in 1993. (AP photo / Charles Krupa, file)
Date revealed that when the cast noted during rehearsals that another actor “had problems with a fairly heavy speech or something, we would get lighting in our eyes and we were going” Oh, we will be there for you at night “.” “”
But instead of supporting itself during the shooting, the casting would turn the rotations to the actor.
He continued from Wendt, “and there was a shot, I think, or at least it is the urban legend, where you can see a spitball in your hair where one of us had managed to land a while you were doing your [speech]. “”
“I will never forget that I hit you in the norm once,” replied Wendt. “You laughed like that and your mouth was so open, and I saw it, and it was a Zen moment.”
Dase also remembered when the casting came before moving into service with Jey Leno to do a special interview after the last episode of the show in 1993.
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He said that the cast had been brought to the Boston’s Bowl and Finch Pub, which served as an exterior of the bar in the series, early in the afternoon before embarking on “The Tonight Show”.
“What are you doing in a bar? You start to drink, and later you start to smoke, so when Jay Leno, he looked up with his notes, and they were going,” five, four, two, “he looked up and saw us all really for the first time and his eyes started to turn”, oh -. “We have a lot of s — For that, do you remember?” Darkened.
George Wendt as Norm Peterson on “Cheers”. (NBCU Bank / Nbcuniversal photo via Getty Images)
Wendt said it may be Leno’s first live broadcast, adding that the host “Tonight Show” may never have done another live show after that.
“I would not blame him, we were in bad shape to do anything,” said Harrelson.
Wendt, who came from an improvisation environment to the second city of Chicago, revealed that the actors maintained the fresh show throughout his eleventh season by not exceeding, which they may have exaggerated.
“After a while, John [Ratzenberger] And I would be seated there next to the others – I’m talking about the eight or nine years or something – and they would opt: “Ok, the next scene, watch”, and I would watch John and said: “An idea? He would go, “no”. … So you prayed for the first line not your part. “”
The actors also like to make flocks.
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Date remembered that around six months after having “pants” Harrelson during a show, Wendt and Kirstie Alley, who came to the show as director of the Rebecca Howe bar during the sixth season, and Wendt recovered it.
He said he had entered his dose to take a shower and that Wendt hit the door and said: “” It bothers you if I come and I shave while you are in the shower? “I went:” No, that’s good “. So the door is started by you to be opened.
The cast of “cheers”. (Aaron Rapoport / Corbis via Getty Images)
In fact, Wendt and Ratzenberger, who played all about all, helped the show start.
In 2023, during a distribution meeting at the ATX TV Festival in Austin, Texas, Wendt declared that the casting dined before the first show of Alley when they realized that they should have bought the actress – which was not at dinner – a gift.
Date, Harrelson and Rhea Perlman, who played Carla in the show, all said they were busy, then Wendt and Ratzenberger were responsible for obtaining the gift.
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“And John said,” Do you want to buy him a shotgun? “,” Wendt told the public.
“And, like you, I laughed for about five minutes,” he told the crowd. “And then immediately stopped in the parking lot, and we bought him a bizarre hunting rifle.… John and I have never been in charge of gifts again.”
Ratzenberger added: “I think you even wrote on the card:” You will have to get your way. “”
The star of “Cheers” George Wendt died peacefully in his sleep on May 20. He was 76 years old. (Getty Images)
Wendt said to Podcast “Always here Hollywood” Last December, the cast was “horrified” by the present, but “Kirsty loved”.
On the dansal podcast and Harrelson, Wendt recalled the moment when the men in the casting played “Hooky” of the series during a “heavy” episode focused on the character of Shelley Long, Diane and Carla de Perlman.
“John had just bought a boat, and he was impatient to show it, so we prepared this getaway,” said Wendt.
Dase said that when Harrelson and he arrived at the boat, they were “already stoned” and that they all called in the show of a salary phone saying that they did not feel well.
“I think someone said:” I have sea breed, heh heh “” Wendt, added, joking “, I had pressure.”
Dase said before the trip, Harrelson made him try the mushrooms for the first time.
“And I ate, I think, an extraordinary quantity of mushrooms,” he added.
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The men then took off for Catalina, a vacation island off the coast of Los Angeles, and quickly hit the waves of a hurricane in Mexico.
“There was still a huge swell, so people who are not on mushrooms would have about seasickness. But I sat there to become more and more panicked and all that you get, lapid, or whatever it is on mushrooms”, the star of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.
Dase said that he had seen Harrelson looking for relaxation, stretched on a berth, so he decided to get on the bridge to try to calm down.
He said to Wendt: “And I came and I sat next to you, and you looked at me and you went:” You are at the top of something, right? “I sort of my head shyly nodded and John was like:” Oh, to cry out loud “. But you spent the whole next 45 minutes to push me every minute or two and you said:” Breathe “, because I would literally forget to breathe and feel as if I die and you would prick me.
George Wendt and John Ratzenberger like Norm and Cliff on “Cheers”. (Nbcu photo bank)
“He was our life buoy,” added a Wendt in the Wandt, who said that even if he did not make any mushroom fields, he had sea pain during the ride.
Dase called the journey there and fell the four worst hours of his life.
The actors were all chewed the next day.
“And John said,” Do you want to buy him a shotgun? “”
Wendt pointed out: “He would have been extravagant, but I thought [James] Burrows, [the co-creator of ‘Cheers’]Schedule a helicopter with the girls should have rented and bring them and meet us on the pier, and when we got off the boat, “OK, a scene is in place.” ‘What? Oh, Jesus. ‘”
Dase said that the producers had told them that they would have let them go out on the boat if they had informed the show: “” But it is not trendy, Jimmy “, he said to Burrows.
While making fun, the cast was also sentimental.
George Wendt with the casting in a “cheers” meeting during the Emmy Awards 2024. (Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images)
Danson remembers before Nicholas Colastanto, who played the coach on the show, died during the third season, his heart disease had let him forget, and he started to cover all the surfaces of the set with his lines, one of them on a friend who was dead who read: “It is almost as if he was still there with us.”
He said the cast had noticed the line the first time they returned to the set after the death of Colasanto.
“I think we all fundamentally broke out in tears because that was what we all feel. And then we would have a ritual, for the next four or five years, when we went down to greet the public, everyone would touch the [line] “It’s almost as if he was there with us.” “”
One day, the painters were painted on the line on the wall during the dead, he said: “And we are all almost almost leaving, we were so angry when we returned.”
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The cast also insisted that a photograph of Geronimo that Colastanto had in his locker room was hung on the wall of the whole in memory of him.
Tuesday, Danson paid tribute to Wendt, saying in a statement at several points of sale: “I am devastated to hear that Georgie is no longer with us. I send all my love to [Wendt’s wife] Bernadette and the children. It will take me a long time to get used to it. I love you, Georgie. “”
