As Auntie Rae on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Ellia English is often called upon to be a voice of reason in the midst of household chaos caused by Larry David. (Photo by Edna Sims-Bruce)
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Oct 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM PDT
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Oct 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM PDT
The prospect has delicious irony written all over it.
What will Larry David — the master of awkward and embarrassing humor — dream up for Michael Richards’ Kramer character when he comes into contact with David’s interloping Black family on the new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”?
The seventh season, which premiered last month, features a reunion of the four original members of the “Seinfeld” cast — three years after Richards’ N-word inflected Laugh Factory meltdown.
Unfortunately, David isn’t saying how the show will tackle Richards’ brush with racial politics — at least not yet.
However, according to actress Ellia English, who reprises her role as Auntie Rae on the Emmy-winning series, it should be worth the wait.
“The family has gotten rather comfortable now in Larry’s off-kilter world,” said English last week of hers, Vivica A Fox and J.B. Smoove’s gatecrashing of David’s surreal life.
“We’re not in the first episode, they’re keeping us a secret until the second or third. But for [“Seinfeld”] fans seeing the old gang will be heaven. I finished my scenes early and had to go out of town so I didn’t get to work with them.”
English added: “So much time has passed with that incident and I know [Richards] did a lot of apologizing afterwards. I think they might tap into that side of it. Larry’s so creative, but we’ll just have to see.”
Maybe Rae could box his ears, reminiscent of her very first scene on the sixth season of the show, where she tackled David, who had wandered downstairs with a white sheet over his head.
“Well, the hard tackle was really on a stunt guy, said the author of the recently-published “I Am That I Am — A Journey Through Adolescence,” “but Larry’s such a sweetheart. I love his brilliant mind, his sense of timing and his ad-libs in the moment. I’m always telling him, ‘Larry, I’m coming to steal a kiss.’”
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