Jason Alexander said that the star of "Seinfeld" was "impossible" with which to work
The actor had trouble finding a rhythm with Heidi Swedberg, who played the fiancée of George Susan.
Seinfeld Perhaps a "show on nothing", but that does not mean that the public had no big feelings about the little one that happened On the sitcom . Of Kramer ( Michael Richards ) First name to find out if someone was "worthy of sponge", viewers cared about these four unlikely New Yorkers and their misadventures.
They also cared about the people with whom the quartet connected. By Jerry's ( Jerry breastfeld ) Endless failed relations with Elaine ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus )) Absorbed little friends, these secondary characters have divided viewers that they should stay or not. This made the relative consensus around George ( Jason Alexander ) Girlfriend - and later engaged - Susan Ross ( Heidi Swedberg ), all the more surprising. A leader of NBC who first worked with George and Jerry on an idea of Sitcom starting in season 4, Susan was all that George and his friends were not: from the upper class, self -assured, snob and conduct. The show broke the couple incompatible on several occasions, but they got engaged at the start of season 7. Of course, in one of the most memorable episodes in the series, Susan was killed via glue. market before being able to pass with marriage.
Long after the fact, Alexander said in an interview that Susan had been struck off not because the public did not want to see George as a husband but because Swedberg was "impossible" with whom to work. Read the rest to discover what he said else and why he apologized later and resumed his comments.
Read this then: Michael Douglas shouted on the set until she cries, the former actor of the child said .
Susan was the biggest role of Swedberg to date.
Swedberg began her career as a professional actress in 1989. In addition to supporting roles in films, especially In the country ; Welcome home, Roxy Carmichael ; And Kindergarten cop , she also appeared in guest roles in television shows, especially Matlock ,, Thirty -one ,, North exhibition , And Empty nest .
Her big role as a breakthrough came at the age of 26 when she won the part of Susan Ross Seinfeld . At the beginning, it seemed that his character would only have a brief life in the show as one of the leaders of NBC to whom George and Jerry launched their terrible sitcom in season 4. However, Susan remained, and soon She gave George a box of Cuban cigars and connect with him to the sneaky.
But she and Alexander had trouble finding their pace.
However, from the start, there were problems behind the scenes. In a 2015 interview with Howard Stern , Alexander admitted that he and Swedberg did not have gel as an actor. "I could not understand how to play on her," he told the host of the radio ( via The Hollywood Reporter ). "Her instinct to make a scene, where the comedy was, and mine were always failed. And she would do something, and I would go:" Ok, I see what she will do - I'm going to adapt to She. 'And I would adjust myself, then it would change. ""
Before saying that, however, Alexander wanted to explain that he had no problem with Swedberg personally. "The preamble to this is the actress is this wonderful girl, Miss Swedberg, and I love her," he told Stern. "She is a great girl."
But Larry David had a plan for the couple on the screen.
It was Seinfeld co-creator Larry David Who told Alexander very early that the writers already provided that Susan and George get engaged. Despite the actor's hesitation, there was a narrative reason to keep the couple together. According to Alexander, David said to him: "We could do the most horrible things to [Susan], and the public was still on the side of [George]." Given the way a george character could be unmanageable, having a straight sheet for him to play was comedy Gold.
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Alexander's co-stars would have accepted.
Alexander then told Stern that Seinfeld and Louis-Dreyfus also had trouble connecting with Swedberg. "They are going," what do you know? It is [explanative] impossible. It's impossible ", he said.
As Alexander remembers, one day, when the Grogna group about Susan as a character, it was Louis-Dreyfus who made the suggestion that was finally going to become canon. "Julia said," You don't want to kill her? "", He said. "And Larry said:" Ka-Bang! ""
The next thing that Alexander knew, Susan was killed in the final of season 7, "The Invitations", after having lick the poisoned glue on the cheap wedding invitations that George had bought, and Swedberg left the show.
Later, he apologized and clarified his comments.
The day after his interview with Stern broadcast, Alexander's interview became viral, as Fans who had loved Susan were standing in the arms. In addition, he considered that his comments had been misinterpreted, in particular by reiterating what Louis-Dreyfus would have said.
Alexander went to Twitter To eliminate confusion, displaying a long declaration. "Ok people, I feel officially horrible," he reads in part. "Yesterday on @Stershow, I told a story that I told years ago on my personal difficulties and my insecurity by playing George against the Susan that Heidi Swedberg created. You all wanted to kill her. So told the story to try to clarify that nobody wanted to kill Heidi. "The actor explained that the comment of his co-star simply provided a creative inspiration to David and Seinfeld, who wanted to find a creative way to remove George commitment.
He also said he had personal and professional respect for Swedberg. "But by telling this story, it seems that we put a heavy burden on Heidi," he continued. "Me, personally, I am not. Heidi would always ask if there was something in the scenes she could do or if I had thoughts. She was generous and graceful and I am so angry with me -Mer to tell this story in any way that could decrease. If I had more maturity or more security in my own work, I would surely have taken its request and possibly tried to adjust the scenes with She. She surely offered. "
Alexander put an end to the declaration with personal apology to his former fiancée on the screen and to a plea so that everyone "calm down and enjoy the reruns and thought:" Why did he think that it did not work? It's awesome "."
Swedberg finally went from the theater.
After Swedberg left Seinfeld, she won some additional roles, including small pieces in films, including 1996 Closely and 1999 Galaxy Quest . She also continued to play guest roles on television, with appearances on Er ,, Gilmore Girls , And Bone , among other popular shows. However, in 2010, she went to play and turned to His first love: music . The musician born in Hawaii plays ukulele and publishes children's albums under the name of Heidi Swedberg and the Sukey Jump Band. She also performs with another group called The Smoking Jackets. Swedberg's latest player credit was in a 2010 episode of Hawthorne . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Although Swedberg never responded publicly to the severe interview with Alexander or his apologies, even before that, she did not seem to look back as an actor very affectionately. In 2013, while promoting one of her albums, she said The music website without depression That "there is no lost love" between her and the sitcoms. She also said in an interview with The Girl website is gone The same year, "the world of television was so restrictive, so conservative and frankly, a dog dog, not supported and not at all fun. During this is a great relief. I feel so free now.
