Sitting down with Fraiser
Kelsey Grammer plays the character Beast in "X-Men 3: The Last Stand," which premieres Monday at the Cannes Film Festival. 
Wayne Ma takes a shameless picture of Kelsey Grammer so that people will believe the interview happened.
Video footage of Kelsey Grammer sitting in the villa before a news conference
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The best part about the last years of "Fraiser" was that audiences could see and understand how the character got himself into his absurd situations, said actor Kelsey Grammer.
"After 10 years in Seattle, he definitely was frantic and frenzied," Grammer said.
Grammer is at the Cannes Film Festival promoting "X-Men 3: The Last Stand." In the film, he plays Beast, a blue and highly cerebral mutant.
The characters of Fraiser and Beast or "both men of thought and action," Grammer said. "But Beast is more formidable. I guess you could say that Beast is slow to act, while Fraiser is quick to act."
In 2005, Grammer hosted Fox TV's "The Sketch Show," a sketch comedy show based off the British version. The show was quickly canceled.
"It was an interesting collaboration with the Brits," he said. "Some of it translated really well and some of it didn't."
Grammer said Fox probably shouldn't have asked him to be a part of it, because Fraiser "casts a big shadow." Audiences aren't comfortable seeing Grammer act as someone other than Fraiser on TV, he said.
"But maybe they are more comfortable seeing me in (X-Men 3) because of all the makeup I have on," Grammer said.
Grammer said he was surprised that comic book fans had pegged him to play Beast years ago in the comic book magazine Wizard. In fact, he didn't even know about the Beast character until he was contacted about the part.
Director Matthew Vaughn -- who aburptly left production and was replaced by current director Brett Ratner -- was the person who really championed for him to get the part, Grammer said.
Meanwhile, Grammer said that he really enjoyed the last Sideshow Bob episode he did on "The Simpsons," which was titled "The Italian Bob." In the episode, Bob starts a fresh life in Italy and even gets to sing, he said.
Grammer said he doesn't have any plans to do the Sideshow Bob character again, "but you never know."
Grammer even has a favorite Sideshow Bob line.
"It's the one where he's using dynamite. Lisa asks: 'Do you know what you're doing?' and Bob goes [Grammer changes into his Sideshow Bob voice]: Lisa, you don't spend 10 years as a homicidal maniac without learning a few things about dynamite."
Wayne Ma takes a shameless picture of Kelsey Grammer so that people will believe the interview happened.
Video footage of Kelsey Grammer sitting in the villa before a news conference
***
The best part about the last years of "Fraiser" was that audiences could see and understand how the character got himself into his absurd situations, said actor Kelsey Grammer.
"After 10 years in Seattle, he definitely was frantic and frenzied," Grammer said.
Grammer is at the Cannes Film Festival promoting "X-Men 3: The Last Stand." In the film, he plays Beast, a blue and highly cerebral mutant.
The characters of Fraiser and Beast or "both men of thought and action," Grammer said. "But Beast is more formidable. I guess you could say that Beast is slow to act, while Fraiser is quick to act."
In 2005, Grammer hosted Fox TV's "The Sketch Show," a sketch comedy show based off the British version. The show was quickly canceled.
"It was an interesting collaboration with the Brits," he said. "Some of it translated really well and some of it didn't."
Grammer said Fox probably shouldn't have asked him to be a part of it, because Fraiser "casts a big shadow." Audiences aren't comfortable seeing Grammer act as someone other than Fraiser on TV, he said.
"But maybe they are more comfortable seeing me in (X-Men 3) because of all the makeup I have on," Grammer said.
Grammer said he was surprised that comic book fans had pegged him to play Beast years ago in the comic book magazine Wizard. In fact, he didn't even know about the Beast character until he was contacted about the part.
Director Matthew Vaughn -- who aburptly left production and was replaced by current director Brett Ratner -- was the person who really championed for him to get the part, Grammer said.
Meanwhile, Grammer said that he really enjoyed the last Sideshow Bob episode he did on "The Simpsons," which was titled "The Italian Bob." In the episode, Bob starts a fresh life in Italy and even gets to sing, he said.
Grammer said he doesn't have any plans to do the Sideshow Bob character again, "but you never know."
Grammer even has a favorite Sideshow Bob line.
"It's the one where he's using dynamite. Lisa asks: 'Do you know what you're doing?' and Bob goes [Grammer changes into his Sideshow Bob voice]: Lisa, you don't spend 10 years as a homicidal maniac without learning a few things about dynamite."
posted by Wayne Ma at
10:34 AM
1 Comments:
Nice going, Wayne. Fraiser lasted too long, but it was still better than most sitcoms. Especially since the character was a spinoff, usually a recipe for crap.
Keep working it, you'll get into the right parties.
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