‘The King of Queens’ cast pay tribute to the late Jerry Stiller in 25th anniversary special
10.10.2023 - 21:35
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Leah Remini and Kevin James, virtually reunited to celebrate the sitcom’s 25th anniversary, which included a special remembrance of the late Jerry Stiller.Stars including Gary Valentine, Victor Williams, and Patton Oswalt joined Remini and James for a table read and Q&A session in a video uploaded to Remini’s YouTube channel on Tuesday. The show’s co-creator and executive producer Michael Weithorn called it “very bittersweet” to reunite wihtout Stiller, who died in May 2020 at age 92.“He was the soul of the show in a very real way,” Weithorn said. “He grounded us.
He was a veteran who I think on camera and off camera really had a history and a professionalism that I think we all fed off of and made the show just grow deeper. He lived a long, full life, but nevertheless, no matter how good a life and long a life somebody leads, when they’re gone you really feel the loss. It’s sort of surreal that they don’t exist anymore.”He continued: “We can’t go to New York and stop in and see Jerry on Riverside Drive and say, ‘How you doing?’ It’s really… he was a beautiful, beautiful man, and he was responsible for the fact that we’re all here doing this right now.
It never would’ve happened without him.”Remini, who played the show’s lead Carrie, recalled Stiller being “the dad” of the show on-and-off screen. He portrayed Carrie’s father, Arthur, who often poked fun at his son-in-law Doug (James).“Jerry could’ve been in the first scene and they said, ‘It’s okay for you to go. You don’t have to stay all night while we’re filming,’ and he would stay,” Remini remembered.
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