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UPI
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Richard Kind: 'I love 'Poker Face.' I love Natasha. I love to work.'
1 of 4 | Rhea Perlman and Richard Kind can now be seen in Season 2 of "Poker Face." Photo courtesy of Peacock NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) -- Only Murders in the Building, Mad About You and Spin City icon Richard Kind says guest starring on Poker Face was an easy "yes" for him. Airing Thursdays on Peacock, Season 2 of the mystery-of-the-week dramedy stars Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a human lie detector who helps solve crimes as she drifts from town to town. Kind's episode casts him as Jeffrey, the doting husband of Beatrix (Rhea Perlman), a mob boss who has been trying to kill Charlie. "They were paying me," Kind, 68, joked with UPI in a recent Zoom interview when asked why he took the guest spot. "I love Poker Face. I love Natasha. I love to work. I love Rhea and it's fun. It was a good role. It was a blast. I would rather have been an evil guy on the show, but I was very nice," he added. "I was a good guy." While Beatrix commits crimes to support them, Jeffrey stays at home, cooking and ironing, until he can't take the stress anymore and becomes a government informant. "I don't want to be involved in any of this," Kind said about Jeffrey's feelings toward Beatrix's business. "In fact, I really want to be oblivious to it all and that's where the comedy is." That's also why viewers may be shocked when Jeffrey's story-line goes in some unexpectedly violent directions. "In order to make twists and turns work, you have to be even more truthful, so that you're drawing the audience in," Kind said. "Taking the sincerity or taking the truth of what's in the script is always a challenge, so I really had to invest in that," he added. "First and foremost, he loves his wife. He really loves her and I think she loves him. He's caught between a rock and a hard place as far as what the rest of his life is going to be, but he does it for self-preservation and not to attack his wife or attack her world. ... He's just not happy and that's sort of sad for him." This isn't the first time Kind has worked with Perlman. The TV vets have known each other for years and previously co-starred in the 2000 Broadway play, The Allergist's Wife. "Tony Roberts preceded me in that role," Kind recalled. "Tony was a friend and he gave me a piece of advice, which actually was the best advice I ever heard as an actor -- not just for the role, but for all roles. He said: 'Love your wife. If you love her, the audience will love her, and the audience will love you.' And I took that to heart and I've kept it with, actually, a lot of roles that I've done since." Kind said he thinks Poker Face creator Rian Johnson is a "brilliant man" who has managed to capture the magic of those private detective shows from the 1970s and '80s that viewers seem so nostalgic for these days. "He probably loved stories like Columbo or Name of the Game or McMillan and Wife," Kind said, noting the protagonists of those shows often found themselves in crazy situations with guest stars playing "bigger-than-life people," just like they do in Poker Face. "I think that's a wonderful thing," Kind added. In addition to being a fixture in Pixar films, the actor was also a longtime Curb Your Enthusiasm cast member and recently served as the sidekick/announcer for Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. Always in demand, he is still having fun as an actor and has no plans to retire. "I live for my kids. I live for golf and I live for work. That's what I live for now. I have friends, too," Kind said. "Acting is all playing pretend. We play. it's a big sandbox," he explained. "Who wouldn't want to do this? I love it. I can't live without it. When people retire, a lot of them die, but work can keep you active and fun and give you a purpose. Do I like it? I adore it. I can't live without it. God forbid I should be unemployed, I'd still go do little plays for no money. I love it. Love it, love it, love it." Natasha Lyonne turns 46: a look back Natasha Lyonne arrives for the premiere of "The Grey Zone" in New York City on October 8, 2002. Photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI | License Photo
Perth Now
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
‘Overjoyed': Beloved Aussie influencer announces pregnancy
Business owner and influencer Jade Brycki has announced she is pregnant with her second child. The 30-year-old and her husband Lachie — who welcomed son Fletcher less than one year ago — broke the news to their more than 600,000 Instagram followers on Tuesday afternoon. 'Lach, fletch and I are overjoyed to share that our little family will be growing this December 🥹❤️,' the couple captioned three adorable photos of Jade's bump. Friends and followers flocked to the comments to congratulate the young family on their exciting news. If you'd like to view this content, please adjust your . To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Guide. 'DARLING!!!! Crying. So happy for you. Ugh x,' Perth influencer Em Davies wrote. TV presenter Abbey Gelmi wrote: 'Oh honey congratulations.' '🥹🫶🏼 so happy for you guys,' podcaster and health influencer Steph Claire Smith added. The happy couple tied the knot in October 2022 and now work together on a podcast called Mad About You where they discuss all things about relationships. They also own clothing brand Tunchy wear.
Calgary Herald
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Calgary Herald
Calgary Expo: Helen Hunt talks Twister, As Good as it Gets, Paul Reiser and what her dream role would be
Article content 'I had to do a U.K. accent,' she said. 'Boy, when you hear it and it's bad and it's coming out of your own mouth. I have a good enough ear to know when it's bad but I didn't know enough to make it good. I worked on it for a year. It might take other actors less amount of time. For me it was a year until I could walk out there and not worry about it.' Article content Hunt rose to fame during her seven-season run as Jamie Buchman in Mad About You in the 1990s. There was a reboot in 2019. Hunt starred opposite Paul Reiser, who played her film-director husband. When asked who some of her favourite people were to work with, she again didn't hesitate. Article content 'Paul Reiser for sure,' she said, again to tremendous applause. 'I would probably pick him. Not only is he one of the best but we had eight years to be together. I hear stories about people who worked together in TV shows and they don't get along, I don't know what I would have done. I really don't. Because I just lucked out. He and I are still friends, we see each other all the time. Oh my God, we would see each other more than we would see our partners in real life for eight years. So if I didn't adore him and didn't love playing with him, it would have been a long day.' Article content Article content Hunt was still working on Mad About You when she was cast it one of her pivotal roles. In James L. Brooks As Good as It Gets she played the single mother of a chronically ill child who befriends a misanthropic author with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder played by Jack Nicolson. The film won both Hunt and Nicholson Academy Awards. Article content 'It's always the writing,' she said.'Ninety per cent of it all is the writing. I was working on that and doing Mad About You at the same time. I was a blonde Tuesday through Thursday and a brunette Friday to Monday.I was saying to someone in front of the writer and director Jim Brooks — who has made some of my favourite movies and your too, I bet — a friend of his asked me which of these parts was more like me and I said 'Well, Mad About You, probably.' Article content Article content Jim Brooks disagreed. Article content 'I thought about that and then after not seeing it for decades, I saw the last 25 minutes recently because I went to a screening of it and I thought 'He's right. I'm very sensitive to what people say, I care about my kid in a fierce way, although I didn't have a kid when i did that part. There is a lot of me in there even though she lives in a part of the world, has a different job and speaks a differently, there was a lot of me in her.' Article content As for Twister, a 1996 blockbuster in which Hunt played storm-chaser Jo Harding, Hunt says she is nothing like that character. Article content 'I would be driving the other way,' she said. Article content She looks back on it fondly, but admits it was a tough shoot. Article content 'We were in the mud, we were in the firehoses, we were in the wind,' she says. 'The most fun part …was hanging out with all these guys. It was like Wizard of Oz in that way — 'you were there and you were there' — and they were all around this Dorothy character that I got to play. We worked until six in the morning in 100 it's not like the most fun you've ever had. But we laughed so hard played cards all night. That's kind of what movie-making is sometimes. You're bored and you get so close.' Article content
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Helen Hunt Lists The Los Angeles Home She Has Owned For Over Two Decades For $15 Million
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Integrity is a word attributed to a select few entertainers. Actress Helen Hunt is one, so it's fitting that when choosing a place to live in Los Angeles in 2001, she picked a home that embodied the same ideals as she does. 'I wanted a house with history and architectural integrity,' she told The Wall Street Journal of her decision to purchase her 6,000-square-foot 1931 Spanish-style residence in 2001, which she is now putting on the market for $14.995 million. Purchased for $4.62 million, Hunt was drawn to the 'stone floors brought to the U.S. thick beautiful stucco, plaster walls, and glorious archways.' Don't Miss:Inspired by Uber and Airbnb – Deloitte's fastest-growing software company is transforming 7 billion smartphones into income-generating assets – The actress, who won an Academy Award for 'As Good As It Gets," completed several updates. These included adding a glass staircase to offer natural light and turning the pool house into a proper guesthouse. Hunt's listing comes after she purchased another Los Angeles area home earlier this year in Brentwood for $6.45 million, according to The Robb Report. The three-bedroom, four-bath home is almost 3,250 square feet on a single level and is a considerable downsize from the house she currently has listed. Despite her big screen success, Hunt earned much of her fortune from the sitcom 'Mad About You,' in which she starred with Paul Reiser. In its final season, which ended in 1999, both stars earned $1 million per episode, according to Forbes. The series saw Hunt garner four Emmy and three Golden Globe wins. By 1998, the news website listed Hunt's net worth at $31 million, which has since increased significantly during her lengthy career, including 100 film and TV show starring roles. Trending: , which provides access to a pool of short-term loans backed by residential real estate with just a $100 minimum. Despite her 90s success, Hunt says that the byproduct of fame was never something she coveted, telling The Guardian in 2022, 'There were a couple of years when I was a little spooked,' she said of the paparazzi attention following her Oscar win. 'I was afraid that I could never unring that bell.' Instead, Hunt has taken lesser roles and appeared on stage, a love that began with her father, an acting coach and theater director. 'I didn't even know if I wanted to be acting, singing, or directing. I just wanted to be in the building,' she told The Guardian. Hunt appeared on stage in Harold Pinter's 'Betrayal,' in Chicago earlier this year. She also recently appeared in the TV shows 'Blindspotting,' on Starz, 'Hacks,' on Max. She also recently starred in the short documentary, "USA Through Film," produced by the BBC. In it, Hunt takes viewers on a tour of El Paso, Texas, where she worked as a stage actress early in her career. Read Next: Maker of a life-changing asthma device with 12,000+ patients waiting, FDA clearance, and a 67% drop in attacks — now Image: Shutterstock Send To MSN: 0 This article Helen Hunt Lists The Los Angeles Home She Has Owned For Over Two Decades For $15 Million originally appeared on Sign in to access your portfolio
Boston Globe
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘It's just that stand-up is the thing I love': Paul Reiser on returning to his roots
Advertisement But Reiser, who will be at The Cabot in Beverly on April 25, finally returned to the road about a decade ago and says he's right where he belongs. 'People say, 'You don't have to do it,'' he says. 'I don't have to, I just love performing.' Paul Reiser as Dr. Owens in "Stranger Things." Netflix Q. What keeps you going out there? Are you constantly writing material and need an audience? A. I wish it were that, where I've got to tell somebody, and my wife has already heard this crap. But it's just that stand-up is the thing I love. I don't love airports, I don't love connecting flights. I tell my agent it's got to be a direct flight and not too late because I like to be in pajamas at 9:45 if possible. Advertisement I've been on Just before I was speaking to you, I was working on a bit that's a couple of months old. There's one little section that is not working. I love the fine tuning of it and the precision of it. And it is precision. I'll write as meticulously as I can even though when I get on stage I won't do it exactly that way. I don't memorize everything. From left: Mary Matalin, Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, and James Carville in a 1998 episode of "Mad About You." Saeed Adyani Q. How has your stand-up evolved since the early days? A. I have a hard time watching old stuff, but when I do see a glimpse of it, there are themes of things I'm still questioning, that are universal. But certainly as you get older, you have more to talk about. You've seen more life. What's also great is when the audience now comes to see me, it's not 1978, 'And here's comedian number 11.' If people are coming and they bought a ticket and they came to see me, because they know me from something. Probably 'Mad About You.' It really does feel like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks 'I know this guy. We grew up together and we got married around the same time. We had kids around the same time.' And the same warmth that I think they bring, I feel towards them. The idea that they bought a ticket, drove here, and are staying up late, that's not nothing. Because I know to get me out of my house and go see a show, it takes some convincing. Advertisement And maybe younger people come, too, and they're confused — 'Wait, why is the doctor from 'Stranger Things' trying to be funny?' Q. Has your approach to writing changed? A. I write more, but I throw out more. Sometimes I'll think of something funny but say that's too easy, or that's not me or that's not what I want to say. I try to not watch other comics but something will pop up on YouTube or on Instagram and if I see somebody doing a similar bit, I say, 'I guess I'll throw mine out.' If you see other people doing it then it's pretty low-hanging fruit so I'll look for something different. It's part of why I did my first special since the early '90s last year. I felt I needed to put my flag in the ground, let someone else see it and say, 'Well, he already did that joke.' Q. When you say 'that's not me,' are you close to your onstage persona? A. It's mostly the same. When I went back out a couple of years ago, someone asked if my stand-up was like my 'Mad About You' character. The show grew out of my stand-up — I even called my character Paul because I didn't want to have to act too hard. Nobody's going to come to my show and say, 'Whoa, that's not what I was expecting at all.' Advertisement For better or for worse, this is what I do. I don't sit here and come up with ideas for world peace or political insight. I was opening for John Denver around 1980. I was talking about relationship stuff, like how taking a shower together sounds sexy, but one of you is always cold and then John Denver would come out and he would do spiritual or uplifting songs. We were out for a drink one night, and I said, 'I feel a little silly. I'm talking about sharing food, you're talking about this other stuff' and he said, 'People have to start on the ground before they can get to the sky.' So I thought, 'So there is validity and value to what I'm doing.' That always stayed with me. What I'm doing is entertaining. And, by the way, it's not mandatory. You don't have to come, but if you do, we're going to have an evening of solid laughs and you're going to go home smiling. I tell people that I'm the only one who offers a money-back guarantee. If you're not completely enamored and you don't have a great time, I will come back next year — and I'll take you to see somebody funnier. So you can't lose is what I'm saying. Interview was edited for length and clarity.
