Ray Romano Jokes Lisa Kudrow ‘Refused’ to Work With Him Before ‘No Good Deed’

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00:00Um, she refused every time I, uh, I tried.

00:03Yeah.

00:05No, we never met. We had never met.

00:08Uh, the first time we met was at the table read.

00:10That's right. And I was dying to work with Ray Romano for years

00:15because I'd see him and stuff after Raymond and went,

00:18oh, my God, he's such a good actor.

00:20He's effortless. Oh, my God, I would love to work with him.

00:23I bet that'll never happen.

00:25And then this came up and I said,

00:27okay, I don't know if I need to read the script even

00:29because it's, yes, it's Liz Feldman,

00:32Ray, my husband in it, yeah.

00:34Well, I didn't know. I took the job before you were cast in it.

00:38And then they told me and it was just like a bonus. Yeah.

00:42Well, the writing, I mean, the writing was great.

00:44The tone of it.

00:45Uh, I got to play things I've never played before.

00:50There's, you know, it's dark.

00:52It's emotional. It's funny.

00:55I knew her work from, uh, from Dead to Me.

00:58Um, I knew, you know, the tone that she was trying to go for.

01:04It was just all a nice challenge and appealing and, yeah,

01:08it was kind of an easy decision, really.

01:09Yeah. Yeah. I don't have anything to add to that.

01:13And I got to read, I don't know how many scripts you read.

01:15I got to read like five scripts.

01:17Oh, no, I didn't. Before I met her.

01:19And I just, every time the script ended,

01:21I wanted to see the next one.

01:22Yeah. I got concerned.

01:24I read three and felt like, well, okay, but what happened?

01:29And what's my role in it?

01:30Yeah, well, that's, and that's what you want the audience to feel.

01:33Yeah.

01:34Well, my character has a hard time, uh, expressing himself

01:38and he, uh, keeps things bottled up a little.

01:41So I tapped into that pretty easily.

01:44Yeah. He does, he does things that maybe I wouldn't

01:48and he, he probably has more, uh, trouble with anger than I do,

01:53but it's all there. It's all there somewhere.

01:56Yeah. I don't know.

01:57I mean, I always bring something of myself to everything

02:02and I don't need to know exactly what that is.

02:05I know Liz was saying, oh, this is close to you, this one.

02:09And I, you know, it was just like, yep, but I, I don't, maybe, yeah.

02:15But I don't want to know what that is.

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