German fan asks what happened to the Seinfeld actors after the show ended and whether they made enough money; thread clarifies the cast were well-compensated and generally wanted the show to end.
Hi guys,
i am a big Seinfeld-fan from germany. We are not that well-informed about the actors of thatz show. What happend to them? I heard they were pretty pissed, cuz jerry stopped the show.
What do they do for living now?? How much money did they make with Seinfeld? Enough to kick back somewhere in Hawaii?
Marius
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After the devastating blow of having their only source of income ripped away by heartless Jerry, Jason Alexander who played George gets by washing dishes in the diner on which Monk's was based and Julia Louis-Dreyfus who played Elaine finds herself turning tricks on some of New York's seedier avenues. Only Michael Richards, who played Kramer and now markets his own brand of portable tie-dispenser as inspired by the show, earns enough to rent an apartment as impressive as the one he apparently lived in while incomeless throughout the series.
Brian
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Not at all, really. Everyone, except Michael Richards, wanted to end the show when it did in the spring of 1998. (They'd each pocketed $15 million just for their last season of work...and $6 million each of the last couple of years before that.) Richards didn't even protest much when Jerry opted to pack it in, and eventually came to agree with the decision.
As I mentioned, they walked away with over $25 million for just the last three years of the show, not counting residuals they get for the re-runs. They're all set for life---especially Jerry, who was half owner of the show and has collected a total of a half-billion dollars for the first two syndication contract cycles. (He has a personal fortune that still tops $500 million even after a year and a half off the air.)
What are they all doing? Jerry still has a multimillion dollar contract as
TV spokesman for American Express, plus some occasional standup and guest TV
dates. He's still working on that new standup routine over a year after
retiring his old one at Carnegie Hall...no one knows when he'll launch a major
performing tour again, but it's expected sometime in 2000. He has said he will
NOT do another sitcom and has no plans to revive the old series except POSSIBLY
as a one-shot TV or theatrical film...but there's no script for such a film and
no plans to do one for at least another year or two, if then. He does say he
eventually wants to try some talk TV...although when CBS approached him to
guest-host for David Letterman during his illness, he declined, sensing it
might be seen as trying to take the show away from his good friend. So we won't
see Jerry on TV again on a regular basis until or unless either Letterman or
Leno retire.
Michael Richards will be the first to go back to series TV. He has an
adventure comedy series set to roll in the fall on NBC, in which he plays a
Krameresque private detective.
Jason Alexander has done a lot of independent film directing and will be a
star of the upcoming "Rocky and Bullwinkle".
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is slated to star in the upcoming "Gilligan's Island"
film and other projects.
None of them needs to work another day in his or her life. They continue
working anyway.Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY
After a long absense, we heard from Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY.
Hey Bob, glad to see you back. Where ya been?
On the radio, wafting through the ether. ;-) Seriously, been watching the episodes (which still play at 7:30 PM weeknights in our market) and you know something? They still play fresh and funny,
Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY