Actor Jason Alexander from the comedy series “Seinfeld” threatened to leave the show because his character, George Costanza, didn’t have enough screen time, according to a biography.
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During an episode of the third season of the series “Seinfeld,” actor Jason Alexander threatened to leave because his character, George Costanza, didn’t have enough screen time.
In the episode called “The Pen,” Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) visit Jerry’s parents in Florida. Costanza and Kramer, played by Michael Richards, were not present. This situation annoyed Alexander, but everything was resolved.
“But Jason threatens to leave after finding out he’s also not in the episode. He gets angry,” wrote Richards in his autobiography, “Entrances and Exits.”
According to Richards, this would have affected Alexander’s ego because of a Tony Award he had won. “But this business generates both huge egos and incredible insecurity, and this episode is one of those ego wake-up calls,” he explained.
“If you write me out again, do it permanently,” Alexander said to head writer Larry David. “If you don’t need me here, I don’t want to be here,” Alexander continued.
In an interview with Access Hollywood, Alexander thanked for not being fired from the series after that discussion. “Thank God he didn’t say ‘Go away,’ because then I would have had no life and no career,” he said.
The series “Seinfeld” first aired in July 1989, and its final episode aired in May 1998.
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