NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Even after playing the iconic character of George Costanza in the celebrated 'Seinfeld' show, Jason Alexander likes to keep a low-key profile. The actor was recently spotted in New York during one of the Broadway openings and he was in a jolly mood. The ‘Young Sheldon’ actor joked that doesn’t get ‘mobbed’ like other stars and he is lucky in that sense. “I get recognized and people are very sweet. And it’s generally a salute and a wave and a ‘Hey, Jason!’ kind of thing.”
The 63-year-old actor said he feels fortunate for being a part of the sitcom in which the actors’ union fights for fairer residual rates from streaming. “We were extremely lucky. I guess that period of production was in the best way, a kind of a golden age for television and for television actors … Everything, it seems like a decade after we were done, the whole model changed and I don’t understand,” he said.
Why did fans stop mobbing Jason Alexander?
Jason Alexander, who played George Constanza on the 90s hit sitcom ‘Seinfeld’ is not easily spotted, and feels it must have been his ‘bad aging. “I’ve aged badly, that’s why people don’t bother me," he said. Talking to PageSix in New York City, he further said, “I am very fortunate that people like my work and they seem to want to show their appreciation but I can still live my life. Not everybody can do that but I can.”
'It’s a comedy send-up of the old Noel Cowardesque kind of shows'
Alexander is making a return and rekindling his theatrical roots with ‘The Cottage’ Broadway. He has directed this comedy show, starring ‘Will & Grace’ alum Eric McCormack, Alex Moffat, Laura Bell Bundy, and Lilli Cooper. “I was looking for pieces to direct and I don’t, for some reason, I’m not prideful about this, but I’m not an easy laugh apparently,” he told Page Six. “And I was sitting and reading this play and laughing out loud,” he added.
‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ star elaborated, “It’s a comedy send-up of the old Noel Cowardesque kind of shows and the films of the ’30s and ’40s. It takes place in a countryside cottage outside of England … in 1923. It is a place that is used often for all kinds of little Infidelities and they all pile up on the occasion of this play and it becomes a little bit madcap. But inside of all that, there’s also a wonderful sort of feminist story of a woman coming into her own ability to determine her own path.”
