'Frasier’s' Showrunners Explains The ‘Organic Way’ They Brought Roz Back For Season 2, But I’m Especially Touched By Peri Gilpin’s Experience With Her New Co-Stars
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00:00Kelsey, obviously, and Perry have such a great relationship.
00:04It was always the idea that we would bring her on a little bit more.
00:08First season, it felt like, boy, we really just want to...
00:11Obviously, we did bring her in for the last episode,
00:13but we wanted to make sure that we established our own characters first.
00:17And then also, we wanted to make sure we had an organic way to bring her in,
00:19that it wasn't just suddenly felt like we were just jamming in
00:24a character from the old show for no reason.
00:27And so, Joe and Kelsey and I, we all worked together to make sure that
00:33there was a natural reason.
00:34And what we came up with is that
00:37Roz's daughter, Alice, is now studying at RISD in Providence, not too far away.
00:42So she is going to be around in Boston more.
00:45And we actually get to take advantage of that in some fun ways,
00:48where Alice, in a couple episodes,
00:52starts to become a little bit part of the group.
00:55And we get to explore even more this next generation
00:58of characters from the original series.
01:00What was it like for you building a dynamic with all these new people on the show?
01:04It was very fun and very different with each person.
01:07And they were really, really friendly and open as human beings,
01:12and also wonderful actors who, you know,
01:15immediately, we started to try to find ways to connect as,
01:19you know, from their point of view and from mine.
01:22It's been a great time.