Curb Your Enthusiasmis over, but one of its stars didn’t live to seethe finaleair.
“Larry David has treated me like a god.
All of you have,” Lewis said to the gathered cast and crew after wrapping the final scene.
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“This is the greatest experience of my career, and I love each and every one of you.
I’m honored to be working with arguably the greatest sitcom writer of the last two centuries.
God bless all of you, and thanks for being so sweet to me.”
But he returned in full force for the final season.
“He had suffered so much.
He had back surgery and shoulder surgery and Parkinson’s.
He was so upset that he couldn’t be in more than one episode in season 11.
So it meant so much to him to come back in season 12.”
“We shot those final scenes just three weeks before he died to the day, I believe.
I spoke to him right after that, so I know it meant the world to him.
He loved the show, he loved Larry, he loved all of us.
All 12 seasons ofCurb Your Enthusiasmare now streaming on Max.
They are full of many, many hilarious scenes with Lewis.
