The actor recalls his scene partner protesting, “I can’t!
I got a bad back!”
“Y’know, Ray and I are getting up there.
Ray Romano as Paul and Denis Leary as Mikey on ‘No Good Deed’.Credit:SAEED ADYANI/Netflix
We’re part of the older generation.
And then as we started the show, the other scripts started to come out.”
Leary said Romano didn’t realize what he’d signed up for.
Lisa Kudrow, Ray Romano, and Denis Leary on ‘No Good Deed’.SAEED ADYANI/Netflix
“So Ray calls me in a panic, and he goes, ‘Have you seen?’
whatever it was, episode 4,” he recalled.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, I looked at it.’
He goes, ‘There’s a fight scene, there’s a big fight scene.’
And I go, ‘Well there’s another fight scene, she said, coming up after.'”
Romano didn’t think he could handle the physical toll of a fight, according to his castmate.
“He goes, ‘I can’t!
I got a bad back!'”
“I go, ‘Well, I got two bad knees.’
He goes, ‘We can’t do this!'”
The fight scene turned out to be a bit more difficult than Leary expected, though.
“I’ve got knee pads, Ray’s got back pads and shoulder pads.”
Leary and Romano performed the scene confidently at first.
“Ray and I go, ‘Okay, we can do this,'” Leary explained.
“So we go through what we think is a really cool-looking fight scene, right?
And we go, ‘What do you think?'”
It turned out that Leary’s assessment of his performance wasn’t quite accurate.
“She goes, ‘It’s horrible!
You guys are moving in slow motion!
How old are you?'”
“It was so embarrassing.
So then we had to learn to speed it up.
I think we did a pretty good job.”
Leary said his and Romano’s involvement was necessitated by the logistics of the scene’s setting.
Watch the full conversation between Leary andJennifer Hudsonabove.
