Jamie Lee Curtis pays tribute to Richard Lewis after his death
Jamie Lee Curtis poured her heart out as she reminisced about her dear friend and former Everything but love Co-star Richard Lewis after his death.
“I just read that my friend Richard Lewis has passed away,” Curtis, 65, said via Instagram on Wednesday, February 28, alongside photos from their ABC sitcom. “I remember exactly where I was when I saw a billboard of him doing a stand-up special on Sunset Boulevard when we were casting the ABC pilot Anything But Love and asked the casting people to bring him in for an audition to be my best play friend. maybe friend, Marty Gold.
The actress recalled how much she admired Lewis for his work.
“I thought he was handsome,” she admitted as she walked through her memories. “He made me laugh, and that’s the one thing a strong, capable woman can’t really do for herself. He got the part when I snorted and laughed when he mispronounced the word Bundt cake.
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Curtis explained how Everything but love‘s storyline eventually became what it was: “He blew everyone else away.” It was a love triangle show and they didn’t pick up that pilot, but they got back to me and said the chemistry with Richard was so great and we could renew the original pilot, which is the show we ended up making for a few years.”
Everything but love first premiered in 1989 and ran for four seasons before ending in 1992. The show followed best friends and colleagues Marty Gold (Lewis) and Hannah Miller (Curtis) as they tried to navigate their undeniable feelings for each other while keeping their ruin friendship.
Curtis’ emotional post also detailed some of her favorite memories of Lewis from the set, writing: “He was also a stand-up comic and hated the live audience, which I, who had never done a play before, loved . He hid his lines all over the set, on props, door frames, on my face in close-up and always had a clipboard with his lines on it. It turns out he was a great actor. Deep and so very funny.”
The Everything everywhere at once star also revealed that if it wasn’t for Lewis, she wouldn’t be sober. “He helped me,” she continued. “I am forever grateful to him just for that act of grace. He found love with Joyce and that, besides his sobriety, was of course the most important thing for him. I’m crying as I write this. Strange way to say thank you to a sweet and funny man. Rest in laughter, Richard. My Marty, I love you, Hannah!
Lewis died on Monday, February 27, after suffering a heart attack at the age of 76. The news came less than a year after the actor revealed he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Lewis is survived by his wife, Joyce Lapinskywhom he married in 2005.