Hollywood loves a reboot, but there’s one show Ray Romano would like to leave alone.
It seems like every week we learn that a beloved series is being revived – Scrubs And Friday night light are just two of the newest – which often means that the project is populated by other actors. Yahoo Entertainment spoke with Romano and his Not a good deed co-star Lisa Kudrow and asked if there’s a show they’ve worked on that they don’t want given the reboot treatment.
“I’m just a little protective Everyone loves RaymondRomano said while promoting his new series Not a good deed. “Just because it was very personal to me.”
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“Good, YesKudrow agreed. “You can’t do that.”
Romano starred in the hit sitcom from 1996 to 2005.
“I mean, it was based on my life and I was so much a part of the creative side of it,” he explained.
Enter Doris Roberts, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett and Peter Boyle Everyone loves Raymond. (Monty Brinton/CBS/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Romano said he doesn’t mind if other countries, like India, adapt Everyone loves Raymondbut he doesn’t want “it to be restarted in America.”
“I actually like that it was rebooted there because it shows how other cultures – we’re all the same,” Romano continued. “So it’s good to see that they appreciate it.”
Kudrow, meanwhile, had a slightly different angle. “I don’t know, I think it’s okay,” says the Friends said star. “Restart whatever you want.”
Romano and Kudrow play husband and wife in Netflix’s new dark comedy. Despite shooting Friends And Everyone loves Raymond “300 meters apart” in the 90s they only just met. Kudrow told Yahoo that working with Romano is “one of my dreams that I didn’t think would happen.”
“I’m not kidding. It’s not an exaggeration,” she said. “I’d see him in something and say, ‘Look, that’s who I’d like to work with, oh my God. He’s so good.'”
Not a good deed starts streaming on Netflix December 12.
