Hank Azaria on His Varied Roles: “Once you’re known for doing different things, people want you to try different things”
Azaria on his career as an actor in ‘The SImpsons’, ‘Ray Donovan’ and ‘The Birdcage’
Azaria on his career as an actor in ‘The SImpsons’, ‘Ray Donovan’ and ‘The Birdcage’
Hank Azaria must be having a tough week. Not only do ongoing pay disputes threaten the cancellation (or at the very least will leave him with a significant salary reduction) of The Simpsons, which Azaria has been a cast member of since the show’s inception, but Azaria’s new NBC sitcom, Free Agents, has been canceled by NBC because of low ratings.
Hank and Kathryn talk about why they came back to TV, working together and if Hank’s role in The Birdcage was really based on his Grandmother
“You start with the voice. Or I do anyway. And then the body tends to follow that.”