Nicholas Lyndhurst is gobsmacked he’s become a global star in his 60s.
The Only Fools and Horses legend now has fans around the world thanks to his role as sarcastic professor Alan Cornwall in the Frasier reboot. It’s a dream come true to be starring on the sitcom alongside Kelsey Grammer, who plays Frasier Crane.
He said: “I’m in my mid-60s. At this stage of my career, I wasn’t expecting to be walking through the gates of Paramount Pictures every morning.
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“I probably pinch myself every 20 minutes in this job, because working with Kelsey and working in this building is heartstoppingly wonderful.” Filming Frasier is a world away from his experience playing dozy Rodney Trotter on Only Fools And Horses years ago.
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Scripts are often changed just minutes before scenes are filmed for the show, which streams on Paramount+. Nicholas, 63, said: “The way Frasier is written and the way it’s shot are very different from the UK. The writing team is big here, and the rewrites happen every day.
“In the UK, if we were shooting in front of an audience on a Sunday, we’d lock in the script on a Friday, at the latest. At that point, you’d have at least a day to figure out what you’re doing.
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“Here, the script changes daily. It even changes when the audience is in the building. You’ve got to keep on your toes!”
Despite enjoying his Stateside success, Nicholas has no plans to quit Britain. He said: “I’m just here for the duration of the show. I’ll go home to the UK afterwards it’s absolutely wonderful to be here for now.”
It comes after Sir David Jason said it was a mistake for the Trotters to become millionaires in Only Fools and Horses The 84-year-old actor’s alter ego Del Boy and his brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) finally fulfilled their dreams of making it big in the 1996 Christmas special Time On Our Hands.
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But Sir David believes the plot left the show with nowhere else to go because it had been the family’s struggles and desperate quests to make money that had made the show funny. Speaking at a fan convention he said: “There was nowhere to go after the Trotters became millionaires and it all worked out.
“It was the end of a journey and the journey was that struggle for survival, the struggle for the family, the way that they behaved, that interaction and all of that stuff that made the Trotters ceased to exist once they had become millionaires, if you like.”
Read the full interview in this week’s Radio Times
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