Aaron Sorkin is making the publicity rounds for his new movie, Molly’s Game. As a result, he’s game to talk about his past projects, including what it was like to leave The West Wing, and have famous grump Larry David give him advice about how traumatic it would be.
As Sorkin tells the Hollywood Reporter, when NBC announced that he was leaving the show, David called him within an hour, and told him emphatically to never watch the show again:
Now, Larry David had left Seinfeld a couple seasons before it ended, and Larry David said, “Listen, whatever you do, you can’t ever watch the show again, because either it’s going to be great and you’re going to be miserable, or it’s going to be less than great, and you’re going to be miserable. Either way, you’re going to be miserable.” And I thought, well, it’s Larry, he’s professionally miserable.
So, Sorkin didn’t believe the Seinfeld creator, basically, and just like when you don’t listen when your friend tells you not to be friends with your ex, it was to his detriment. When he watched the new season, this is what happened:
And I put it in my VCR, which, again, was how we watched things, and I don’t think 15 or 20 seconds went by before I — this is not an exaggeration — I go to the TV and slammed it off. It was like watching somebody make out with my girlfriend.
Looks like Larry David is good for more than impeccable curmudgeonly humor and Bernie Sanders impressions.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
