It's not personal, it's the business of comedy...
Kevin Can Wait has been making headlines ever since
producers killed off Kevin James' current TV wife Erinn Hayes
for his one-time TV wife Leah Remini .
And now one of the
show's cast members, Chris Roach , who plays Mott on CBS’
sitcom, says that after he saw the former King of Queens
stars play off each other, he understood what all the fuss was
about.
In an interview with Chanel Omari on StarShop on Monday,
Roach said that everyone on set was talking about Remini and
James' onscreen connection and that the first time he saw
James with Remini, who appeared on season one as a guest
star, he was floored.
James and Remini starred on King of Queens for nine seasons
from to 1998-2007.
"I thought Erinn and Kevin had great chemistry on season 1,
and I would hear people go around and say, 'but you have to see
the chemistry between Leah and Kevin?
It's undeniable and
magnetic.' I didn't really understand until I saw it for myself.
When you see it, you're like, 'Ok now I get it.'
The two of
them together are just magnetic. She makes him more funny."
"It was never personal to kill off Erinn Hayes' character," he
added.
As others have said about the shocking plot move (which never
got addressed onscreen), Roach said it happened to keep the
show going.
"The whole point of the show was that they needed more of a
story line to continue the series. Erinn's character was never
meant to last. She was amazing while it lasted. The truth is
her getting killed off the show suddenly was the point Kevin was
trying to make: in real life, these things can happen and
sometimes are not explainable, because that's life. He wanted to
portray that authentic message throughout the series."
James echoed a similar sentiment on Oct. 14.
"The plot of the show didn’t have enough drive," he told the
New York Daily News . "If we got through a second
season, I wouldn’t see us getting through a third one. We were
literally just running out of ideas."
Of her guest star appearance in season one, James
gushed, "When she came on...it was just the greatest." He
added, "Fans loved it, everybody on the crew loved it. We just
knew right away, so we thought, 'How can we get her here full-
time to be on the show?'"
Just kill off the other female lead, that's all!
Kevin Can Wait airs Mondays on CBS.
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