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Lena Waithe’s media company, Hillman Grad, cleared the release of an unreleased clip from the interview with Kym Whitley. Kym Whitley is a comedian and an actress, and in the video, she retells her story about the character she played on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ who eventually became an iconic character. The backstage storytelling reveals how a very noisy scene production at a live Dodger game gave a cover to a man wrongfully accused of murder.
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A hilarious piece of past has surfaced among the Lena Waithe’s ‘Legacy Talk’ archives, and it is a clip that can be labeled much more than just an enjoyable memory from Hollywood. It’s a crazy case where the humor and the justice system exchanged roles in the most unexpected manner. The video features Kym Whitley going way back and guiding us through her appearance in the now famous ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ episode where she was, with the assistance of the script, giving services of a prostitute right in front of Larry David at Dodger Stadium. And she dropped an unbelievable story on us.
Kym Whitley recounts the shooting of a scene at a packed and vibrant Dodger game where they had dozens of extras around them. The noise and the action were very real. At one point, someone in the audience told her to relax, and the sound level was such that she could not even say her being an actor was the reason she was behaving that way. But what happened next was quite a surprise indeed, during the sound post-processing stage, Kym Whitley was told by Larry David that they had starved the process too much this time. His reason? “There is a murder case where the suspect is the guy.”
In Whitley’s narrating, the man was at that game with his daughter, but the police didn’t believe him. This continued until ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ was aired. One of the production assistants had, by accident, allowed the man to walk through the shot, and he was seen moving to his place. The video of him was what he needed to get the case thrown out. “They saved the guy’s life,” Whitley remarks, still sounding incredulous about the part luck played in it. The entire interview is so humorous and so emotional at the same time with Kym Whitley teasing about the inconvenience her very tight costume caused and admitting she fell for Larry David three times during the shoot. “I wanna kiss him on the mouth,” she jokes while raving that he is no less than a gangster, and that he has got really authentic.
The audience response to this chapter of history where the court meets Hollywood was instant. People were shocked by the twist that saved a life. “This episode has so many levels of goodness, but especially getting that wrongfully accused guy off of the murder charges,” one viewer commented as if expressing the most common feeling. Another user suggested: “Only episode I know of that saved a dude’s life, LOL.” He was emphasizing the episode’s absolutely unique legacy.
The story even made some bold seekers of truth and knowledge. “There is a documentary about it,” one internet user stated, while another said, “Watched that doc on Netflix crazy they were filming,” thus confirming the previous statement. For some the story had the effect of a reminder about the ever-present charm of Kym Whitley and the sitcom’s creativity. A fan’s comment was: “Kym Whitley is our good girlfriend in our head! So sweet!” At the same time, another applauded the casual yet insightful tone of the interview: “These are such great interviews… this is like sitting down and having a conversation.”
The video not only acted as an impactful true-crime side story but also revealed Whitley’s talent in such a way that it turned into an unassailable appreciation post. Lena Waithe’s original write-up praised Whitley’s “quiet masterclass” in comedy, and called attention to the fact that she does not repel the chaos that Larry David introduces but rather she builds up through it. The comment section was full of the actress’ supporters and people agreeing with the original comment about the enduring humor of the episode. “Episode still super funny,” a fan wrote while many referred to it as one of their all-time favorites.
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This strange and beautiful reminder that sometimes art and reality come so close to each other in unexpected and un-dreamt-of ways, appears in the form of a comedienne in a super tight and gruesome costume, a grouchy legend trying and failing to drive his own car, and a random spectator walking to his seat—all these characters gave birth to an iconic television moment that actually, changed a life. The episode was already a classic for its humor. Now it is also a classic for so much more. The story proves that the most unbelievable scenarios sometimes do not spawn from writer’s room
This story originally appeared on Celebrityinsider
