For Clint Howard, filming a visitor spot on Seinfeld felt like “kismet” – and that is as a result of he shot the episode on a day when the sequence forged discovered their luck had modified.
Clint recounted his look on the present — which got here throughout a 1992 episode — in a panel dialogue alongside his brother Ron Howard and niece Bryce Dallas Howard at MegaCon in Orlando in February
“It was superior and the crew was superior,” Clint, 65, mentioned of his temporary stint on the present.
Clint performed the function of Tobias Lehigh Nagy, who’s arrested for breaking right into a automotive and positioned in a police automotive with Jerry and George as they attempt to resolve an accusation towards their pal Kramer, who has mistakenly been accused of being a serial killer. Later within the episode, it’s revealed that Tobias is definitely the serial killer, although at this level Jerry and George have unwittingly allowed him to flee from the squad automotive.
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“I had a bit of slight benefit, and that is simply pure coincidence — kismet,” Clint mentioned of filming the season 3 episode. “The day that I did ‘The Smog Strangler’ [the episode’s title] — the in the future that I labored on Seinfeld — it was the day after they discovered, it was introduced that Seinfeld had gotten picked up for an additional season.”
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He continued: “We had been taking pictures open air, usually it is an indoor present. it was about 75 levels in February in Los Angeles, it was a stupendous day. The growth man had his shirt off. And all people was speaking about what sort of automotive they had been going to purchase. So I caught the group on day and creatively, they had been all superior.”
Like his brother Ron, Clint started his appearing profession at age 2, when he joined the forged of The Andy Griffith Present for a handful of episodes. Ron, his older brother, was already starring on the sequence on the time.
Clint has since amassed greater than 200 credit in movies like Apollo 13 and exhibits together with Arrested Growth.
In 2022, Clint and Ron revealed a memoir titled The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Household, which was a New York Occasions bestseller.
