“So, whenever I go to Yankee Stadium, which I do a lot, I go right near Gate 4 and I wave to her apartment,” Essman says. “I’m an Upper West Sider,” she says proudly.Įssman says that when she was a child, her grandmother lived across the street from where Yankee Stadium now stands, which was then a park near the previous stadium. She’s so committed and she has no vanity whatsoever.”Įssman and David met on the New York comedy club scene in the ‘80s and despite the show’s sunny California backdrop, Essman still lives in New York. I absolutely loved working with her,” Essman said. “I did a whole bunch of stuff with Tracey Ullman.

This season’s guest stars include Jon Hamm, Seth Rogen, Woody Harrelson, Lucy Liu and Tracey Ullman. “One of the reasons we do so many takes is because Larry starts giggling all the time.” “So sometimes we just go on really long and then they just cut it for what they need,” she says. That’s just the freedom that I get in this part, which is why I love it so much.”Įssman adds that the stars usually film a lot of different takes to give the editors options for whatever they may want to play up. How I get mad at him, what I say when I’m mad at him, none of that is written down. Larry doesn’t look her in the eye and she gets mad at him.’ That’s all. “The outline would say something like, ‘Susie gives a toast. “There’s a lot more to that scene later on than just the toasting,” Essman explains. Larry and Jeff then mock her until she calls her husband’s friend “rude.” Larry’s not impressed and is caught making faces, so Susie gets annoyed he won’t look her in the eye and toast. In one upcoming conflict, a host of people are gathered around a large dinner table as Susie makes “a toast to friendship.” “So we have a tremendous trust and respect for one another and that helps us to scream, yell and fight and act like silly creatures.” “Because it’s improvised, you really have to have a lot of trust and that has to be built in,” she says.

“It’s so much fun to have that freedom to have somebody who’s your really good friend and then just scream and yell and curse at them and there’s no meaning behind it,” she adds.Įssman, 66, also says that the actors have an added appreciation of each other thanks to their lines being improvised around a rough outline David writes.

Then they’ll say ‘cut’ and we’ll be like, ‘OK, where do you wanna go for lunch?’ They’ll say ‘action’ and we’ll be screaming and yelling and cursing. “One of the reasons why we can speak to each other in this despicable way,” Essman says, “is because we know that we’re playing. We’re very close.”ĭavid, creator and co-producer of “Curb,” stars as a version of himself on the Los Angeles-set show, while Essman plays foul-mouthed Susie Greene, wife of Larry’s agent Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin). I don’t think we’ve ever had a fight,” the Bronx-born Essman tells the Daily News.

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