Note: The story below contains spoilers for Season 12, Episode 3 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
On Sunday's episode of “Contain Your Enthusiasm,” titled “Vertical Drop, Horizontal Drag,” Larry David is shown entering a golf course, where he looks at a class that is swinging a little better.
The award was given to Troy Kotsurum as he received the biggest honor for his Oscar-winning supporting role in “Coda” on Apple TV+. During the rest of the episode, Kotsur and David's rivalry intensifies when he is hit by one of Larry's golf balls and later hits him with a custom cake for one week.
To maintain a spontaneous narrative, Curb Your Enthusiasm was filmed without a camera. Cast members receive dinner sketches so they can improvise as they go. The actor talked about how his previous experience in improv helped make David's character break down something that wasn't included in the final version of the episode.
“I take a picture and use a golf club under my leg to simulate my penis and say ‘suck it.’ “Larry was passing out and dead when he was done,” Kotsur told TheWrap. “I know Larry is a professional and his improvisation muscles are very strong. I wanted to see if it was possible to ditch the character and then I did and I thought, “Sim!” “
Kotsur said he had no hesitation in being invited to the show after David ea HBO contacted his employer.
“I'm so happy to have won an Oscar and to have my people's eyes. He said, 'Acho, it was like you found me.'” Of course, it was an honor to work with Larry David. Sou um great fà delle And I've watched all of his great comedies over the past couple of years. I'm so thrilled to be one of the many celebrities who have been particularly involved throughout the 20 years of “Curb” and I'm so honored to be able to be on it for this past season. Posso riscar isso da minha Wish List.
He added that he was “very happy” to have the opportunity to make several films that were taken to provide diverse performances and show that southern actors can jump in with humor and not be “a victim or someone who suffers from grief.”
“In general, I'm always looking for a job that changes perspectives, something people would never think about,” Kotsur said. “It's very good for me, it's not just having a wide range and having so many different experiences as an actor and acting in so many different places like I did.”
Now he has a new memory to share with his wife, Dean Bray, who appeared in the 2007 film Curb.
“It was a woman having a puppy-mouse seizure, and her voice was called desu,” he said. “It is a great honor to be here at Curb.”
Starring alongside David in Season 12 are Jeff Garlin (The Goldbergs), Susie Iseman (Broad City), Cheryl Hines (Suburgatory), J.P. Smoove (Mapleworth Murders), and Richard Lewis (Anything But Love). “).), Ted Danson (“The Good Place”), Vince Vaughn (“Wedding Crashers”) and Tracey Ullman (“Tracey Ullman's Show”).
In addition to David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is executive produced by Garlin and Jeff Schaffer, with Laura Streicher and Jennifer Corey serving as co-executive producers.
New episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” air every Sunday on HBO and Max.