Now the 51 year old actor is treading the boards in London's West End for the play 'Le Bette' the Molière-style comedy written in rhyming couplets. Since 2004, when Frasier came to an end, he's mainly been working in theatre in New York, winning a Tony award for his performance in the Broadway musical Curtains and appearing in Python spoof Spamalot - ‘That was absolute bliss,’ he says heartfully in an interview with London's Metro freepaper. . ‘I was a huge fan of Monty Python when I was in high school. As broad and absurd as their situations are, I was always drawn to the seriousness with which they attacked their material.’
Despite or perhaps because of his mega fame as Niles, David is, as perhaps you might have guessed a very private man, he married his partner of 25 years in back in 2008 in California, two weeks later they voted against same sex marriages and he's still a tad angry ‘As a person who is least happy calling attention to themselves, to have to be suddenly very public about their life, and who felt very angry about the government interfering, was very painful. I’d love to just shut up about gay rights but so many gay men are not able to live their lives in the same meaningful way as other people.’
An actor unhappy about getting attention? Surely a contradiction.
‘Actually, most actors are the same. You only show off on stage because that’s the place where you aren’t you. Acting gives you permission to do stuff you’ve never done before.’
Interview in The Metro.
La Bête opens tonight at London’s Comedy Theatre.
Watch a classic snippet of Frasier and Niles at a gay bar.
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