From left: Carol Kane, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Tony Danza and Lucy Liu.Photo:Bruce Glikas/Getty Images
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Danny DeVitoandRhea Perlmanjust reunited in New York City alongside some of their formerTaxicastmates.
At the play’s premiere, DeVito and Perlman posed for photos with their friends and former castmates from the beloved 1978-1983 sitcom,Tony DanzaandCarol Kane,along withWhy Women Killactor Lucy Liu.
This is not the first time that alums from the show, which ran from 1978 to 1983, have gotten together recently. Two months ago, Danza, Kane,Judd HirschandChristopher Lloydreunited for lunchin N.Y.C. At the time, Danzatweeteda photograph of them sharing a table and wrote: “Love these people so much! #oldfriends #taxi.”
ThroughoutTaxi’s entire run, DeVito played the unlikeable Sunshine Cab Company dispatcher Louie De Palma. For that role, he was nominated for four Emmys, winning outstanding supporting actor in a comedy in 1981. In a recurring role onTaxi, Perlman played Louie’s girlfriend, Zena Sherman, before later landing onCheersas barmaid Carla Tortelli.
In a 2019PEOPLEinterview, DeVito talked about auditioning for his breakout role as Louie. “I wasn’t gonna do the show,” he admitted. “I was like, I don’t know about doing a pilot for a television show. I read it, I loved it.
“The only way to get (the role) was to really go in as Louie. And so I walked in with script in my hand, and I said to them, ‘One thing I want to know before we start: Who wrote this (expletive)?’ and I threw it on the table. I walked in the room, I took one tiny step in total terror, and then they all laughed their asses off. Then I sat in the chair, I couldn’t do anything wrong.”
DeVito and Perlman started dating in 1971 and married eleven years later; together they have three children, Lucy, Grace and Jacob. They first announced their separation in October 2012 after 30 years of marriage but later patched things up in March 2013. The two split again in March 2017.
Last month, during an appearance onJulia Louis-Dreyfus’Wiser Than Mepodcast, Perlman said thatthe two are still legally married despite the separation. “And we are still very good friends and we see each other a lot,” she added. “And our family is still the most important thing to both of us.”
She further explained: “It was very difficult at first. And there were a lot of reasons that we separated, which I’m not gonna go into. But it took time for us to come to this somehow pretty decent understanding andrelationship with each other.”
source: people.com
