Reflecting 25 years after the ‘Home Improvement’ finale, the actor says there’s a reason the sitcom that co-starred Tim Allen isn’t part of the 90s nostalgia wave: ‘It’s about his politics.’
The 'Home Improvement' pilot was in crisis. As rehearsals got underway on the would-be ABC sitcom in 1991, it became apparent that the central tension between Tim Allen and Frances Fisher, who had been cast as Jill Taylor, the wife of Allen's character, Tim Taylor, was all wrong. The show had been built around 37-year-old Allen’s particular brand of machismo stand-up comedy and, opposite his grunts and jabs, Fisher's comebacks were sounding more like pleas.
'That just annoyed everybody in the academy, so I think there was some backlash to that.' And while Finestra didn't recall any palpable disappointment from Allen over his Emmy snubs, Richardson felt that there was concern from others that the imbalance of recognition might upset her co-star. 'I think everybody was always afraid of making him feel bad,” she said.
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