Memories From the Set: Dan Bucatinsky on "Curb Your Enthusiasm"


Bucatinsky's father was very ill in New York — and Bucatinsky wasn't feeling great, himself — when it came time to shoot Larry David's highly improvised HBO comedy.

"I always remember that Curb as one of the most creatively fun and exciting experiences, but privately one of the most difficult. Because I was a nervous wreck to improvise with Larry David, but I was also racing home to see my dad [afterward], and I was sick as a dog."



But the scene, in which Bucatinsky plays an annoying man speaking loudly on a cell phone at a restaurant, later became his golden ticket to Seattle Grace.

"When I got offered the part on Grey’s Anatomy, I couldn’t come in to read for Shonda Rhimes, because I was going to be out of town. So they sent her that Curb Your Enthusiasm clip, and they hired me off of that," he says.

"I saw Larry David in a restaurant recently and I said, 'You know, every single thing that’s happened to me in my career in the last five years is oddly because of you,' and he was like, 'I love to hear that.'"

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