Lee Majors Previews "Dallas" Arc, Remembers Neighbor Larry Hagman
by Matt Webb Mitovich
3/25/13
Lee Majors kicks off a three-episode arc on "
Dallas" as Ken Richards, an old, pre-J.R. flame of Sue Ellen’s.
“
She calls him out of the blue for some business help — and she does mention that she’d been wanting to call me for quite a while, but needed a reason to pick up the phone,” Majors previews.
As for whether their reunion will be strictly business, “
Sue Ellen hints at some romanticism, but I don’t know which way it’s going.”
Regardless, could this reconnect with an old friend cure what’s been ailing the grande dame, who tumbled off the wagon when J.R. passed?
“
She is drinking heavily. Every scene I had with her, she had just finished poured some vodka in her Coca-Cola,” Majors confirms. “
So she is still having that problem. But that’s about all I can tell ya!”
Though this "
Dallas" stint marked the first time Majors had met Gray (“
We clicked right away,” he reports, “
because we work the same way”), it’s not his first brush with Southfork royalty.
“
Larry Hagman lived a few houses down from me in Malibu, so I’d see him on the weekends,” he recalls. “
He would dress in funny outfits, like as a monk or something, and he wouldn’t talk on Sundays — because one time he lost his voice and his doctor told him to take one day and don’t talk. We thought it was silly, but we would drink and have a good time, and at least we didn’t have to listen to him!” he jokes.
Although Majors’ arc stops short of the Season 2 finale (airing April 15), “
It’s wide open,” he says, for Ken to resurface during any possible Season 3.
http://tvline.com/2013/03/25/dallas-...ors-sue-ellen/