"I'll be real honest. I had some reluctance when I was offered [the part]," Larroquette, 77, begins while exclusively chatting with Parade about his career, returning to Night Court and more. "Because as I say, Dan has been famous since he was a fetus and meeting a young man who's been that famous, sometimes it can go in several directions. But Daniel Radcliffe is the most of a gentleman I've ever met in my life."
He continues, "He's educated, funny, sincere, honest, charitable, loves everybody, knows everybody's name. For that year that I spent with him on Broadway, it was [a] spectacular time to have met him and know him, and we still occasionally stay in touch. He's a great guy."
"Radcliffe and I stay in touch," he says. "There's like four of us. We call [ourselves] the Alley Boys. We used to sneak out of the theater at intermission and smoke cigarettes and have a talk. And I had these Zippo lighters made and engraved 'The Alley Boys 2011.' So, four of us in the cast used to just hang out a lot together."
John Larroquette and Daniel Radcliffe pose backstage at the hit play "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" on Broadway at The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on April 27, 2012 in New York City.Bruce Glikas/Getty Images
"At first, it was daunting. It was bittersweet," he recalls. "It took me a long time to say yes. But walking back on the set that I had spent nearly a decade of my life in, in the '80s, felt like a ghost town, literally, because so many of the cast members had died, before we ever did the reboot."
He continues, "So, it was tough for me to remember it was great because it changed all of our lives. That show was sort of a launching pad for all of our careers. It was very popular and successful. And to see it, without those people in it, was strange at first, but I've obviously grown to love the new people that are there as well."
(l-r) Melissa Rauch as Abby Stone, John Larroquette as Dan FieldingNBC/Getty Images
"Hopefully because it's funny," he says. "I mean, I don't see any other reason to define it in any other terms. If it's funny, it should be successful. And the idea that if you could sit down and for 20 minutes have laughs that aren't dependent on what's happening in the world, we're never political, it's never current,"
New episodes of Night Court air on Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. ET on NBC and can be streamed on Peacock the following day. The first two seasons of Night Court can also be streamed on Peacock.
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