”As a kid, I was fascinated by film noir. My mother was a movie buff and we’d watch old films together on TV. She could identify all the obscure character actors,” Wayne Knight shared back in 2020.
Knight fought a lot to reach his career. He started to work as a private investigator before he became a star in the industry. ”Well, they like hiring actors. Because they’re usually intelligent, conversant, they can play different parts, and they have no scruples.”
”My nom de guerre was Bill Monty. Which was my father’s first name and my mother’s maiden name. So if anytime anyone said, “Who are you?” you wouldn’t forget,” Wayne shared.
From 80s to 90s, Wayne had appeared in Dirty Dancing, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, and Basic Instinct.
After Basic Instinct, Wayne landed a role in Spielberg’s classic, Jurassic Park. He had an iconic scene in the movie. His character was trying to steal dinosaur embryos, and then a Dilophosaurus killed him.
”I was as fat a humanly possible. I was soaking wet during most of it, and people were shooting me in the face with dyed K-Y jelly,” Wayne shared about the scene.
”And I was falling down waterfall, and I’m falling down and I ripped my leg open. But the results of that were quite good.”
Wayne is also known from his role in Seinfield, as Jerry.
”He’s the guy who’s always trying to slip in the door and nobody wants him to come in,” Knight continued.
In a podcast of Jason Alexander, Wayne talked about the things he experienced during the show.
“The vibe is that everybody was thrilled to be there. And they understood the nature of this beast. And Jerry [Seinfeld] was welcoming and very friendly. Ah, Larry [David] was scary as hell. Because he was too relaxed seeming. And you couldn’t [read him]. Like, how could somebody so laconic and loose be so scary? I think that… I enjoyed being on the show because every time you started a scene, it delivered. You just had to not be in the way of it. Find the joke. Hit the joke. The joke is there,” Wayne Knight said.
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