Leah Remini Shares Her One Caveat for A ‘King of Queens’ Reboot
Nearly two decades after The King of Queens’ final episode hit the airwaves back in 2007, Leah Remini just might be up for another round in New York City’s most regal borough — so long as one condition is met.
The sitcom star recently revealed that while “of course” she “would consider” reviving her iconic CBS series during a recent sit-down with Us Weekly, there’s a caveat to her reprising the role of Carrie Heffernan. The late Jerry Stiller, who played her on-screen father Arthur Spooner, would somehow need to be added into the mix.
“It would be hard to do a show like that without Jerry Stiller,” she said of her TV dad, who ed away at the age of 92 back in 2020. “They’d have to think of something to represent him.”
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Stiller’s undeniable comedy chops isn’t the only factor that would make his (hopefully half-priced) shoes particularly tough to fill on a potential King of Queens revival. Back in 2005, the actor offered a surprisingly vague “estimation” of how he viewed Spooner, describing him as a “meshugana” (“crazy” in Yiddish) man who “floats” through life.
“It’s a character that has no definition,” Stiller explained, noting that not even he, as Spooner’s portrayer, knew whether the World War II vet was a “union man or a capitalist.”
“He lives in a basement, he lives underwater, the kind of guy who thinks maybe life went his way, they would have a national holiday about him,” he said of Spooner.
The jury’s still out on whether we’ll ever get a three-day weekend for Arthur Spooner Day — a holiday best celebrated by telling your son-in-law that gravity will someday come for all of us — but Stiller absolutely deserves a whole lot more than just one day in the sun.
