Curb Your Enthusiasm hosts Seinfeld reunion

The stars of the Nineties cult television comedy Seinfeld - comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his fellow stars Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards - have spoken for the first time about their reunion. The gang reunite in the new series of Curb Your Enthusiam, starring Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, which starts in the United States on September 20.
 
Eleven years since the hugely popular NBC sitcom finished, David, who dreamt up the classic nine-season show with Seinfeld, decided last spring that it was time for a reunion. Jerry Seinfeld and the rest of the cast agreed to get together as part of a storyline for Curb, in which David plays an ultra-curmudgeonly version of himself.
 
In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, which touts the reunion as "spectacular", David is cagey about the plot, revealing only that his character organises a Seinfeld reunion as a ruse to get his estranged wife Cheryl back. Larry recruits the cast, plans a one-off reunion episode and tapes the show - some of which is shown in his sitcom. Louis-Dreyfus, who played Elaine in Seinfeld and now has her own show, The New Adventures of Old Christine, describes it as an "anti-reunion reunion".
 
Meanwhile the cast members found it surprisingly simple to slip back into their old characters, with the help of old props and the original sets for Jerry's apartment and Monk's coffee shop, which the Curb Your Enthusiasm producers found in a warehouse.
 
Jason Alexander, who played the neurotic George, said: "Just before we shot that [first] scene, I said to Jerry and Julia, 'I don't know if I can be George. I haven't tried him on in a while." Then he added: "It was freaky how it just came right back out."
 
Michael Richards, who played Kramer, simply donned his character's old shoes, which he had kept. "Once I got those shoes on, and I'm standing behind the door of Jerry's apartment, I was ready."
 
Jerry Seinfeld admits the idea of working with Larry David again was "too overwhelmingly appealing" to turn down. But it will be the last outing for Seinfeld and friends, he adds. "As far as I'm concerned, we did do it [a reunion], and in a better way than I ever imagined," says Seinfeld. "This exceeded my expectations, so there's no chance I would revisit it now."
 
The Seinfeld stars are not the only famous actors to make cameo appearances on the latest series of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Hollywood stars Meg Ryan, Elisabeth Shue and Christian Slater are all set to appear, as well as Curb regulars Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Richard Lewis. Kill Bill star Vivica A Fox, who played Larry's lodger-turned-lover Loretta Black, is reportedly set to appear in at least two episodes. ·