Larry David Make America Great Again Hat

C urb Your Enthusiasm boss Jeff Schaffer has ofttimes said, "Documenting the missteps and social mistakes of the Westside of Los Angeles is an evergreen concern," and he maintains that every bit he and star Larry David plot out an 11th flavor of the HBO comedy. But before cameras roll — "Nosotros're hoping to shoot late autumn, but we'll see," he says — Schaffer reflects on flavour 10, which has earned the testify's ninth Emmy nomination for best one-act series.

Take me back to the decision to do a 10th flavour, which, past Adjourn standards, was made speedily.

Usually the last episode of the season is the last episode of Curb at that place will ever be. This was the offset time it went differently. We were sitting in the edit room, finishing upward the fatwa episode of season nine, and we're always talking about ideas, simply I didn't think anything was going to happen right away. Then [Larry] turned to me, this is on a Fri, we're basically done, and he goes, "All right, well, I'll meet you on Mon." And I'm like, "Expect, you hateful for another flavour?" He's similar, "Yeah."

What fabricated information technology different, you think?

There are two things that Larry really enjoys: doing the show and playing golf. And you can just play and then much golf. (Laughs.)

I of the more indelible images of flavour x is Larry in the MAGA hat. How did that come up to be, and how did that image not leak?

We were so worried considering we were shooting on San Vicente in Brentwood, and and so on Pico and in this sushi restaurant filled with extras. Larry stood upwards and basically said to the extras: "We want to keep this a secret, so don't be a spoiler. Nobody likes a spoiler." And they kept the hugger-mugger, which was fantastic. I mean, it was such a perfect Larry story, and I just kept going, "Oh delight, I hope no photos come out." It'due south the same reason Larry doesn't want there to even exist a teaser for the show on the backend of the previous episode. Information technology's similar, sometimes you go to bed and you're fine, and and so you wake upwardly the next 24-hour interval and yous have a pimple, and you're like, "Where did that come from?" That's what Larry wants the show to be. He wants Adjourn to be a pimple on your face up that just appeared and you don't know anything most information technology or where it came from, just it'southward there.

It is so perfectly Larry …

Aye, merely people were like, "Oh, you guys got so much more political this year," and that's not really it. We're creatures of our surround. And TV Larry David lives in the real world, and these bug were so big that it seemed weird to not do them — nosotros simply had to do them in a Curb way. So you practise the #MeToo movement, but y'all do it with side-sitting and existence afraid to give your assistant the Heimlich because you lot don't know where to touch. And yous're going to deal with Trump, but you do it through the optics of having it be a boon to a misanthrope.

Information technology prompted a tweet from the president. Is that considered a victory?

It's so funny — when we were shooting it, someone on set was like, "When this comes out, he'due south definitely going to tweet near this." And I said, "No, that's crazy." And then he did, and he pinned information technology at the pinnacle of his feed, and it just stayed up there. This guy is so stupid, he doesn't realize we're making fun of him. Larry and I talked about information technology, like, is there a response we do? But we decided to merely let that orange-haired baby sit in his own messy diaper.

You tackled the #MeToo movement, with Jeff Garlin existence mistaken for Harvey Weinstein. Where did that idea come from, and how bad-mannered is that ask to Jeff Garlin?

When the Harvey news broke, I walked into the office and said to Larry, "How before long before Hallmark asks Jeff Garlin to play Harvey in some Hallmark pic?" And we laughed about it, and so I said, "Expect, why requite this to Hallmark? Nosotros should do it." So we called Jeff, and Jeff is such a sport. Nosotros were way more nervous to call Ted Danson to say that he was getting divorced from Mary [Steenburgen on the show]. Nosotros were manner more nervous to call Lin-Manuel Miranda to see if he'd practice [an arc] because we had no plan B.

You had a lot of smashing cameos this flavour, peculiarly with the spite stores. Any proficient stories to share, whether it fabricated information technology to air or non?

We're very lucky in that there are a lot of neat people who would love to be on Curb. We hear it all the time; someone'southward managing director, amanuensis or fifty-fifty a friend will say, "Oh, they'd just come and hold a pencil on Curb." And I'm similar, "No one wants to run into this big star agree a pencil." It's all story-dependent. There are people who we seek out every bit we're writing, like Isla Fisher or Fred Armisen, and then at that place are people nosotros're completely surprised by, like Clive Owen. With Sean Penn, we kept saying, "We desire someone like Sean Penn [to open up a spite store that sells birds]," and we finally said, "Why don't we just ask Sean Penn?" Luckily, he's a huge fan of Larry'southward, and he was amazing. In that location was a actually funny vignette that we couldn't fit for fourth dimension where a client came into Sean's store and was request all these questions about what kind of bird she should get and this and that, and then she says, "Now, will information technology affair if I have a cat?" Sean just stares at her and says, "Get the fuck out." Information technology'due south then skilful. I really wish Larry would allow usa to put some of the deleted scenes in [later].

Why doesn't he?

Nosotros get into this argument all the time. He says, "Eh, if information technology wasn't in the testify, people don't want to encounter it." I say that's exactly why they do.

This jump, you kept telling reporters yous were flirting with a season 11. What got yous to commit?

It's e'er tricky in those interviews because commonly we are working on a new flavor, but I'd never want to say that because Larry doesn't want to always feel similar he has to practice it. So we e'er write most 7 or eight shows earlier we actually tell anybody that we're doing the season, and and then people are similar, "Hey, when do y'all showtime?" And we're similar, "Nosotros finished."

You are now writing for a very different world. How will COVID-xix impact the stories you tell?

It's been a tricky balance because we're in the real world and the pandemic happened, only we too can't exercise jokes correct now that are so timely that in a year they look out of touch. By the same token, if you know you're not coming out for a year, you also don't desire to be the last one to the dinner. And then, you have to do it with Adjourn twists.

You shoot a lot on location. How are y'all going to do that?

I know, like, who's going to let us into their house? Just think about what a location scout does: They knock on your door and say, "Hi, person I don't know, hither are 10 strangers, we're going to come up into your house and touch on everything. But hither's the proficient news: If we really like your place, nosotros're going to come back with 90 people and be here for two days." (Laughs.) The other thing I think virtually is with all the social distancing, we'll have to basically purchase another location side by side door for the crew — our location budgets are going to go through the roof.

Interview edited for length and clarity.

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And the Odds Are…

Is a twenty-year-onetime series going to win one of the night's biggest races subsequently going near a decade since its last Television set University nod — i that, might we add, was for editing? The answer is near definitely non. Curb Your Enthusiasm, like a pair of curmudgeonly jeans its creators and audience decline to surrender on, is just along for the ride. Information technology remains a crowd-pleaser, merely it has neither the heat nor the relevance to make a compelling case for why it should win best comedy. Sure, information technology could ever sneak a win based on the merits of its pedigree, or its years of contribution to the genre, but such a surprise seems more likely to come up for a final flavor. And this show isn't going anywhere just nevertheless. — MICHAEL O'CONNELL

This story first appeared in an Baronial stand up-solitary issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.

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