Andrew Santino Initially Auditioned For A Much Different Curb Your Enthusiasm Role – Looper

According to Andrew Santino, Larry David ended up recasting him away from the role he auditioned for because he wanted someone who looked stereotypically German. “He was like, ‘He doesn’t look Aryan. Dude, he has red hair,'” Santino said, paraphrasing David. “‘We want a guy that looks like a Hitler boy.'”

That role ultimately went to Alan Tudyk, whose other work includes voicing the droid K-2SO in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and The Joker on “Harley Quinn.” In addition to owning a dog named Adolf, Tudyk’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” character is revealed to have trained it to respond to the Nazi salute. Unfortunately for the trumped-up TV version of David, he’s also a remarkable inventor, able to design a coffee cup that keeps coffee hot for extended periods.

While Santino was a bit miffed at losing the role to Tudyk, David still wanted him to guest on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” As Santino told it, the casting director gave him the sheets for the urinal engineer he ended up playing and told him to come back when he was ready to read for the part. “I said, ‘No, just give me three minutes to read this and I’ll come back,'” Santino explained, saying he returned several minutes later for the follow-up audition. “And then I improved with Larry and I made him break like three times,” Santino said.