Richard Kind: ‘People don’t understand – TV shows are just bookends for advertisements’

The inimitable American character actor speaks to Louis Chilton about returning to ‘The Producers’ on the West End, the cancelled TV show that could have reached greatness, and realising late in life he wants ‘respect’


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