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Actor turned down 'A Few Good Men' role
4 Oct
Summary
- Krause once worked with Aaron Sorkin as a bartender.
- He regretfully declined a role in 'A Few Good Men'.
- They later collaborated on the series 'Sports Night'.
Actor Peter Krause shared a significant professional regret from his past.
In his 20s, Krause worked as a bartender at Broadway's Palace Theatre in the mid-1980s, where Aaron Sorkin was his bar manager. Sorkin invited Krause to participate in a reading of his play, but Krause declined due to his demanding schedule as an NYU drama student.
That play was 'A Few Good Men.' Krause later worked as a bartender when the play opened on Broadway in 1989 and was adapted into a film in 1992.
Years later, Sorkin offered Krause a role in the late 1990s series 'Sports Night,' which Krause accepted. He portrayed sports broadcaster Casey McCall and the show ran for two seasons from 1998 to 2000.
Krause remains good friends with Sorkin and has expressed a strong desire to work with him again, even discussing the possibility of revisiting 'Sports Night.' He believes Sorkin could reimagine the series in the context of modern sports and social media.
