Of all the odious things the “Seinfeld” characters have done, nothing comes close to George inadvertently killing his fiancée, Susan, with his parsimony, and feeling pretty good about it. Legend has long had it that Heidi Swedberg’s character, Susan, was killed off because Jason Alexander found her to be insufferable. Indeed, the actor contributed heavily to this rumor by trashing Swedberg in the press. In 2015, he told “The Howard Stern Show,” “I couldn’t figure out how to play off of her. Her instincts for doing a scene, where the comedy was, and mine were always misfiring.” He explained that, together, they could never make a scene work to his liking, apparently due to a palpable lack of chemistry. Then, one day, a co-star came up with a solution for the character. “Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] actually said, ‘Don’t you want to just kill her?'” Alexander recalled. “And Larry [David] went, ‘Ka-bang!'”
On Twitter, the actor later said that he felt terrible about his remarks and admitted that he regretted the way he treated Swedberg. “In telling this story, it sounds like we are putting a heavy burden on Heidi,” he wrote. “I, personally, am not … She was generous and gracious and I am so mad at myself for retelling this story in any way that would diminish her.” He blamed his own insecurities as an actor on his failure to develop chemistry with Swedberg. “To Heidi, I personally apologize. You are a sweetheart,” he added.
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