

When we spoke in November, before vaccines, your hope was to make it through production without any main actors testing positive and forcing a 14-day shutdown. Speaking with THR, the executive producer talks about getting David on board to film during a pandemic, teases the storylines and guest stars that have him feeling excited, and leaves the door wide open for more Curb after this 10-episode season wraps. “Here’s the thing: Whether people are vaccinated or unvaccinated, have COVID or don’t have COVID, they’re still selfish and terrible a lot of the time.” The things that Larry deals with, while they might be microscopic and petty, are still timeless and universal,” says Schaffer, who is adept at explaining the Curb way. “We chose to aim the show’s ship at where we usually do, which is the wish-fulfillment of the selfish and the self-righteous. So, in Curb‘s alternate reality, the pandemic happened, but now it’s in the rearview mirror - and it didn’t change Larry one bit. The show’s time period is right now, “if everyone had the brains to get vaccinated,” he says.
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TV’s Larry David, as Schaffer explains, is back in full form in a post-COVID world. 24 premiere, Curb returned with an 11th season that did not include masks or social distancing.

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That “meh” reaction is exactly what viewers of the long-running, Emmy-winning comedy might expect from its star and creator, who plays a fictional version of himself on Curb. Larry David Returns to Hating People in 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Season 11 Trailer I want to see your faces!’ Everyone took off their mask for a second and he looked around and went, ‘All right, put ‘em back on.'” “We were going to shoot the scene outside - everyone had been vaccinated by that point - and the whole crew was there. “The thing that was often annoying is that you can’t see anyone on the crew’s faces,” says executive producer Jeff Schaffer, recalling to The Hollywood Reporter an anecdote from that final day. It was May of 2021 and because production had begun in November of 2020, even prior to COVID-19 vaccines becoming available, everyone had been wearing masks (and many, face shields) for months. On the last day of filming on the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David had a request.
