When "Frasier" came to an end in 2004, it wasn't easy for Jane Leeves to say goodbye. "It took us all a long time to get over the fact that the show had ended," she later told the Daily Mail. "It was a decade of some of the most fantastic experiences of my life, and there were times I'd wake up crying that it was all over."
It's hard to imagine, then, that Leeves almost didn't get to play Daphne over the life of the show. As the cast confirmed to Vanity Fair, NBC wanted Leeves to play Daphne, but the star of the show, Kelsey Grammer, wasn't so sure. "I was nervous about a British-accented housekeeper turning us into a dreadful 'Nanny and the Professor.' So, I asked to read with her," he recalled. Aafter just one minute of reading with Leeves, though, Grammer was sold.
As for Leeves, she was sold right away. "When I read the pilot for this it wasn't really a tough choice at all," Leeves revealed in a 1995 interview, explaining that she gave up a recurring role on "Murphy Brown" for the new series.
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