David Hyde Pierce on food for the soul

I’m a big fan of Frasier, so it’s intriguing to see the hugely-talented David Hyde Pierce (Niles) returning to TV playing husband to the chef Julia Child. This recent Guardian interview is a fascinating glimpse into a very private but by all accounts enormously warm and generous man.

I especially enjoyed this digression about the importance of art in the midst of crisis:

“[Hyde-Pierce] becomes especially animated about a cellist he saw playing Bach on the streets of Ukraine. ‘There’s a reason. There’s a reason Yo-Yo Ma played Bach cello suites in the midst of the pandemic. The sparest, most elemental kind of music that you wouldn’t think of as popular entertainment – because it wasn’t, it was lifeblood.’”

Read the whole thing. Or just watch Niles channeling Buster Keaton below.