![Today, we remember Leslie Nielsen. Here he is, in a 1993 interview on Fresh Air, talking about the film that catapulted him into comedy: “When I read the [Airplane!] script I knew exactly what they were after. It was the greatest break of my life, in a sense, that I ended up working with people who spotted me for being the closet comedian that I was.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcno30Z8Eb1qd9dz2o1_500.jpg "Today, we remember Leslie Nielsen. Here he is, in a 1993 interview on Fresh Air, talking about the film that catapulted him into comedy: “When I read the [Airplane!] script I knew exactly what they were after. It was the greatest break of my life, in a sense, that I ended up working with people who spotted me for being the closet comedian that I was.”")
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Today, we remember Leslie Nielsen. Here he is, in a 1993 interview on Fresh Air, talking about the film that catapulted him into comedy: “When I read the [Airplane!] script I knew exactly what they were after. It was the greatest break of my life, in a sense, that I ended up working with people who spotted me for being the closet comedian that I was.”
