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Before he scored four Emmy awards <\/a>playing a prosecutor on “Night Court,” John Larroquette was paid in pot for voiceover work on a classic horror movie.<\/p>\n

After years of internet speculation, Larroquette confirmed he hit a high note from what he assumed to be gig work for a friend in the ’70s.<\/p>\n

“Totally true,” Larroquette told “Parade” when asked about the long-standing rumor director Tobe Hooper compensated John with weed for narrating the prologue to “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“He gave me some marijuana or a matchbox or whatever you called it in those days,” he said. “I walked out of the [recording] studio and patted him on the back side and said, \u2018Good luck to you!\u2019”<\/p>\n

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His relationship with Hooper went back to 1969 when he was working as a bartender in Colorado. John said he “wasn\u2019t sure what I wanted to do with my life,” but had struck up a friendship with the late director<\/a> who was working on a project in town.<\/p>\n

A few years later, Larroquette was pursuing his own acting dreams in Los Angeles<\/a> when Hooper looked him up.<\/p>\n

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“Tobe heard I was in town and asked for an hour of my time to narrate something for this movie he just did,” he recalled. “I said \u2018Fine!\u2019 It was a favor.”<\/p>\n

At the time, the thriller featuring a mask-wearing cannibal named Leatherface<\/a> who preys on a group of hippies, was grossly low-budget. Little did he know that the movie would become a horror classic and spawn an entire series of slasher films.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You do something for free in the 1970s and get a little money in the \u201890s,” he said before adding, “It\u2019s certainly the one credit that\u2019s stuck strongly to my resume.”<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, Larroquette has yet to see any of the movies in the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” franchise.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not a big horror movie fan,” he said.<\/p>\n

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He is, however, returning to the courtroom to play Dan Fielding in an updated version of “Night Court.”<\/a> The first episode of the award-winning program premiered in 1984 and ran until 1992.<\/p>\n

Larroquette earned four consecutive Emmys from 1985-88, and then asked not to be considered for an Emmy in 1989.<\/p>\n

“I’m now 75, not the 35-year-old who started\u00a0playing that character. I can’t do the\u00a0physical comedy I used to do,” Larroquette told USA Today of his character’s evolution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Hopefully, with wit and intellect, we have found other ways for him to be funny, not\u00a0just the clown that he was in the \u201980s. But it’s a new world.”<\/p>\n

Harry Anderson<\/a>, who played Judge Harry T. Stone, died in 2018, and Markie Post, who portrayed public defender Christine Sullivan, passed away in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Larroquette said it was “emotional” at times being back on set of the legal sitcom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It was like going back to your old school\u00a0but with more emotions because the main reasons the show was so successful and such a pleasure to do had passed,” he said. “As defense attorney, Dan now sits in the chair that Christine Sullivan sat in for years. So I often pay silent tribute to Markie.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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