In a 2022 interview with Entertainment Weekly, John Lithgow revealed that his fans remember him most from the ’90s NBC sitcom “3rd Rock from the Sun,” on which his played the screwball Dick Solomon, the leader of a group of four extraterrestrials posing as a family of humans in the fictional city of Rutherford, Ohio.
Even more than 20 years later, people on the street still ask him to do that popular alien salute.
“[3rd Rock from the Sun] exploded my career,” he said.
“It exploded everybody’s expectations of me.
Nobody had seen me do that nonsense before, except for if they happened to remember the three times that I hosted “Saturday Night Live” way back in the ’80s.” With the help of his co-stars Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lithgow snagged three Emmy Awards during the show’s six-season run.But the “Dexter” villain initially focused his career on theater and film.
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