Meanwhile, Ray noted that Doris—who died in 2016 at age 90—also spent time “taking acting classes,” to which Patricia added, “and directing plays.”
As for Peter, according to Ray, his onscreen dad—who died in 2006 at age 71—was “pretty much the opposite” and more of “a kind of Renaissance man.”
One detail they can all agree on? There won’t be a reboot of Everybody Loves Raymond.
“We’re never gonna do one, because we’re missing three cast members, three family members,” Ray explained. “So we would never try to do the show without them.”
Series creator Phil Rosenthal agreed that a reboot wouldn’t be the same, adding that the show continues to live on in reruns.
“We have too much respect for the show itself and for the beautiful audience,” he noted, “to keep it the way it is.”
After all, the original Everybody Loves Raymond also serves as a tribute to the entire cast.
“Ninety percent of everything you saw on the show happened to me, or to Ray, or to one of the other writers,” Phil said. “What I didn’t realize, and what I learned from us doing that [was], ‘Oh, wait, your parents are all crazy too.'”
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