Q&A WithCheryl Hines

Q&A With…Cheryl Hines

By Susan L. Hornik

Cheryl Hines

By Susan L. Hornik

The star of Curb Your Enthusiasm reveals how to deal with a grumpy mate and laugh more in a relationship (Larry David has taught her plenty!)

	As Larry David’s wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm, you are constantly having to put your husband in his place. What kinds of relationship skills have you learned from your character that you apply in your own life?
	I don’t think I’ve learned anything that I could use with my own husband. Larry is a different breed altogether!

	Do you have any advice for a woman who might be dating someone who is a bit of a curmudgeon?
	Pick and choose your battles. Because you can’t fight every one of them—or else you’ll go crazy!

	You are now executive producing a new series on Oxygen called Campus Ladies, about two single forty-something housewives who go back to college and are surrounded by dating prospects half their age. Have you ever dated a younger man?
	I have. It wasn’t like he was twenty years younger than me, but…once while talking, I mentioned that I was in college during the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster and his face went white, because he realized he was in third grade at that time! There were moments like that, when we thought, “Oh my god! What are we doing?!” But other than that, it was a lot of fun. And my husband is four years younger than me.

	Do you remember your first kiss with your husband?
	Oh gosh…I felt like I was already in love with him. I was crazy about him! We were both participating in the Groundlings improvisational comedy troupe. It was a long build up before that kiss happened. We were both involved with other people when we met. It was about six months later that we actually went out on a date.

	How did you know he was The One?
	I couldn’t sit next to him at the Groundlings board meetings—he was radiating…something! I thought I was going to have to quit because I couldn’t be around him. And you know what, my friend thought we would be great together. So she convinced me to stay, and the rest is history.

Susan L. Hornik, Happen’s contributing entertainment editor, is based in Los Angeles.

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