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The Lemony Snicket star Patrick Warburton almost couldn't do streaming site's show
"Barry sent me a text: 'Can you come to Vancouver for five months and do my Netflix series?'" Warburton remembered.
Patrick Warburton plays Lemony Snicket, the narrator on Netflix's "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
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So it was this film that I think inspired Daniel Handler to consider me as Lemony Snicket in the series. You never know."
Warburton told us he would have loved to accept the role at the time , but it took him his own series of events to free him up.
At the time, he was under contract with NBC and starring on its comedy "Crowded." He was also slated to reprise his starring role on "The Tick" for Amazon's revival.
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In the end, NBC canceled "Crowded" and let Warburton out of his contract.
"I was grateful to the folks at NBC," he said.
And as for "The Tick," Amazon decided to go in a different direction with the new show and went with a new lead actor.
I was certainly interested [in 'The Tick' role]," Warburton said, "but they wanted to redo it from the ground up, which I wholly understand."
The actor was happy to finally accept Sonnenfeld's offer after his dance card opened up.
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