By Page Six | Created at 2025-01-11 14:14:04 | Updated at 2025-01-11 16:56:32
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“The Great British Bake Off” turns David Schwimmer into a crybaby.
“I tear up,” the actor tells Page Six in an exclusive interview, adding that his favorite contestant from the most recent season was Nelly Ghaffar.
“There’s a woman on it that has stolen my heart,” he says. “She’s from Slovakia.”
Schwimmer, 58, appeared on a celebrity edition of the popular series in 2023 to raise funds for cancer — and he received the highly coveted Paul Hollywood handshake for a vegetable and curry pot pie.
“Honestly, I’ve never had tofu that I’ve enjoyed before,” Hollywood uttered before offering his hand to the “Friends” star. “That is a fantastic pie.”
Now that he has perfected pastries, Schwimmer is back on the small screen in the limited anthology series “Goosebumps: The Vanishing.”
The Emmy nominee plays Anthony Brewer, a former botany professor and divorced father of twins who are sent to spend a summer in their dad’s neighborhood, appropriately named Gravesend, Brooklyn.
Schwimmer admits he never read R.L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” novels to his daughter, Cleo, 13, while she was growing up, but he had “of course” heard about the franchise and knew it was “really beloved.”
“I am a huge fan of the horror-action-comedy genre, and I’ve just never been able to play in that genre, so I was really, really excited,” the “Madagascar” voice actor, who signed on after meeting the writers, tells us.
A bonus was that the spooky show, which is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu, was shot in New York, where Schwimmer lives.
“I was born in Queens, and we shot all over Queens and Brooklyn. … I just thought it was too delicious an opportunity [to pass up],” he says of the gig.
Plus, the “Band of Brothers” star has one thing in common with his character: a love of plants.
“I literally have the app on my phone … where you put your camera on any plant in the world and it immediately tells you everything about it,” he enthuses. “Like, I’m that guy!”
