14 DAY TRIAL // Just recently, actor Jason Alexander made an appearance on the red carpet sporting a full head of hair, which, as fans must know, hasn’t happened since he was much younger. In a long Twitter post, the actor explains how that came to be.
Ever so honest, Alexander says that, in recent years, it’s been getting increasingly hard for him to find roles because everyone wanted to cast him as the funny bald guy.
As such, he and his wife pondered the options he had in terms of solving the problem of his bald spot, which had never been a problem before.
In almost no time, they realized there were only 3 ways he could go about this: embrace it like he’d done before (but that wouldn’t have helped him in his predicament); shave it all off (but that would have narrowed his choice of roles even more) or go for a semi-permanent solution.
He decided for that last one, because it also offers him the liberty to still play bald guys if it’s required to him, as opposed to permanent hairplugs, he explains.
Jason is speaking out on this issue precisely because he doesn’t want it to become so with the media – and he wants the tabloids to stop speculating.
“What you see on my head is a really good, semi-permanent hairpiece. By semi-permanent I mean that I can wear it constantly for weeks at a time, if I so choose. I can swim, shower, work out – whatever,” the actor explains.
“It stays on. Or I can take it off any time of any day I choose. The reason it looks thin is that I challenged my designer to make me a piece that would look very similar to the way I did 10 years ago,” he further says.
The idea was to create a piece that looked as natural as possible, because he didn’t want to appear he had the kind of hair he never had in real life.
Obviously, he’s very pleased with the kind of job the designer did, but he admits he’s looking forward to see what he comes up with next, because he’s still working on it “make it as flattering and natural looking as [he] can.”
“So yes, I'm still bald and yes, just like others in my profession who have to either wear make-up or dye their hair or undergo surgery, I now do a little something. It’s honestly no big deal for me and hope it's not for you either,” Jason concludes.