Mel Brooks recalled in his memoir that Gene Wilder had just won request for him, and delivered with “with a big smiles on his face.” He asked that Brooks — who played four roles in Blazing Saddles — not appear in Young Frankenstein.
When Brooks asked why, Wilder replied, “Because I don’t want a minute of your concentration to be split between your acting and directing.”
Brooks did ultimately record several voice parts, and played a German villager in one short scene. He also got plenty of screen time in his next film, 1976’s Silent Movie, in which he was the lead.
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