Cheryl Hines Reveals Where She Stands With Larry David After 'Curb' Finale

Cheryl Hines’ friendship with former Curb Your Enthusiasm TV husband, Larry David, has strained in the year since the series ended after 12 seasons.

“I think that relationship changed a little, hasn’t it?” Billy Bush asked Hines, 60, on the Monday, October 27, episode of his “Hot Mics” podcast, referring to her friendship with David, 78, who identifies as staunchly liberal. Hines is famously married to a member of Donald Trump’s Republican cabinet, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she initially met on a ski trip with David.

“I love Larry, and I think Larry loves me. I think it’s just the politics,” she said, after admitting that she hasn’t talked to her former costar “in a while” since the Curb finale screening in April 2024.

Bush, 54, further asked Hines whether she could pick up the phone to call David — or if it “was on him” to reach out.

“I don’t think it’s on either of us,” Hines responded. “I think it’s interesting, you know, I do have one friend I’d talk to almost every day, who now she doesn’t talk to me. … But with Larry, he’s not one [where] you call and chat with him. I do feel, like, if I had a reason to call him, he would talk to him. I don’t think he would not talk to me.”

She continued, “The truth of the matter is [that] because I’m married to Bobby and Bobby’s in the administration, just knowing that is enough for some people to not want to see my face [or] be around me. It’s too hard.”

According to Hines, she has witnessed how politics “can come in and change everything” in various friendships and relationships.

“I could not have written this script,” she said, referring to her husband’s political ambitions. “I learned a lot when Bobby was running for president. It was a new world for me, but it was interesting watching it all play out.”

Hines further claimed that she was even warned by an unnamed colleague that Kennedy’s political dealings could affect her Hollywood career.

“If there was a great project, I’d do it. The entertainment industry has been through a lot,” Hines said, referring to her new life in Washington, D.C., with Kennedy, 71. “When this was all starting to happen … it was hard when people were asking, ‘Are you feeling it?’ There are probably people who won’t want to work with me because I’m married to Bobby, and at the same time, there are people who are calling me and offering me projects because they like me and don’t care about politics. It might not be the same people that I had been working with.”

Elsewhere in the podcast conversation, Hines looked back on her working dynamic with David before Curb Your Enthusiasm wrapped last year.

“I didn’t know much about Larry at the time,” she said, recalling her first audition. “I knew he was a lot older than me, so I thought, ‘Well, nothing I can do about that, but I’ll just do my best.’ I didn’t feel that surprised when they told me I got the part just because, like, sometimes you walk into a room and you feel the energy and [that] everything’s right, the way it should be in this moment. It just felt very natural.”