'Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9' will cause a lot of controversy, assures Mary Steenburgen

The six-year wait for 'Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9' ends shortly and regular cast member Mary Steenburgen believes the new season of the HBO comedy series "will definitely cause people to ask questions". Larry David, who isn't afraid of touching upon controversial subjects, has done it again, according to Steenburgen, the better half of Ted Danson, who will also return to the core cast of the show that began a little over 17 years ago.

Steenburgen will re-join the regular cast of David, Cheryl Hines (Cheryl David), Jeff Garlin (Jeff Greene), Susie Essman (Susie Greene), JB Smoove (Leon Black) Ted Danson (himself), Richard Lewis (himself) and Bob Einstein (Marty Funkhouser), among others. Steenburgen was admittedly under the impression that David was no longer interested in bringing back 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' after taking a six-year hiatus from writing the show.

“I’m so glad because it (has been) so long now that we really didn’t know if it was going to happen. And we never got a straight answer out of him when we would ask him over the last couple years. And people asked us constantly, ‘When’s Curb coming back?’ That, and ‘When are you making Step Brothers 2?’ And then last summer, he suddenly said, ‘I think we’re doing it,’ and he pitched the idea for our part of it," Steenburgen told EW in an interview.

Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9 will "stir up the hornet's nest"

Danson and Steenburgen were regular fixtures during the few first few seasons, especially the third season in which the "Cheers" star and Larry David go into partnership on a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. Though the couple has on the air over the past seasons, they haven't actively influenced storylines. When asked if David had written a specific storyline for Steenburgen and Danson, the star of NBC comedy "The Good Place" said that 'Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9' would get a lot of people talking.

“Um. It (the new season) will definitely cause people to ask me questions. We’re going to stir up a little bit of a hornet’s nest with it, I’m afraid, but it’s how he (Larry David) saw it and what he wanted to do," said Steenburgen, stressing that David wanted create some controversy while writing the plot for the latest season.

Steenburgen remained tight-lipped when asked to reveal further details. “I don’t want it to ruin it for anybody. There are aspects of it that are a little challenging for me. And I think for Ted, too. But it will be interesting. It will be really interesting… It’s a great experience. It’s the same people, and it’s Larry’s completely unique, bizarre, wonderful voice.”

'Curb your enthusiasm season 9' is due for release in the fall 0f 2017. In recent weeks, there's been talk that HBO and Larry David could agree upon a tenth and final season to end the iconic show. Previously, there was a two-year gap between seasons 5, 6, 7 and 8. Going by that pattern, the tenth season of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' could go on the air as early as 2019.