Danson and Steenburgen, who have been married for 30 years, are deeply in love with each other in the upcoming season of ‘A Man on the Inside’.
Ted Danson isn’t afraid to work with his family.
Months after it was revealed that the actor’s wife, Mary Steenburgen, is joining the cast of A Man on the Inside for its second season, more details are being shared about her role.
In the recent episode of his podcast, Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Danson, 77, shared that he and Steenburgen, 72, will be playing lovers.
It’s just magical. We’re falling in love. The story evolves, but I’m just head over heels. My character is in love with her, and to sit there on camera and look into your wife’s eyes — and we’re nauseatingly in love in private life — and just disappear into her eyes in front of a camera is pretty astounding. By the way, if we suck, it’s her fault. I just want to go on the record.
he gushed and he then joked
The pair are used to working together. They began dating when they were starring as a married couple in the 1993 film Pontiac Moon and went on to appear together in It Must Be Love, Gulliver’s Travels and more.
There was a long time where we couldn’t work together because, ‘where’s the surprise?’ kind of thing. But this story is perfect. It’s about second chances, and somehow it works. Or it doesn’t, [but] it feels like it’s working and I’m too old to be superstitious.
the Cheers alum confessed
Danson stars in the Netflix comedy as a widowed retiree named Charles who “gets a new lease on life” when he goes undercover for a private investigator to help solve a case in a senior living facility.
Since he has experience on the show, he said that “part of my job is to host” the Back to the Future actress as a newcomer.
You check your ego at the door. If she doesn’t have a wonderful time, I’m an a–hole, and that’s on me. And that’s just attitude. But then [creator] Mike Schur has just written — he’s really good at having an idea for a character, then finding the person that he wants to play that character and then writing full out for that actor or actress. He knows what I can do well and what I can’t do well, and he very kindly writes to what I can do well, and the same for Mary.
he explained
Danson and Steenburgen first met in 1983 when he was auditioning to play her husband on Cross Creek, but both were married to other people at the time. It wasn’t until 10 years later that they formed a romantic connection before getting married in 1995.
We both realized shortly before we met each other [for the second time], we both had the same thought: ‘Well, obviously I’m not capable of being in a relationship, I will f— up anything,’. That was mine. Hers was, ‘I know I look like I’d be good at relationships, but clearly I’m not. Anyway, this is me being embarrassed, but we consider it divine. I think we have angels that are putting us together. There’s no reason. I was such a hot mess when she met me, there’s no reason she should have taken a second look. And somehow, here we are. And we work at it, you know? But anyway, very lucky.
Danson recalled
Source: PEOPLE