Ted Danson Reveals Wife Mary Steenburgen Is Playing His Love Interest in “Man on the Inside” Season 2: 'We're Nauseatingly in Love'

Ted Danson isn’t acrophobic to operation business pinch family.

Months aft it was revealed that nan actor’s wife, Mary Steenburgen, is joining nan formed of A Man connected nan Inside for its 2nd season, much specifications are coming to ray astir her role.

In nan caller section of his podcast, Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Danson, 77, revealed that he and Steenburgen, 72, will beryllium playing lovers.

“It's conscionable magical,” he gushed. “We're falling successful love. The communicative evolves, but I'm conscionable caput complete heels. My characteristic is successful emotion pinch her, and to beryllium location connected camera and look into your wife's eyes — and we're nauseatingly successful emotion successful backstage life — and conscionable vanish into her eyes successful beforehand of a camera is beautiful astounding.”

“By nan way, if we suck, it's her fault,” he past joked. “I conscionable want to spell connected nan record.”

Danson and Steenburgen person shared nan surface before.

The brace are nary strangers to moving together. They began making love erstwhile they were starring arsenic a joined mates successful nan 1993 movie Pontiac Moon and went connected to look alongside 1 different It Must Be Love, Gulliver’s Travels and more.

“There was a agelong clip wherever we couldn't activity together because, ‘where's nan surprise?’ benignant of thing,” nan Cheers alum confessed. “But this communicative is perfect. It's astir 2nd chances, and someway it works. Or it doesn't, [but] it feels for illustration it's moving and I'm excessively aged to beryllium superstitious.”

Danson said he wants his woman to consciousness welcomed onto group aft he already starred successful nan first season.

Danson stars successful nan Netflix drama arsenic a widowed retiree named Charles who “gets a caller lease connected life” erstwhile he goes undercover for a backstage interrogator to thief lick a lawsuit successful a elder surviving facility. Knowing he has acquisition connected nan show, he said that “part of my occupation is to host” nan Back to nan Future actress arsenic a newcomer.

“You cheque your ego astatine nan door,” he explained. “If she doesn't person a awesome time, I’m an a--hole, and that's connected me.”

“And that's conscionable attitude,” he noted. “But past [creator] Mike Schur has conscionable written — he's really bully astatine having an thought for a character, past uncovering nan personification that he wants to play that characteristic and past penning afloat retired for that character aliases actress. He knows what I tin do good and what I can't do well, and he very kindly writes to what I tin do well, and nan aforesaid for Mary.”

The mates person been joined for 30 years but were successful different relationships erstwhile they met.

Danson and Steenburgen first crossed paths successful 1983 erstwhile he was auditioning to play her hubby connected Cross Creek, but some were joined to different group astatine nan time. It wasn’t until 10 years later that they developed a romanticist relationship earlier tying nan knot successful 1995.

“We some realized soon earlier we met each different [for nan 2nd time], we some had nan aforesaid thought: ‘Well, evidently I'm not tin of being successful a relationship, I will f--- up anything,’” Danson recalled. “That was mine. Hers was, ‘I cognize I look for illustration I'd beryllium bully astatine relationships, but intelligibly I'm not.’”

“Anyway, this is maine being embarrassed, but we see it divine,” he continued. “I deliberation we person angels that are putting america together. There's nary reason. I was specified a basking messiness erstwhile she met me, there's nary logic she should person taken a 2nd look. And somehow, present we are. And we activity astatine it, you know? But anyway, very lucky.”

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Season 1 of A Man connected nan Inside is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.