Becoming a member of me for the primary stay taping of my Deadline video sequence The Actor’s Facet is 18-time Emmy nominee and three-time winner Ted Danson, whose newest hit sequence, A Man on the Inside, has been renewed for a second season by Netflix. The sequence was an AFI honoree for TV Program of the 12 months, and Danson has obtained Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics Alternative nominations for it. Moreover he was the recipient of the Carol Burnett Award on the 2025 Golden Globes.
Danson got here to The Actor’s Facet taping straight from the set the place he’s now working with spouse Mary Steenburgen as his love curiosity in Season 2 of the present, which nonetheless has him fixing crimes, this time on a school campus. We shot the episode in entrance of a packed viewers at Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters, and Danson talks about all the things — and I imply all the things — in a outstanding profession that has seen him set a report for an actor for being a sequence common in 12 completely different reveals, a feat matched by no different.
Danson tells tales of Cheers (and the one motive it wasn’t canceled after its first season), Becker, The Good Place, CSI, Curb Your Enthusiasm and his first gig within the cleaning soap opera Somerset, which just about ended his profession earlier than it began as a result of a extreme panic assault that had him sweating throughout his co-stars. He additionally talks about studying to play bagpipes for his first movie, 1978’s The Onion Area, working along with his idol Jack Lemmon in Dad, Macaulay Culkin as his son in Getting Even With Dad, the large success of Three Males and a Child and a lot extra. Matters additionally embody the life-changing recommendation he acquired from a celebrity which has set him on a brand new path because the 77-year-old appears to be like to the long run and ageing with goal. That’s the truth is a theme of A Man on the Inside, wherein he takes on a job as an undercover mole in an assisted residing house the place a petty crime has taken place. The sequence is predicated on the Oscar-nominated Chilean documentary The Mole Agent, however Danson and an distinctive solid take it to new locations. He additionally tells me about The place All people Is aware of Your Title, the brand new podcast he does with Cheers buddy Woody Harrelson.
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And in addition, be a part of me each Wednesday throughout Emmy season for a brand new episode of The Actor’s Facet in its common slot.
