Shocking Revelation: Ted Danson Reveals the Secret to Defying Age in ‘A Man on the Inside’—’Don’t Slow Down, Keep Living Your Life’!
Ted Danson plays a mole for an investigation into a nursing home, in “A Man on the Inside.” Netflix”A Man on the Inside” is no different, says series creator Mike Schur. “I would say the purpose of this show is simply to discuss a subject that very few people discuss, which is aging,” said Schur. “It’s this subject that we just don’t like to talk about. It’s thought of in this country (I think more than other countries) as something almost shameful or embarrassing.”“If you’re dying, you somehow made a mistake,” said Danson.
“You screwed up! Yeah, you screwed up, you got old, you know?” Schur said. “And I think that’s weird, because this is what happens if we’re lucky. If we’re lucky, we get old!”
Danson still credits his success today to that one show about a Boston bar. But since he hung up his bartender apron in 1993, he’s been in hit after hit. He was the title character in “Becker.” In “Damages,” he held his own with Glenn Close. He went to heaven and hell in “The Good Place.” And he’s even played himself in “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
Along the way Danson has used his fame to draw attention to his passion project, Oceana, an organization dedicated to preserving the world’s oceans. Asked if he feels they have made progress, he replied, “Yes. I mean, our focus is fishing, over-fishing, making sure that the fisheries of the world are healthy. Because if done right, you could feed a billion people a fish meal every day.”
Actor Ted Danson with correspondent Tracy Smith. CBS NewsThat sounds a little like a miracle – something he touches on in his new show, and something he says he lives with every day.
Asked what are the miracles in his life, Danson replied, “Mary Steenburgen is, you know, literally heaven-sent. I did some work on myself for about a year before I met her, after ‘Cheers,’ becoming emotionally mature and real. And I worked hard at it. And then along came Mary Steenburgen. … We are so blessed. To love somebody and to be loved, is just one of those heaven-on-earth miracles, you know? And that came with Mary.”
And the idea Ted Danson is hoping to share with his latest project is that miracles can be found in any life, right up until the very end. “This is your life,” he said, “not just up to, you know, 65 and then you retire and are going down. No, you get to live right up until you don’t live. And it’s your life. It’s such a gift. Explore it, and be excited about it. Yes, it hurts. Yes, it’s sad. Yes, there’s grief. Yes, there’s all of that. But embrace it. Embrace it, is kind of what I think the message of the show is. It’s what I hope I live with.”
He got emotional sharing that. “I’m just emotional ’cause I finally said something I wanted to say!” he laughed.
