It’s ironic thatDonald Glover’sMr.
and Mrs. Smith, whichfocuses on all the complexities of marriage,started off with a professional divorce.
“Youre like, ‘Oh s—, thisshouldhave worked.’
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“Its just how we got the laughs …
I dont think [Waller-Bridge and I] ever felt comfortable enough with each other.”
He went on to explain how that’s okay because “thats what happens when youre two captains.”
“Its like, ‘This is how I run my ship.’
‘Well, this is how I run my ship,'” he said.
“And its such a big idea, this show, I dont think it can have two captains.
“Like, when do you quit?”
“Because you want to be cool, like, ‘Oh its over, thats fine.’
But we both put a lot of work into it.
We both were working really hard.
So, who gets to keep the cat?”
“We just asked Maya a lot more,” Glover said.
“We came up with a lot of things on set and improved things on set.
The big thing was playing to Mayas strengths.
But Erskine toldThe Hollywood Reportershe could still tell what had carried over from the Waller-Bridge era of the show.
“There were some lines that were left that I could just feel were Phoebe,” Erskine said.
“Id be like, ‘Oh, I love this line.
This feels like Phoebe.'”
And Glover confirmed, “It was so crazy, Fran would always be like, ‘Shes right.
That was Phoebes line.'”
Just call it spousal intuition.
