The risk of everybody knowing your name is that they might make assumptions about you.
“I thought you were a little bit like that.
But my joke is that slick guys don’t say ‘gosharoonie’ after making love.”
Ted Danson on ‘Cheers’.NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
in case his stepchildren were listening.
Steenburgen wasn’t the only one who thought of Danson in terms of hisCheersalter ego.
“He and I were hugeCheersfans,” Steenburgen said.
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
“He hadn’t exactly loved people I’d gone out with after our divorce.
And he could be kind of obvious about it.
“And he goes, ‘Oh, s—.’
Because he didn’t really know you, but he admired you so much as an actor.”
“You were so attached and so proud of it.
Danson quipped, “And from that moment on, folks, I had her.”
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The truth is that Danson was intimidated by Steenburgen and immediately wowed by her.
“I remember your smile,” he said.
I remember somebody asked me, ‘What was she like?’
I said, ‘Wow.
I mean, I can imagine marrying somebody like that.’
I was just quite taken with you.”
For her part, Steenburgen was pleased to discover that Danson wasn’t anything like Sam Malone.
“And, I just kept thinking, ‘Wow, he’s not who I pictured.’
Eventually, we actually got time to be friends.”
“We pulled over and kissed, and then got back into the canoe, and I was smitten.
I was a goner at that point.”
Listen to Steenburgen on Danson’s podcast above for more.
