REAL- LIFE COUPLE PLAY SIBS IN ‘ LIFE’
Megan Mullally andNick Offerman team up for sister/ brother cameo in 2nd season of CBS comedy
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally have never been shy about showing their affection— even when they’re playing brother and sister.
The married couple of 13 years played volatile exes on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, and recently wrapped a raunchy, musical comedy tour about their relationship called Summer of 69: No Apostrophe. Now, they’ve joined the second season of CBS comedy Life in Pieces ( Thursdays, 9: 30 ET/ PT), in which Mullally plays Mary- Lynn, cheery mother of teenage Clementine ( Hunter King), whom she raised with her brother Spencer ( Offerman) when her husband left.
Offerman and Mullally caught up with USA TODAY to chat about their touchyfeely team- up, that Will & Grace reunion and what’s next: Q What’d you think when ( Life in Pieces creator) Justin Adler approached you guys about playing siblings?
We liked the idea. The MEGAN MULLALLY: fact that they wanted us to play this brother and sister who are suspiciously close to one another, we sort of gravitated toward. QAre they actually incestuous? I knowthey sleep in twin beds in the same room, but I still wasn’t sure. Neither are we, and I think MULLALLY: that’s the point. You’re not really supposed to know what it is exactly.
Q Have siblings? you ever been mistaken for NICK OFFERMAN: I should only be so lucky. MULLALLY: Only when I have a beard.
Q How did playing them compare to Ron Swanson and Tammy Two on Parks and Recreation?
MULLALLY: They’re very physical, but they get along much, much better than Ron and Tammy. They’re much more affectionate.
Q Megan, you recently reunited with your Will & Grace co- stars for an election- themed video. How’d it feel to step back into Karen’s shoes?
MULLALLY: Oh, it was so much fun. It was really weird, it felt like we had just been away for the weekend or something. We all just slid right back into it and had a blast.
Q Many people on Twitter thought you were announcing a new season. Is that something you’d be interested in?
MULLALLY: Yeah. It’s something that’s been talked about. I don’t know what will happen, but it’s an idea that’s been bandied about. Q You just wrapped a joint comedy tour. Are you working on anything else together?
We’re going to write a comedy MULLALLY: book about relationships and marriage, based on our triumphs and union. Also, Nick and I are in the process of starting to think about a television show that we can do together. It’d be something that we’d both act in and probably play a couple, but we’re still bandying a couple ideas about.