“I run in shallower circles then Holly,” Danson jokes. “At the Golden Globes, she’s sitting in the movie section I’m down in the TV section.”
Danson plays Neil Bremer, a retired business tycoon who decides to run for Los Angeles mayor on a whim. And he wins, much to the chagrin of his own daughter, as well as city council member Arpi Meskamin, played by Hunter. “Ted has the most sophisticated instincts and intuitions for comedy,” Hunter says. “So when Ted ever speaks up, about blocking, about the words, about when sentences are being spoken, props, where we are in the room, all that stuff, I listen. Because his intuitions are unerring. I’ve never done a sitcom. It is a different thing. So it was scary. Now it’s no longer scary. And I just continue to watch and listen to what Ted’s instincts are.
Given how loaded with jokes “Mr. Mayor” is, Danson compares working on “Mr. Mayor” to downhill skiing: “Much like if you’re on a very steep hill, you have one choice, point your skis down, and ski it as fast and as well as you can.,” he says. “And if you try to sit back a little bit, you fall, and I think it’s a little bit like that. You just have to trust, you have to really know your words, and then kind of joyfully leap off the cliff.
Hunter, meanwhile, was drawn to the mystery of her character. “I think that she’s difficult to get a real handle on, it’s one of the things that I love about her on the page immediately is like, What does she stand for?” Hunter says. “There’s a lot of contradictions. And as the show goes on, they really make the contradictions manifest in kind of very, sometimes shocking ways, but mainly surprising. I love that while she can be very condemning, she’s also kind of enlightening.
They know shit about politics. That’s like saying I once played a doctor and it’s now time to do surgery.
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