Nancy Travis and Tim Allen.
Michael Baker/FoxSurprises on ABC Transmission gears Just keep coming with you Tim Allen scheduled to meet with him Last man standing Costar – and on-screen wife – Nancy Travis.
Us Weekly can exclusively reveal that Travis, 63, He was cast in a guest role In the next episode of the popular ABC sitcom. The actress plays a spirited widow named Charlotte, who connects with Allen's character, Matt.
“Nancy Travis’ story is really clever,” Allen, 71, said exclusively. we Before he thinks about his friendship with Travis off-screen. “Nancy Travis once told me (something) after I called her during it Last man standing. I said: Did you talk to the girls (who play our daughters) over the summer? Then there was a long pause and she said, “Tim, these are not our daughters and I'm not actually your wife.”
“She was very cool about it because sometimes when they were having trouble with the show, I'd say, 'How do you think they're feeling?'” he joked. And she'd say, “Tim, they're actors.” “We just read (what's on the page but) it's not really sad.”
the Transmission gears reunion It represents the first time Allen and Travis will share the screen since ABC Last man standing. In the sitcom, which aired from 2011 to 2021, Allen and Travis played a fictional couple: Mike and Vanessa Baxter.
after Last man standing After the film finished, Allen returned to the world of comedy with Shifting Gears, which premiered earlier this month. The show follows Allen's character, a widow, as he reconnects with her His estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings).
Allen previously said we He was fascinated By shake.
“From the beginning (the creative team said) we'd never see Tim Allen in a comedy with a romantic interest. I was like, 'Well, I just lost my wife, so I don't see that,'” he noted. “So I like where we're at.” I said, 'If it happens over time and it happens naturally with two people who don't get along, that's OK. I'm just really careful about it. I just want it to happen where it's organic and appropriate.'
In addition Last man standingAllen was also in the lead Home improvementwhich ran from 1991 to 1999. The wide experience of the actor allowed the freedom to do Try something new this time around.
Does everyone know what time it is? That was the catchphrase that came out of Home Improvement, a sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1991 to May 1999. The 30-minute comedy followed Tim “The Toolman” Taylor (Tim Allen) as he… He hosted a home improvement show called “ Gadget Time”, although it is not (…) at all.
“I did Mike Baxter (on Last man standing) and Tim Taylor (on Home improvement). So if I did it again, I brought up three things: I want a man who recently lost his wife, so he's dealing with grief; I want a man with family who doesn't get along; “Then he has a custom auto shop,” he continued. “(Matt) is more like me. I'm more of an artist. I was a design student and a philosopher, and my stand-up comedy was about messing with people in a good way.”
“I come from a large family run by women,” Allen concluded. So my perspective is completely different from men. I don't think we're running things so I want to be that guy. He's not a man's man in that term, and he wasn't trying to be anything but what he is.
Transmission gears It airs on ABC Wednesday at 8pm ET before airing the next day on Hulu.
