At 76, Ted Danson refuses to let his age hinder him from working on screen. Instead, he continues to live fully with no plans of slowing down. Ahead of releasing his latest series “A Man on the Inside,” Danson shared his newfound perspective on aging after being inspired by film icon Jane Fonda.
“And I looked at her and it was like, no. She has her foot on the gas pedal! She’s, like, doing a 12-hour day, shooting her show, jumping on a bus to go, you know, support the service industry in Sacramento with a handful of women. “Don’t slow down, just keep going, keep living your life.
I think that’s one of the things our elders can pass on to us. This is how you live life right up until the end,” he added. The Netflix comedy series addresses the experience and stigmas surrounding aging.
Based on the 2020 documentary “The Mole Agent,” in which an 83-year-old man goes undercover in a Chilean nursing home and discovers the hardships elderly people face, creator Mike Schur says “A Man on the Inside” has a similar aim. “I would say the purpose of this show is simply to discuss a subject that very few people discuss, which is aging,” he told CBS. “It’s this subject that we just don’t like to talk about.
It’s thought of in this country (I think more than other countries) as something almost shameful or embarrassing.” “If you’re dying, you somehow made a mistake,” Danson added. Schur responded in concurrence: “You screwed up! Yeah, you screwed.