Tim Allen revealed if he has plans for an ex Home improvement costar Jonathan Taylor Thomas to appear in his new sitcom Shifting gears.
“Anything is possible,” 71-year-old Alan exclusively shares in the latest issue of Us Weekly. “He just went back (to the last episode we shot). He appeared on the set.
Allen said he would like nothing more share the screen with Thomas43, again, adding, “He is literally my child. I raised this kid for eight years with home improvement. These are all my children and I feel sick about it.”
Before leading the cast of ABC’s Shifting gearsAlan is involved Home improvement from 1991 to 1999 together Thomas, Patricia Richardson, Taran Noah Smith, Zachery Ty Bryan, Richard Karn and Debbie Dunning. Thomas left the series early to focus on school and ultimately decided to do so withdraw from the action completely.
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Allen and Thomas reunited on screen for four episodes of Last Man Standing. Thomas also directed three episodes of the sitcom. While Thomas stayed out of the public eye, Allen continued to find success as America’s favorite sitcom dad with his roles as Mike Baxter in Last Man Standingwhich lasted from 2011 to 2021, and now enters Matt Parker Shifting gears.
“(My ex-screen wife) Nancy Travis once she told me (something) after I called her on time Last Man Standing. I said, ‘Did you talk to the girls (who play our daughters) over the summer?’ Then there’s this long pause and she goes, ‘Tim, these aren’t our daughters and I’m not actually your wife,’” he quipped. “She was so wonderful because sometimes when they were having problems on the show, I’d say, ‘How do you think they feel?’ And she’d say, ‘Tim, they’re actors. We just read (what’s on the page, but) she’s not really that sad.
included Shifting gearsAllen plays a widowed father opposite an estranged daughter played by Kat Dennings. The duo gushed about how they “immediately” forms a bond once thrown into the show.
“The principal wanted to see how we got along. It never stopped. The kismet was crazy. We were both born on the same day – many years apart,” he said us. “We are different in so many ways. But our approach to comedy is very similar. She pisses me off and I’m not easy that way. Kat can (deliver these lines) with a straight face. Her anger – which she played 2 broke girls — very much like the edginess that Mike Baxter could go into now.”
Alan continued: “When we argue on screen it’s funny that we interrupt each other and it comes quite naturally. I don’t know where it comes from. I already adore this guy. She and her husband (Andrew WK) are great people. It’s like I’ve known her for an awful lot of years, like most of this cast.
Dennings, 38, felt the same way her relationship with Alan.
“It clicked pretty quickly. We had lunch after I accepted the role and I immediately felt like I could trust him for some reason,” she shared in an exclusive interview with us. “And he opened up to me very quickly. So (I was) like, ‘Okay, this guy’s kind of letting me in.’
The trust on the set allowed Dennings and Allen to improve their comedy skills. “It felt very organic,” Dennings recalls. “And as (filming) progresses, our scenes are so funny, if I may say so. Arguments are my favorite scenes to play because I have no fear. There is no fear for any of us. We just do it and it’s so much fun.”
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While Alan was enjoying the job Shifting gears, he wasn’t sure at first he was back in sitcoms narrating us“It was a difficult decision. I was doing Disney+ Santa Claus series at the time, and I was like, “I really can’t think about that right now.” Do I want to do linear TV? I was so depressed about how streaming has hurt TV. So if I did, I want to raise it.”
Shifting gears airs on ABC on Wednesdays at 8pm ET before streaming the next day on Hulu.
