She's cute.' I was in some kind of denial."Īs he remembered those early days to New York magazine, "When I met Megan, we were both very staunchly single. We were both staunchly single at the time. "At the first read-through, Megan was so funny," Offerman said. Not that her TV star status swayed him in any way. For starters, he didn't have a television and had never seen Will & Grace, and he told the people at his audition, "I don't need some TV chick in the play." "We had both come to it in the same way, where we were like, 'I really want to do something good in theater right now.' It was right after season two of Will & Grace." "Megan and I, neither of us knew anyone else in the whole production," he continued. I realized what I needed to do was find a piece of theater that I could sort of reestablish my manhood upon." It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. And then I met Nick and I didn't really know what to make of it all."įor Offerman, though, as he told The Believer, "She was literally the answer to my prayers. "I had only ever dated these very skinny, boyish, kind of hairless" fellows, she shared. She was married to casting director Michael Katcher from 1992 until 1996, and when she met Offerman, she told Conan, she'd never dated a guy like him before. native-starred on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and played Rizzo in Grease on Broadway. She turned up back in Mexico-I think she is a really successful Mexican actress now-but I already had everything in motion, so I came here by myself."īefore landing the life-changing role of socialite sociopath Karen Walker in Will & Grace in 1998, Mullally-an L.A. We're moving to where it's warm.' Then she flaked out and disappeared. "I had a girlfriend at the time who was from Mexico," Offerman remembered his 1997 move in an interview with The Believerin 2012, "and she said, 'No, motherf-ker. Offerman, who's from Illinois, was doing theater in Chicago when he was encouraged to make a move to warmer climes. "It wasn't my first coyote," Mullally quipped.īut there's been no one she'd rather mate with since. "After our play one night, we went to a fancy grocery store, which was a new thing for me, and got a baguette and cheeses and a bottle of nice wine, and she knew the park. "It was early on and I feel like so many of the pleasures in our marriage have been cruise-directed by Megan, and this was no exception," Offerman said in recalling their date night tryst on a 2018 episode of the podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. In fact, it was only a matter of time before they were sealing the deal, in front of some curious coyotes in a rustic park nestled off one of Los Angeles' famed canyons. But what's a few moons difference between soul mates? She soon found out that he was more than 11 years younger than she is-"and I was pissed," she admitted. "And so I met Nick and I thought, Oh, great,'cause this guy's like 38!'" "When we met, I was 41, and I'd always had younger guys pursue me, and I was really sick of it," Mullally shared with GQ. That might have had something to do with his mustache and bald head, shaved for the play they were doing, rather than the fact that the 29-year-old actor and skilled craftsman was living in someone's unfinished basement with no real floor or walls. When Megan Mullally first met Nick Offerman in 2000, she thought he was older.
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