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Tim Allen reveal if there are plans for the former Housing Improvement costar Jonathan Taylor Thomas to appear on his new sitcom Shifting Gears.
“Everything is a possibility,” Allen, 71, shared exclusively in the latest edition of Us Weekly. “He came back (for the last episode we filmed). He appeared on the set.”
Allen said he would love nothing more than to do that share the screen with Thomas43, again, adding, “He’s literally my kid. I raised that child for eight years on Wella Cartrefi. These are all my children and I am very sick about this.”
Before leading the cast of ABC’s Shifting GearsAllen starred on Housing Improvement from 1991 to 1999 side by side Thomas, Patricia Richardson, Taran Noah Smith, Zachery Ty Bryan, Richard Karn a Debbe Dunning. Thomas left the series early to focus on school and ultimately decided to do so stepped back from acting altogether.
Does everyone know what time it is? That was the famous phrase that came out of Home Improvement, the ABC sitcom that aired between September 1991 and May 1999. The 30-minute comedy followed Tim “The Toolman” Taylor (Tim Allen) as he hosted a home improvement show of’ the name “Tool Time,” although it is not at all in (…)
Allen and Thomas reunited on screen for four episodes of The 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 The Last Man Standingwhich ran from 2011 to 2021, s now Matt Parker is in Shifting Gears.
“(My ex-wife on screen) Nancy Travis once told me (something) after I called her during The Last Man Standing. I said, ‘Have you spoken to the girls (who play our girls) over the summer?’ Then there’s this long pause and she says, ‘Tim, these aren’t our girls and I’m not really your wife,'” she quipped. “She was so great about it because sometimes when they were struggling on the show, I’d go, ‘How do you think they feel?’ And she would respond, ‘Tim, they’re actors. I just read (what’s on the page but) it’s not that sad.’”
Ar Shifting GearsAllen plays a widowed father opposite an estranged daughter played by her Kat Dennings. The duo gushed about how they are “immediately” form a connection once cast on the show.
“The director wanted to see how we got on. He 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 cracks me up and I’m not that easy. Kat can (deliver these lines) with a straight face. His anger – he played on it 2 Broke Women – much like the clarity Mike Baxter could go to now. “
Allen continued: “When we’re arguing on screen, it’s funny that we interrupt each other and it just comes naturally. I don’t know where it comes from. I love this person already. She and her husband (Andrew WK) are great people. It’s like I’ve known her for scary years, the same as most of this cast.”
Dennings, 38, felt the same her bond with Allen.
“It clicked pretty quickly. We had lunch after I accepted the role and I immediately felt I could trust him for some reason,” he shared in an exclusive interview with Us. “And it opened up very quickly for me. So I was like, ‘Okay, this guy is like let me in.'”
The trust on set allowed Dennings and Allen to do just that improve their comedy skills. “It felt very organic,” Dennings recalled. “And as (filming) has progressed, our scenes are so funny, if I do say so myself. The debates are my favorite scenes to play because I’m not afraid. Neither of us is afraid. We’re going for it and it’s so much fun.”
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While Allen enjoyed working on Shifting Gears, he wasn’t sure at first he would come back to sitcoms, saying Us“It was a complicated decision. I was doing Disney+’s Santa Claus series at the time and I said, ‘I can’t think about this now.’ Do I want to do linear TV? I was so depressed about how streaming has hurt television. So if I were to do it, I want to elevate it.”
Shifting Gears airs on ABC Wednesdays at 8 pm ET before streaming the next day on Hulu.
