Tim Allen calls his character’s age gap relationship on Shifting Gears is on the border of creepy.
The 73-year-old actor’s Matt Parker is dating Jenna Elfman‘s Eve Drake, who is about 20 years younger.
In a new interview, the Toy Story 5 star recalls having concerns about the on-screen romance in his ABC comedy, though he notes it’s “not much different” than he and his wife, Jane Hajduk.
“It depends on the pictures. It gets creepy for me at a certain age [and] we’re right at that border,” he told Us Weekly. “If Jenna didn’t look so damn nice than our age gap is not that much. I just let my hair go natural and she just looks — especially on camera — quite young.”
“They say when you’re lit better and I go, ‘When I’m lit better, I look probably 68,’” Tim says. “I just don’t want to be creepy about it — and that’s kind of the borderline image these days.”
“It hasn’t really come out — except when they joke about, ‘Well, a guy your age.’ When they have her making jokes about it, it’s not my preference. But I said, ‘It’s admitting what is there,’” he continued. “There’s times — and I’ll give it to them — that they lit right and in the right clothing so it doesn’t look creepy.”
Tim notes that he just “wanted a car show about a widower to deal with grief,” but goes with the flow when Jenna‘s character was introduced.
“They threw this romance in there and I know Jenna so I said, ‘That’s not the problem. It’s just that I’m feeling way too old for her.’ Sometimes they say, ‘Visually it doesn’t look like you think it does,’” he said.
Now, he’s interested to see where the characters go next, after seeing the reception to the relationship, which was off, then back on by the end of season two.
“She’s so fun to be around and it’s brought out a whole different part of that show and brought a different audience to that show,” Tim shared. “I’m really out there for the car guys and I make sure the car stuff is fun and exciting. Then the office is cool and now you’ve got romance for the people that want that. Because it turns out the flirting and the actual activity between these two characters is working and I said, ‘All right, I’ll go there.’ [Jenna is] really good at this and the romance is kind of generated quite by accident.”
If you missed it, Shifting Gears has been confirmed to return for a third season, along with more ABC renewals.
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