Ted Danson & Mike Schur Speak Up About Being Subversively Funny In Netflix’s Senescent Spy Comedy ‘A Man On The Inside’
deadline.comWhen The Mole Agent, a Chilean documentary, was nominated for the Oscar for the Best Documentary Feature, the chances of it being adapted into a comedy starring Ted Danson were slim, at best.
But that’s exactly what Morgan Sackett, the producing partner of The Good Place creator Mike Schur, thought when he watched the doc.
The film follows an elderly man who goes undercover in a nursing home to investigate claims that a resident was being mistreated.
The series takes a similar, if slightly more lighthearted, route with Danson playing retired professor Charles, who, after struggling to deal with his wife’s death and growing distant from his daughter Emily, played by Mary Elizabeth Ellis, spies a classified ad from private investigator Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) and takes on a new adventure.
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