The Good Place may be off the air for good, but the cast still have a lot of love for one another.
At the premiere of Ted Danson’s Netflix series A Man on the Inside on Sunday, Nov. 10, Kristen Bell and D’Arcy Carden showed up to support their former Good Place costar, sharing long, warm embraces.
Danson, 76, had high praise for Bell, who played deceased pharmaceutical saleswoman Eleanor Shellstrop — a role that earned her a Golden Globes nomination in 2019. She currently stars in the Netflix show Nobody Wants This, which was recently renewed for a second season.
“I adore her and she adores me, but she’s also the most adorable human being on the planet,” Danson tells PEOPLE. “There’s no one who doesn’t adore Kristen Bell. Really, truly.”
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“Did you see her latest show?” he continues. “I have to cover my eyes and say, ‘No, no, no. Don’t fall in love with him!’ She’s marvelous. They [Bell and Carden] both are.”
The Good Place ran for four seasons from 2016 to 2020, tackling topics like the afterlife, and earning 14 Emmy nominations in the process, including three nods for Danson for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series.
In A Man on the Inside, Danson plays Michael, a retired gentleman who lost his wife and discovers a new hobby as a private investigator’s assistant, infiltrating a senior living community to help solve a case. Throughout eight episodes, the series manages to depict issues faced by seniors with spritely humor and dignity.
“One of my joys, and I’ve been able to do it in life several times, is to use my age and what I’m going through in life and explore that,” the actor continues. “What is it like to be 76 and be funny, trying to be funny? What does that feel like? Oh my God, [the] greatest joy is to be funny possibly in every possible way I can.”
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“You can still do anything even at our age, and one of the things you have to teach them is how to die, and how to live right up until you do,” he adds. “Don’t call it quits, don’t wind down, keep going. The world needs you. So that to me is one of the great messages of this piece. It’s something that I hope for myself.”
While A Man on the Inside hasn’t been renewed for a second season yet, creator and executive producer Michael Schur is open to the idea of casting Danson’s former costars like Bell and Carden or even Danson’s wife Mary Steenburgen. The acting couple has worked together on several projects over the years, including the 1996 limited series Gulliver’s Travels and the 2004 TV movie It Must Be Love.
“Should we be lucky enough to do more seasons, I think the world is our oyster,” Schur tells PEOPLE, adding, “I think I would happily cast anyone that we thought was the right person to cast regardless of whether Ted has worked with him or not, because [at] this point, he’s worked with everyone!”
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A Man on the Inside premieres Thursday, Nov. 21 on Netflix.
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