Susan Walters and Linden Ashby are comfortable to not solely be husband and spouse but additionally coworkers.
“It’s a dream come true,” Ashby, 64, completely instructed Us Weekly of attending to work alongside Walters, 61, on set of The Younger & The Stressed whereas celebrating the cleaning soap’s milestone 13,000th episode.
Walters added that it has been nothing however “rainbows and sunshine” for her and Ashby since they initially joined the solid greater than twenty years in the past.
The couple, who’ve been married since 1986 and share two daughters, at the moment star on the cleaning soap as Diane Jenkins and Cameron Kirsten. Walters acquired her begin on this system in 2001 and left the present in 2004. She briefly returned in 2010 earlier than completely rejoining the principle solid in 2022. Ashby, in the meantime, joined The Younger & The Stressed in 2003 and left the next yr. He reprised his function in 2023.
When Walters first returned to the present, she shared that her husband was very supportive and helped her put together.
“Since I got here again on the present a few years in the past, Linden has helped me with my strains each single day,” the actress instructed Us.
Whereas Walters credit Ashby for serving to her along with her efficiency, he shared that his spouse additionally returns the favor for him — particularly when he’s struggling.
Susan Walters and Linden Ashby Frazer Harrison/Getty Pictures
“There have been days that I might not actually, wouldn’t have made it by way of with out her assist,” he defined. “Working strains after which simply being there and since it’s so quick and it’s so not like something I’ve ever carried out earlier than, and that is the toughest job for an actor in your complete business.”
Walters acknowledged that soaps are “dialogue-heavy” which may be tough in comparison with plenty of the “single digicam” work she and Ashby have carried out prior to now. Nonetheless, she did admit the additional problem could make the job “actually enjoyable.”
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“It’s form of such as you catch this lightning in a bottle that’s very tough with multi-cameras and multi-takes and stuff,” she instructed Us. “You possibly can overlap. There’s a spontaneity that may occur right here that’s fairly wonderful.”
The Younger and the Stressed isn’t the one undertaking the place Walters and Ashby have been costars. The duo met in 1983 on the set of the cleaning soap Loving, the place Walters was an everyday solid member and Ashby began off as a visitor earlier than becoming a member of the solid full time. After Loving led to 1995, the couple started working collectively once more on Teen Wolf for six seasons. Ashby performed the daddy of Stiles Stilinski (Dylan O’Brien) whereas Walters’ character was mother to Stiles’ love curiosity, Lydia Martin (Holland Roden).
The Younger and the Stressed airs on CBS weekdays at 12:30 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Lanae Brody
