Working with wife Christa Miller There are some advantages to Bill Lawrence But there are also some disadvantages - like watching her kiss other men.

"I don't like it at all," Lawrence, 55, said exclusively our weekly Thursday, Dec. 12, at PaleLive's An Evening of Shrinking program at the WGA Theater.

Despite it being "upsetting" for Lawrence at times, the couple finds humor in the off-screen situation that helps ease the awkwardness. That approach has recently worked for Lawrence current show shrinkWhere Miller is married to her screen husband Ted McGinley.

"We (joke), because I personally felt betrayed," Lawrence quipped. “Because in the writers' room we joke that Ted McGinley is playing me and then when bad things happen and she's not respecting her husband — I take it personally. Even though I am involved in writing.”

Lawrence and Miller, 60, have collaborated many times since marrying in 1999. Miller, who shares Charlotte, 24, William, 21 and Henry, 18, with her husband, appeared. Lawrence project scrub, Clone High, Cougar Town And shrink.

“Bill definitely sets the tone (on set). Any show I've worked on with Bill — from the cast and crew — Bill has no policy. I know other people like to go along with it and say it, but Bill really has it," Miller said The Hollywood Reporter In 2023. “And a lot of the crew that I've worked with for many, many years. Bill's crew consists of people he works with all the time. I feel very safe on his sets."

Miller gushed over Lawrence's dedication to making each set a fun workplace environment.

"Bill creates a situation - and (shrink co-creator and star) Jason (Segel) It also does — where they try to say something that's going to embarrass you and we don't have to use it,” he recalls. "When you've done it a few times and you know that if you try something and it doesn't work, nothing bad will happen, you can give up."

shrinkwhich premiered in 2023, Segel stars as a grieving therapist Named Jimmy who decides to become heavily involved in the lives of his patients as he mourns the death of his wife and learns to parent as a single father. Miller's character, meanwhile, is Jimmy's next-door neighbor who often gets involved in his life.

"My wife in real life is a little worse than her character, so it was funny," Lawrence joked our Before clarifying on Thursday, “No. He is very respectful and he is very quiet. Many guys can't tell their spouse what to wear and what to say. So the fact that I do it makes it more tolerable and I'm not wearing a dress that I chose for myself and I'm not allowed to make any decisions in my real life."

Time to discuss shrinkIts success, Lawrence explained How the hit Apple TV+ series Balances light-hearted storylines with more serious topics such as mental health.

“The great thing is, we've got so many great writers and performers. We try really hard to make calls from real-life stories," he shared our. "(the creator) Brett (Goldstein) Tells you - and Jason - how the show's central premise is lifted from a true story."

Lawrence added: "So I think when you're talking, Brett and I, to family members who have Parkinson's or who have dealt with the grief of losing someone in their family, when you start with that fact, you're more likely to do stupid things and expand. It's allowed to happen. Look, all I do is steal people's lives from around."

Its new episode shrink Premieres every Wednesday on Apple TV+.

With reporting by Lanae Brody