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Alan Alda opens up about his six-decade marriage to wife Arlene and jokes that she “must have contemplated murder” at certain points. He’s been married to the same woman for 60 years and former Vanity Fair veteran Krista Smith had him on her podcast to talk about his marriage. She asks, โDid you ever contemplate divorce in your six-decade marriage?โ That’s when he responds, โNo, but Iโm sure my wife contemplated murder,โ the 83-year-old jokes.
Alda’s most recent acting credit is in Noah Baumbachโs Marriage Story, where he plays the role of a divorce attorney. The film is incredibly raw and emotional, taking a good hard look at all the different aspects of divorce. I’m sure Alda is happy to report, though, that his “marriage story” is nothing quite like that!
Alan Alda’s wife “must have contemplated murder,” he jokes
Alda, while on the podcast, discusses acting while battling Parkinson’s disease. The disease commonly causes its victims to shake and it’s usually completely out of their control. โSometimes I donโt know when Iโm shaking โฆ I came back from an interview, I said to Arlene, โItโs amazing. I must be getting better. [I] didnโt shake at all.โ And then I looked at video, and I didnโt realize I was shaking,โ he explains.
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He does say that โas long as it doesnโt interfere with the audienceโs focus on the scene and the character, itโs just an attribute.โ
Alda continues on by mentioning other actors who had disabilities, yet still made acting work. โLionel Barrymore acted for 15 or 20 years in a wheelchair โฆ all his characters were wheelchair-bound and nobody thought twice about it. Iโm playing Ray Donovanโs psychiatrist on โRay Donovan,โ and when they realized I had Parkinsonโs, they said, โYou mind if we write that into the script?โ โฆ But now Iโm doing scenes where the character Iโm playing has a worse tremor than I have, and I have to fake it.โ
Check out the video below to watch Alan Alda discuss his work with Netflix’s Marriage Story!