Jason Ritter, Melanie Lynskey.
Jon Kopaloff/Getty ImagesOn karaoke night, Jason Ritter I like to get into his emotions. Childrearing Graduates usually Miley Cyrus As for the song, my wife Melanie Lynskey is nearby, he turns to Queen Beyoncé.
“My favorite karaoke song is ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Miley Cyrus,” Ritter, 44, said. Latest version Us Weeklyavailable in bookstores now. “Or ‘Sandcastles’ Beyoncé If Melanie is there.”
Ritter first met Lynskey, 47, on a movie set more than 10 years ago. Big demandsAfter their romance began, the two filmed two more movies together. Paris is never yours 2014 and intervention 2016.
“We’ve worked together a few times and it’s always been really fun,” Linskey said. We Speaking about working with her husband last year, she said: “But I’d do anything with him. He’s so talented. I love his face. I love looking at his face.”
The couple got engaged in 2017 and had a daughter the following year. Yellow Jackets During the COVID-19 pandemic, she had to work in Canada, but travel restrictions meant Ritter couldn’t cross the border to see her. Their solution? To say yes.
“I was like, ‘I have a kid, what? I can’t go away for six months,’ so I was like, ‘I have to get married tomorrow,'” Linksy told SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show in May 2022. “We got married on the front porch of a little rental house in Atlanta, and we had a beautiful woman come and do the wedding for us, and we had two of our friends come.”
Keep scrolling for 25 things you didn’t know about Ritter, how she spent her date night with Lynskey, and more.
Preview of Ritter’s new show, Matlockwill premiere on September 22nd at 8pm ET on CBS.
1. I am very good at some video games.
2. I used to collect marbles and pennies as a kid, and I still love a good marble.
3. My first job was cooking chicken and beef patties at a Little League field. I learned that chicken can look cooked and white on the outside but still be pink and raw on the inside. I also learned that 100% of people don’t like lightly seared chicken on a sandwich.
4. My first car was a Tonka truck.
5. My favorite item is a hat I’ve had since I was 8. It has a surfer on it and I take it everywhere.
6. My favorite movie is Nights of Cabiria.
7. The actor I looked up to when I was a child was Giulietta Masina, Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix.
8. My other job is as a live streamer for real streams.
9. In school, I was so good at math that it embarrassed my classmates and friends. My brain just loves math.
10. Although going out to eat is my favorite way to spend date night with my wife, ordering takeout and watching TV is just as fun, even if we have to keep pausing the TV so we can have a conversation (which I usually do).
11. My favorite foods are Salt & Straw’s salty, malty, and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
12. The things I always take with me when I leave the house are my shoes, a shirt, and cell phone service.
13. My fondest childhood memory is winning so much hide-and-seek that the babysitter had to leave the park to find my parents, only to tell them she couldn’t find me.
14. What is the best thing about being a father? [my daughter] Experiencing something new for the first time [her] I will overcome my fears and anxieties, laugh together, and share my favorite shows and movies with her.
15. After working together Kathy Bates On MatlockI sometimes think you Should Meet your hero. She’s an incredibly talented and kind person.
16. Empathize [my Gravity Falls character] Dipper Pines is my favorite role that I’ve played because I love solving puzzles, I love my brothers, I have a favorite hat, and I’m a little awkward, and I’m just like him.
17. When one of my best friends and I were going through our parents’ divorce, we discovered that their dads used to listen to “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba. We listened to that song together and laughed a lot. That song is special to me.
18. My go-to Uber Eats order is chicken tikka masala (very spicy), no rice, and roti.
19. I’d love to be in a space thriller that at least has a zero-gravity scene.
20. My favorite karaoke songs are “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus, and “Sandcastles” by Beyonce if Melanie is there.
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21. Best advice my dad gave me[John Ritter]Don’t give too much importance to what other people say or think about you, good or bad (still figuring out what to do about that).
22. My favorite book is Phantom Tollbooth.
23. Binge-watching a show Scavenger Dominance Right now.
24. Hearing Paul McCartneyLyrics from “You know very well that it’s foolish to make your world a little colder and pretend to be calm” [in “Hey Jude”] In middle school, it gave me the freedom to stop trying to be cool and just be my true self…not really.
25. I was hooked Kurt CobainI’ve been listening to Nirvana since I was a teenager, so there’s a big gap in my musical knowledge from around 1992-1998.
