LOS ANGELES – Mike and Vanessa Baxter are engaged in dining table banter in a scene from Fox’s revived “Last Man Standing” (Friday, 8 EDT/PDT), but between takes, the actors continue the comedy. .
Tim Allen, who plays Mike, cracks jokes and chats with crew about his Detroit Lions. Travis, who plays Mike’s wife, Vanessa, goes faux put-upon at one point, saying, “I can’t work like this.”
Allen jumps at the opening. “Dig deep. Go back to NYU,” where Travis studied theater, he says. “Breathe in the subway smells.”
The playful barbs sound like a conversation a real married couple might have. But the relaxed vibe belies the topsy-turvy events that got them back 18 months later, to their original soundstage, which features the Baxter’s Denver home and the Outdoor Man sporting-goods store where Mike is an executive.
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