Jason Ritter of Matlock is excited about the support of wife Melanie Lynskey

Jason Ritter And Melanie Lynskey are each other’s biggest fans.

“She was so excited about it Matlock. You know, she sees all my auditions,” Ritter, 44, shared exclusively We weekly at CBS’ Summer TCA 2024 in Pasadena, California on Saturday, July 13. “She’s my scene partner, the best scene partner you could ever imagine. When she read this [script]she was immediately enthusiastic.”

Ritter plays Julian through Matlockthe restarted legal procedure also plays the leading role Kathy Bates And Beau Bruggen.

“[Melanie] said, ‘Oh my God, this is so good,'” Ritter recalled Saturday about the first time Lynskey, 47, helped him with his audition. “And when she saw the pilot episode, she was hooked. She’s already a fan of the show, which is exciting. Now she doesn’t want to contact me because she doesn’t want to know what’s going to happen. She wants to be surprised.”

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When Ritter booked Matlock, he was excited to work with Bates, 76, for the first time. Lynskey already knew the legendary actress personally.

“It’s so great to, you know, be on the same set with Kathy. I had never met her before,” Ritter recalled to reporters on Saturday. “I knew Melanie and Kathy had known each other for a while because they had the same manager when Melanie first moved here and Kathy is clearly the gold standard for the kind of career Melanie wanted.”

According to Ritter, Bates is “this woman who can do everything in everything and play all these different roles,” which… Yellow jackets star hopes to emulate in her own acting career.

“They had a great relationship and it was really exciting when I got to work with her,” Ritter said, adding that he was “so nervous” to perform alongside Bates. “You build up an idea of ​​someone in your head and then, you know, you get nervous, because you’ve created such a status about someone in your head. If they are mean to you, what do you do? It’s harder to think about, ‘Well, if she said that [this], I would say this.’ You say, “I think I’ll just sit back and go, I’m so sorry.” This must be my fault somehow. ”

Matlock will premiere this fall on CBS.

With reporting by Mariel Turner