Sometimes the only way for married actors to have time together is to work together.
Spouses Johnathon Schaech (“That Thing You Do!”) and Christina Applegate (“Married … With Children”) star in “James Patterson’s Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas,” CBS’ new adaptation of the emotional best seller.
Airing Sunday, the drama casts Schaech as an author whose romance with a book editor (Kathleen Rose Perkins) is clouded by his relationship with his first true love, Suzanne … explained in a diary she wrote.
Schaech recalls that after “Friends” Emmy winner Applegate was approached about the project, “She asked me if I thought the script was good. I read it and said, ‘Yeah. I do.’ About a week later, she said, ‘What would you think about playing the lead role?’ I said, ‘That would be great, but they didn’t ask me.’ It wound up that they thought it was a great idea, and they made me an offer.”
A big appeal for the couple was that “Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas” would be filmed just before Applegate began a stage revival of the musical “Sweet Charity” in such cities as Chicago and Boston before heading to Broadway for an April opening.
Birth date: Sept. 10, 1969.
Hometown:
Edgewood, Md.
Current residence:
Los Angeles.
Other TV credits:
“Judas,” “Blood Crime,” “Time of Your Life,” “Houdini,” “They Shoot Divas, Don’t They?”
Movie credits:
“The Sweetest Thing,” “How to Make an American Quilt,” “Hush.”
