Megan Mullally Made Husband Nick Offerman Do 'Kissing Practice' Ahead of Her Hilarious Role as Tammy II onParks & Rec

Mar. 15, 2025

(L-R) Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally on Parks and Recreation.Photo:NBC

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Nick OffermanandMegan Mullallydid some off-screen homework before getting on the set ofParks & Recreation.

“I mean, when they came up with the idea and Megan agreed to do it, she took me out in the backyard for a kissing practice,” Offerman recalled, adding that they performed “violent, disgusting, kissing.”

The duo’s scenes onParks & Recwere often wild and sexually charged. Looking back at filming their first scenes together and how their natural chemistry as husband and wife bled into their onscreen portrayals, Mullally said their “very first scene” involved the fictional exes “desperately trying to get to this motel so that we could like get it on.”

(L-R) Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman on Parks and Recreation.NBC

“I was like, ‘I’m gonna take my bra off’” theWill & Gracealum laughed. “So I took my bra off, and they were like, ‘action!’ So he screeches into this parking lot and I throw my bra out the window of the car. We get out of the car, I slam the doors, run in, and I pulled my sweater off. They had to put like a dark circle to blot out my boob. We ran into the motel and then this guy comes over and he’s like, ‘hi, I’m Troy [Miller], I’m the director.'”

“Great first take,” Offerman, 54, said to which Mullally, 65, added, “And they used it!”

Another scene involved them meeting at a diner and ended with the two “wildly, like, making out on the table.”

“That same day we went to a diner and they, at a certain point, were like, ‘just do whatever you need to do,'” she explained. “So we were like wildly like making out on the table. They had, you know, atmosphere people, as customers, so we were throwing food at people. We asked them first if we could do it!

Mullally continued, “Then Nick, at one point, was so like Ron Swanson, so riled up on testosterone, that we were in a booth at this diner and Nick actually pulled the table out of the wall. The real table! He pulled it out of the wall!”

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“Young people now don’t realize that it actually was never a hit,” theLast of Usactor said. “It was critically well-received but only then later it became a comfort show…We didn’t get awards. In fact, we were almost canceled every year. It was always a question mark.”

Parks & Recreationis now streaming in full on Peacock.

source: people.com