When Mandy Patinkin was first handed a list of potential storylines for the television comedy “Seasoned,” in which he co-stars with wife Kathryn Grody, he was a little taken aback.

“‘This is completely out of the box,’” he remembers thinking. “‘This is the most original thing I think maybe I’ve ever seen. I don’t think I can do this.’”

But then his son, Gideon Grody-Patinkin, one of the co-writers on the project, had a way to convince him he was up to the task. On a video call with Grody, Grody-Patinkin, and director Ewen Wright, Patinkin explains that Grody-Patinkin reminded him that he’s always playing intense, dark roles like his Emmy-nominated stint on “Homeland.”

“‘You always say you want a break from it,’” Patinkin recalls his offspring saying. “‘This is just you. Just be you. J

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