Kat Dennings Reveals a very SPECIAL about New Sitcom With Tim Allen, in which explores her character’s relationship with her on-screen father, played by Tim Allen

‘Hopefully We Get Many, Many Seasons’: Kat Dennings Says New Sitcom With Tim Allen Has Endless Potential

Shifting Gears image with Tim Allen and Kat Dennings in a kitchenImage via ABC

Shifting Gears star Kat Dennings is hopeful the brand-new series will be around for a long time. The Thor and WandaVision actor believes the ABC sitcom, which explores her character’s relationship with her on-screen father, played by Tim Allen, has “endless potential.”

In Shifting Gears, Allen portrays Matt Parker, a widower and car restoration shop owner who reluctantly takes in his estranged daughter Riley and her two children. In an interview with Collider, Dennings discussed the dynamic between the pair and its endless potential for comedy. Matt and Riley’s viewpoints on most things are different, and the actor talked about finding a balance as we would in real life with relatives we may not agree with but still love. “That’s the goal. We want to convey this fun, natural, and relatable scenario without it being grating at all,” she said. “That’s a testament to the writing and the directing and knowing when to pull it back and how to play it and things like that.”

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The 2 Broke Girls star continued, “Tim and I have such a fantastic relationship that we can really balance each other out in all these scenes, and we know what to do with them so that it’s still fun. Like you said, we all have a family member or a friend or somebody at work that we just cannot agree with, but we love them anyway. It’s like, ‘Let’s not start this conversation.’ We all have that. It is a very relatable situation and there’s just endless potential for comedy with that kind of thing. Hopefully, we get many, many seasons to do it. That’s what I hope.”

Tim and I have such a fantastic relationship.

Shifting Gears debuted on January 8 to not-so-great reviews, but the show will hopefully get time to find its feet. The series, which has frequent Denning collaborator Michelle Nader (2 Broke Girls, Dollface) as showrunner, also stars Daryl Mitchell as Stitch, Maxwell Simkins as Carter, Barrett Margolis as Georgia, and Jenna Elfman as Eve Drake.

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Kat Dennings’ Riley Character

In another recent interview, Dennings discussed her Shifting Gears character Riley, and the upheaval in life. “She just shows up on his doorstep with her two kids,” she explained. “She’s getting a divorce, and her life is falling apart. She has no money, and she needs to stay with him. So it turns both their lives upside down. [The characters] have such different styles and completely different beliefs.”

“But what’s fun about them is that she is his daughter, and they are exactly the same. So when they butt heads, it’s just very, very funny. Tim’s a really amazing actor, and I’ve told him this to his face, so I’m definitely happy to say it in print,” Dennings added.

Shifting Gears‘ debut episode is streaming on Hulu.

Source: Collider