2024-05-22
32 分钟Actor Peter Gallagher (Sex, Lies, & Videotape and The O.C.) met his wife, Paula Harwood, over forty years ago in college in a stairwell meet-cute. Since then, they’ve maintained a loving marriage and managed to raise a family while navigating the world of show business. We talked to Peter on his 41st wedding anniversary, and he read us the Modern Love essay “Failing in Marriage Does Not Mean Failing at Marriage” by Joe Blair. Despite the essayist being kicked out of the house by his wife five times, the couple managed to remain married and learn that a relationship can mean trying together and failing together. Reflecting on the essay, Peter gave us his advice for staying the course. Peter Gallagher will be performing on Broadway this fall in Delia Ephron’s play ‘Left on Tenth.’
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Love now and I love stronger than anything.
You feel in love with love.
And I love you more than anything.
There's still love.
Love.
From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
This is modern love.
Recently on the show, we've been celebrating 20 years of the modern Love column, asking some of our favorite people to read essays that they connect to personally.
Today we're closing out our season with actor Peter Gallagher.
Peter got famous mostly playing a particular kind of skeezy, cheating, lying men that was back in the late eighties, early nineties in movies like sex, lies, and videotape and American Beauty.
But if you missed that chapter of Peters career, you might associate him with a totally different kind of character.
To many younger fans, hes Sandy Cohen, the loving devoted dad and husband on the tv show the OC.
And now, having met Peter myself, I am very happy to report that Peter is way more like Sandy than his other roles.
Its just so clear.
He really loves his family.
He showed me his phone background when he came into the studio.
It's a photo of his wife, Paula Harwood from when they first met.
And if you look him up, his Instagram is a total dad.
Instagram full of long captions, bragging about his kids and cute selfies with Paula.