Donald Glover shot Mr. and Mrs. Smith the day he got married

Donald Glover’s new series  Mr. and Mrs. Smith revolves around marriage, so it’s only fitting that the actor actually got married while the show was filming.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Atlanta star revealed that he married his longtime partner Michelle White while the new Amazon series was in production — and that he went back to work the same day they tied the knot.

“There was a day where I don’t think we had to be on set until noon or 1, so, I was like, ‘Can we get married today?’” Glover explained. “I got married in the morning. We had a real wedding afterwards, too,” adding that that night, he and White “went to our favorite restaurant and then her parents and my mom were waiting for us at the house.”

Glover didn’t always want to get married, so he explained his change of heart. “I think what happened was, well, number one, I didn’t know what I was getting out of it,” he said. I felt like I knew what she was getting out of it, and I didn’t feel like she was being honest, necessarily, about what she was getting out of it. I was thinking about it in such a silly way, which I see now.”

Ultimately, it seems that the nuptials came out of respect for White’s wishes. “We eventually had an honest talk and she was like, ‘I’m a traditional woman.’ And when she said that, some part of me was like, ‘And I want to help you be that,’” Glover explained. “Whatever she needs me to be, that makes me happy. Especially nowadays, finding trust is so hard, and the fact that we have this and that we can even argue about it and still be like, ‘But I love you’ — I mean, how many people have that?”

Glover said that his changing views on marriage helped influence the show, which he co-created and stars in. “It’s a very romantic thing to be like, ‘Oh, I can be your knight in shining armor and you’re letting me, you’re being vulnerable for me,’ he said. “And we just kept talking about those kinds of things on this show because we were all getting married.”

Mr. and Mrs. Smith is now streaming on Prime Video.

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