Having a well-known mum or dad doesn't simply include advantages — it additionally has a couple of dangers.

Mary Steenburgen's son, filmmaker and fellow actor Charlie McDowell, realized this the exhausting method. On Wednesday's episode of Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Steenburgen's husband Ted Danson recounted the mildly traumatic incident.

"Mary did a movie, Melvin and Howard, and he or she received the Academy Award for it," Danson started, explaining that the actress starred as a dancer. "And he or she has a scene the place she's buck bare — it's sensible and it's fantastic. Charlie, her son, when he was 15 possibly, he and his buddies are simply [on a] Friday evening bored and flipping round."

He continued, "[Charlie] goes out to go get a sandwich and comes again into the room. His buddy had innocently landed on that scene."

Evidently, McDowell didn’t reply nicely to seeing his mom dancing bare on his buddy's TV, and instantly unleashed these emotions on his pal.

"Charlie walked again in and simply reamed him out," Danson shared. "He was so indignant: 'That's my mother. What are you doing?!'"

McDowell isn't the one one doing his finest to keep away from scandalous scenes involving his family members. Danson's visitor on the current pod was Kathryn Hahn, who shared that her personal teenage son continues to be avoiding her period of raunchy comedies.

"He definitely can't see any of the films from that exact chapter," Hahn shared. "He could be devastatingly embarrassed."

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She defined that whereas he's undoubtedly sufficiently old to see R-rated content material — and has in all probability "seen far worse" than she realizes — it might be completely totally different to see his mother in such conditions.

"Simply the considered his mother in a film like that or a number of the different issues I've finished is understandably a nightmare," she continued, referencing her risqué Step Brothers scene. "The primary time I confirmed it to [my kids], my husband and I fast-forwarded a lot of it that I believe they noticed a 17-minute film."

Danson had his personal story to share, recalling his mom's response to his function in Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 erotic thriller, Physique Warmth.

Holding his arms in entrance of his eyes, Danson mentioned, "That's how my mom watched Physique Warmth. I wasn't along with her, however folks instructed me she had her arms in entrance of her eyes your complete time."

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Steenburgen and Danson married in 1995, becoming a member of their households, which included her two children from her marriage to actor Malcolm McDowell, and Danson's two children from his marriage to producer Cassandra Coates.

Watch Danson recount McDowell's embarrassment above.

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