Ted Danson, who stars in Netflix's new series 'A Man on the Inside', opens up to PEOPLE in this week's issue about why he's confident he and wife Mary Steenburgen wouldn't have worked out had they met earlier in life.

Ted Danson expressed how grateful he is for meeting his wife Mary Steenburgen in his 40s. In an exclusive interview with People, The Good Place alum claimed that the couple never would have

"I was not really fully emotionally baked until shortly before I met Mary," Ted Danson, who married Mary Steenburgen in 1995, said.

Ted Danson "wasn't fully emotionally baked" before he met his wife. The 76-year-old actor married actress Mary Steenburgen, 71, in 1995 - two years after they struck up a relationship on the set of 'Pontiac Moon' - but insisted that things would not have developed properly had they met any earlier.