Marilu Henner, who rose to fame in the 1970s starring on the television show “Taxi,” is currently in Canada quarantining with her costar Candace Cameron Bure as they prepare to star in another movie from Hallmark Channel’s “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries” franchise.

The movie they are going to be working on is called Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con a Con, and it is set to be released as part of Hallmark’s “Spring Fling” lineup, which is made up of feel-good films the whole family can enjoy together. In a new interview with Fox News, Henner opened up about working with Bure and reminisced about what it was like to work on “Taxi.”

“Oh, well this is our fourth time quarantining,” Henner said when asked about Bure. “She and I get along really well. We’re very compatible, a well-oiled machine at this point. I saved up all the things I haven’t seen on Netflix and we watch them together. And the house is big enough that we can be on different floors and I can get my 10,000 steps in on a different floor. And she’s on the Peloton. We have a routine down and it all works.”

“We related to each other right away,” she added. “We even have the same birthday, 24 years apart. She had her children very early in life, I had mine very late in life. So my son is only two and a half years older than her oldest daughter. So we related to each other a lot as mothers and actresses, of course. And we get along very well. We cook together, we watch things together, we work out. We have a lot of similarities in terms of temperament, so it makes it easy. ”

When asked what her favorite memory from “Taxi” is, Henner said, “Oh my gosh. Well, first of all, we had a party every Friday and everybody would come. We were like the cool kids in school. And during that time on the Paramount lot, we had ‘Happy Days,’ ‘Laverne & Shirley,’ ‘Bosom Buddies’ with Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. We had ‘Working Stiffs’ with Michael Keaton and Jim Belushi. ‘Mork & Mindy’ with Robin Williams and Pam Dawber.”

“So we were like the cool kids and everybody would come and hang out with us because we had these parties every week,:” she continued. “So those were certainly memorable. And then there were so many great ‘Taxi’ episodes. It was just a great experience. Just so special. It was definitely the golden era of sitcoms.”

As for whether she’s stayed in touch with her “Taxi” costars over the years, Henner said, “We always stayed in touch with each other. We never lost touch… [And with this pandemic], we do a ‘Taxi’ Zoom every two months. We have one coming up pretty soon. We did one in Christmas, one around Valentine’s Day, one for Jim Brooks’ birthday. And he did one for the anniversary of ‘Taxi.’ We just keep having these Zooms. So we’re all very current with one another. And we have a text chain as well. We’re in contact every week. So yeah, I’m very close to those guys.”

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