Nicole Ari Parker with her husband Boris Kodjoe.Photo: Mark Sullivan/BET/Getty
“Everything embarrasses them,” the 48-year-old actor tells PEOPLE in the latest issue. “Just walking out the door embarrasses them, because we have the wrong shoes on, the wrong outfit or whatever. We can’t worry about that. We’ve got to live our life.”
A clip of Kodjoe and Parker, 51, snuggling in an airport departure lounge in December is a perfect example. TheAnd Just Like That…actress shared the footage on Instagram explaining that she and her husband had been in two “different cities for too long.”
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But on Jan. 15, fans will see them share a screen together in Lifetime’s new thriller,Safe Room. Parker stars in the film as Lila Jackson, a widow trying to protect her autistic 14-year-old son Ian (Nik Sanchez) after he witnesses a break-in. The project is Kodjoe’s directorial debut.
Nicole Ari Parker with Nik Sanchez who plays her teenage son in the Lifetime thriller Safe Room.Courtesy of Lifetime
“I knew this was something he really wanted to do and to see him finally doing it was really exciting for me,” says Parker, who met and fell in love with her husband two decades ago when they worked on the Showtime seriesSoul Food.
“It was so good and so normal to us because that’s how we met, working,” Kodjoe says about theSafe Roomexperience. “So, we have this sort of fluidity together on a set and our own secret language that works.”
Boris Kodjoe and wife Nicole Ari Parker on the set of their new Lifetime thriller Safe Room.Courtesy of Lifetime
Despite their career success and hectic schedules, Kodjoe and Parker still find time for romance. “We don’t see each other that much,” says Parker, who shared a clip of them slow dancing and kissing at theAnd Just Like That…premiere after-party on Instagram in December. “We’re always working so, it’s like…” “We save all the spark for when we see each other and then we let it out,” Kodjoe interjects.
Parker adds, “Everything is fast-tracked, every marital spat and every parental issue because we’re all so busy we’re very focused on solutions, and healing and not holding on to things for too long… It’s like, let’s just get to the good place.”
Safe Roompremieres on Lifetime on Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. EST/ 7 p.m. CT.
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source: people.com
