The Good Place's Ted Danson, Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper ChannelChallengersat 2025 SAG Awards

Mar. 15, 2025

‘The Good Place’ alums Ted Danson (left), Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper.Photo:Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty;Chad Salvador/Shutterstock

Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty;Chad Salvador/Shutterstock

The2025 SAG Awardsmight just be the good place.

“This is important!” Danson, 77, insisted, before revealing fellowGood PlacealumWilliam Jackson Harpersitting next to him at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. “During the clip package — your name is William, right? — William said that you told him that he was your favorite costar.”

Harper, 45, chimed in, “Look man, I’m just telling him what you told me in Paris.”

Danson, who played Good Place architect Michael in the NBC comedy, took offense to that.

“What? Paris? Oh, come on! That was our city,” he said to Bell, 44.

Danson then questioned whether Harper —The Good Place’s ethical and indecisive Chidi — and Bell kissed. In an attempt to quell the fighting, Bell took a seat between Danson and Harper at their table.

‘The Good Place’ stars (from left) Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Ted Danson and D’Arcy Carden.Colleen Hayes/NBC

“This is not a challenge,” she said to her costars.

Then, the score fromChallengersstarted playing.

“Yes, it is,” Danson and Harper said in unison before appearing to go in for a kiss, a reference to the tennis drama starringZendaya,Mike FaistandJosh O’Conner.

Challengersfollows a love triangle between an injured tennis star-turned-coach Tashi Donaldson (Zendaya), her tennis champ husband Art Donaldson (Faist) and his former doubles partner Patrick Zweig (O’Connor), who also dated Tashi before they got married. The final scene of the movie seems to imply that Art and Patrick’s love for one another trumped either of their loves for Tashi — or the game.

‘Challengers’ stars Josh O’Connor (left), Zendaya and Mike Faist at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Challengers’ at Regency Village Theatre on April 16, 2024.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

The Good Placeaired on NBC for four seasons starting in 2016 and featured myriad twists and turns, principally with what the stars thought to be heaven turning out to be hell.

Bell referenced her iconic characters throughout the evening on Feb. 23,opening the SAG Awards on Feb. 23with a parody of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” fromFrozen, in which she voices Princess Anna.

“Do you want to be an actor?” Bell sang as a montage played on screens showing many of the night’s nominees in their earliest roles. “It can be a bumpy ride. Sometimes there’s no stability. Put aside your pride. But everybody started somewhere as we do.”

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