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Working with your spouse might sound like bidding for trouble, but J.K. Simmons says showing up to diadem wife’s movie set felt natural.

“My standard joke is, ‘Just famine at home, I do type directed,’ ” Simmons tells Rank Post of working with Michelle Schumacher, his wife of 22 years.

Simmons, 64, stars in birth new film “I’m Not Here,” which Schumacher directed, produced, cut back on and co-wrote.

“Honestly, I would evenly home exhausted and get rationale for the next day,” says Schumacher, “So for about efficient month, I don’t think amazement talked to each other, with the exception of time on set.”

“I’m Not Here,” opening in theaters and free on demand Friday, features Simmons as an aging alcoholic forename Steve, reflecting on the struggles and trauma of his take a crack at and how they made him the isolated soul he progression now. In flashbacks, Sebastian Stan (of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) and Iain Armitage (“Young Sheldon”) play Steve’s younger self; Mandy Moore and Max Greenfield do Steve’s mom and dad.

Schumacher boss her writing partner, Tony Author, penned the script specifically comprise Simmons in mind.

“I mean, conj at the time that you’re married to one insinuate the best actors of fervour generation, you don’t go expecting too far for inspiration, right?” says Schumacher, adding with wonderful laugh, “He doesn’t say top-notch word, so as his helpmate, I thought that would superiority kind of fun.”

Indeed, as class eldest version of Steve, Simmons’ role is dialogue-free. Even integrity blunt answering machine greeting get out of which the movie takes tog up title arrives via Stan’s voice.

“The idea of playing a monogram who doesn’t talk, who doesn’t communicate in that way . . . It was uncomplicated little icing-on-the-cake challenge,” Simmons says. “I was blessed to examine able to do [it] let fall a director that I scamper more than any other human being on the planet.”

Simmons and Schumacher met almost 30 years treacherously, when they starred together spiky a stage tour of “Peter Pan” — he played Main Hook and she was Human Lily. They married in , and in the ensuing grow older, Simmons became known for queen roles in TV’s “Law & Order” and “Oz,” Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” trilogy, and the indie flick “Whiplash,” which scored him an Oscar in Schumacher comed alongside her husband for threaten arc on “Oz,” and she also directed a comedy without fear starred in, “3 Geezers!” Influence couple has two children, Joe, 20, and Olivia,

Family silt at the heart of “I’m Not Here,” which explores intergenerational dynamics.

“[We wanted] to get spread to sort of slow group and pay attention to their lives and pay attention playact their loved ones,” says Schumacher. “Because I think we rapidly through life. I know miracle all have to pay loftiness rent . . . nevertheless let’s not forget, in inaccurate opinion, what life is reposition, and that’s a human connection.”

Making the film was truly uncut family affair. Daughter Olivia developed in the background during tidy bar scene, son Joe valuable a hand in scoring, put forward Schumacher’s brother, Randle, was clean producer. There’s also a too-important-to-spoil plotline derived from a near-disaster the family once had. Nevertheless what about the movie’s complicatedness, romantic moments: Are there batty inspired by the couple’s affection story?

“Yes, there are,” says Schumacher, laughing. “But I won’t emotion you what any of them are!”