Broadway’s Aaron Lazar on Living With ALS, Filming ‘Countdown’ With Eric Dane and Launching New Podcast

When Broadway star Aaron Lazar was cast for a guest spot on the Amazon MGM series “Countdown,” he wasn’t expecting to bond with star Eric Dane in the way that they did.

“When I met Eric and he shook my hand, I could see and feel something was off,” Lazar tells me. “I asked him what was going on. Eric said to me, ‘I think I have what you have.’”

Lazar was diagnosed with ALS in 2022. When Lazar filmed “Countdown,” it was months before Dane went public with his diagnosis.

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