Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos' son's acting bug appears to be here to stay.
The youngest of the Consuelos bunch, Joaquin, graduated from the University of Michigan last summer, and his first stop post-college was Broadway, appearing on a revival of Death of a Salesman, as a young version of the salesman's eldest son, which opened in April.
His Broadway debut came just as his father also made his own, starring in a revival of Fallen Angels, which also opened in April, and both instantly became smitten.
© Getty ImagesSpeaking with the New York Times for an interview published June 1 about their respective Broadway debuts and bonding over the shared experience, both maintained more Broadway is likely in their future.
"I really enjoyed this, and I'm already mourning it," Joaquin, 23, confessed. "I'm already sad that it's going to be over. And now I want to do everything. I don't want to limit myself."
"I love this. I absolutely love doing this. And as long as I'm here in New York, I would definitely do it again," Mark, who still occasionally acts for the screen, and co-hosts LIVE with Kelly and Mark with his wife Kelly, added.
© Getty ImagesGiving insight into how it has been to share this milestone experience together, Mark noted it "took a couple weeks for us to actually realize we were going to be onstage at the same time," which was "interesting, and odd, and cool."
"He started rehearsals before me, so I leaned on him a little bit. In many ways, he was letting me know how the process worked. And he'd joke around, every step of the way, saying, 'You don't need to be nervous, dad. It's going to be OK!'" he added.
Joaquin himself shared: "It's definitely a father-son experience — it's something we both wanted to do, and we're super lucky to be doing it at the same time," noting: "When we were doing tech rehearsals, that’s a notorious thing, super-complicated and everyone's stressed, and we both took comfort in the fact that we were doing it at the same time."
Sharing the experience also blossomed into plenty of late night, adrenaline-filled talks. "Once we started performances, I would get home, I'd be eating dinner, and you would come home an hour later. Your adrenaline is still pumping from the performance. 'How did it go?' 'Did you mess up?' 'I messed this up!'" Mark shared.
© Kelly Ripa/LIVE with Kelly and Mark"We knew we weren’t going to sleep any time soon, and that was the hardest discipline to learn — how to wind down from a performance. So we're both in the kitchen at the same time, talking," the father-of-three continued, as Joaquin also shared: "We also run into each other at the gym. 'How's the show?' And, 'What are you hitting today?' I'm going to miss it. It is cool — we have so much to talk about."
In addition to Joaquin, Mark, who has been married to his All My Children co-star Kelly Ripa since 1996, is also a dad to son Michael, 29, and daughter Lola, 24.
