The couple have been married for 25 years and previously appeared as on-screen spouses in ‘Person of Interest’

Even though Elsbeth has just wrapped up its first season, star Carrie Preston is already thinking about future episodes.

In an interview with TV Insider after the Elsbeth season 1 finale, Preston, 56, shared her dream guest stars for the police procedural show — and one of them is her husband of 25 years, Michael Emerson.

“We’re hoping that he’ll come to the Elsbeth world now that he’s done with [Robert and Michelle] King’s other show Evil,” the True Blood star said. “That would be wonderful.”

Preston has a few ideas for the Saw actor’s role: “It would be fun to see Michael not be a murderer or someone evil. It would be fun to see him maybe even be a part of the police department.”

Although the casting decisions are out of her hands, Preston said, “I’ll take him in any role that I can get him in.”

At the CBS fall schedule celebration earlier this month, Preston said, “Because I have to go back to New York and be in the same house with him, I’m going to say my husband Michael Emerson.”

“Not only because he’s my husband,” she continued, adding, “but because he’s a brilliant actor.”

The duo, who got married in 1998, aren’t strangers to acting opposite each other. They portrayed on-screen lovers in the sci-fi drama Person of Interest between 2011 and 2016. On the couple’s 25th anniversary in September 2023, Preston shared a throwback photo on Facebook of the pair during their wedding. 

“25 years ago today, these two babies got married! Still smiling over here, y’all…,” she captioned the image.

In March, Preston shared the secret of her and Emerson’s enduring marriage. Because the two have to be apart often for work, they “really appreciate the time” they manage to carve out for each other. She also admitted that the distance “keeps things fresh” in their relationship.

“I do think there is something to the old adage, ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder.’ I really do think that is true,” she said.

When they do have the opportunity to reunite, Emerson surprises The Good Wife actress with his romantic gestures. She recalled the Lost actor gifting her a bouquet of her favorite flowers in celebration of how “hard” she had worked on Elsbeth. One morning, he prepared a homemade breakfast for his wife on her day off work. 

“That kind of thing is the kind of things that we like to do to surprise each other. It’s the small gestures,” Preston said. “We both have our romantic sides for sure.”

Season 1 of Elsbeth is streaming in full on Paramount+.