This husband-and-wife team stars on FX's The League, a comedy about fantasy-league fanatics. They sit down with USA TODAY for a few questions. Q: Why don't you play a couple on the show? Was it just too close to home? Aselton: I had better chemistry with (actor) Steve Rannazzisi. Duplass: That's it! That's it! Aselton: You wanted me to be honest. And I feel we get to do something different than what we did in (the 2005 comedy, which Duplass co-wrote) The Puffy Chair, which was the bickering couple. Duplass: We've done that once. Really, are we always going to play a couple? Do we really think we're that cute? Aselton: I would like to get jobs doing other things that aren't necessarily always with my husband. I'd like to show range – and kiss another guy. Q: Katie, for your sake, I hope Mark isn't as big a sports nut as his character? Duplass: Not even close. This guy, his entire life is basically in ruins except his fantasy football league. I was a huge sports fan in the '80s and '90s. It was the right time to be a sports fan. We've started our own fantasy football league with the cast and the creators of the show. Aselton: It's really art imitating art imitating life. I'm very much like (my character) Jenny in that I'm incredibly competitive even if I don't know what I'm talking about. I will still win. I'm in it to win it. Duplass: You're doing quite well in the league. Aselton: I'm beating Steve Rannazzisi. Q: You sound just as competitive as Jenny! Aselton: Jenny is the kind of girl that married, had a baby, and isn't going to be one of those moms that throws herself totally into her child. She's totally one of the guys, and I think she's more at home with them, talking about football, than she is in a play group. I certainly relate to that, being a mom myself. I get really anxious talking to other mommies about baby things. Duplass: If you call anxious profusely sweating and having heart palpitations. Aselton: I think I'm still a really good mom. I'm just not that mom, and Jenny is not that mom. I feel like I'm very much like my character. Q: And Mark, if you're nothing like (your character) Pete, which of the guys on the show is the most similar to you? Duplass: I'm very similar to Winston Churchill. I think I'm the most similar, in personality, to the guy who plays Katie's husband (Rannazzisi). He has more perspective on the league and what part it plays in his life, but he's not so obsessed that he'll wreck his marriage. It's fun playing Pete. He's extreme. It's his one and only true love. My character's marriage hits the skids and he's launching into the world of being single. I'm at a different life station than Pete. I'm married and have a child. Aselton: And he's ridiculously happy. Duplass: I'm totally happy. But, I have type-A tunnel vision, which Pete shares. When things get uncomfortable, I try to make jokes. Q: You work together and live together. So what's your routine like? Do you ride to work together? Duplass: Sometimes we do. Aselton: On days when we have the same schedule, we usually drive together. Duplass: We also have a 2-year-old daughter, so any hours we're not working, we try to maximize. Aselton: Even if I have one extra scene after him, or the other way around, the other one leaves. Duplass: When there's too many people on set, they ask us if we're willing to share a trailer. Q: Did you bring your daughter with you to New York, or is she back in L.A.? Aselton: We left her in the house. Duplass: (Expletive). Did we leave her? Aselton: I left her in the crib. She can't get out. Duplass: We have a friend who kept having dreams that she sold her child on eBay. We were horrified. And then we had our baby. Aselton: We could get a lot of money. I'd put a high reserve on her. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more