“He never seems to waver in his belief about something,” she said. “When he feels a certain way creatively, he drives toward that goal with such strength and such belief in his idea. And when I was making a show there was so much self-doubt.”

So, Ms. Bee said she sat her husband down one day and asked him “to teach me how to be a man.” How, she asked, can he believe wholeheartedly in his own ideas, even when they’re bad, although she used a saltier adjective.

“And he was, like, ‘Oh sure. You just don’t listen to anybody. You just do the thing, and you block out everybody else.’ And I was like, O.K., I’m going to do that.

“And so I took a shower, and I was like, O.K., was washing my hair and kind of crying. And then I was like, ‘I’m just going to be a man. I’m going to block out everything.’ And then I did that. And I still do that.”