As Stephen Colbert prepares to make his Elsbeth debut this weekend, Carrie Preston thinks he has a bright onscreen future, despite recent events.

The Emmy-winning actress raved the late-night host is “such a great actor” after working with him on the Season 3 premiere ‘Yes, And…’, airing Sunday at 9/8c on CBS , following the shocking cancellation of The Late Show .

“It was really serendipitous because for months and months we had been working to get these actors on the show. [Executive producer] Jonathan Tolins wrote the script specifically for Stephen Colbert,” she told Us Weekly . “Then the week before we were about to start filming, it was announced that his show was done.”

Preston admitted the team was “very nervous” working with Colbert when his meta casting as

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