Zosia mamet jokes she and husband evan jonigkeit did 'a lot of gaslighting' while hiding their romance at work

Zosia Mamet admits that she and her husband, Evan Jonigkeit, were guilty of a little manipulation to preserve their romance. While promoting the couple's upcoming Netflix series, _The

Decameron_, on _Today with Hoda and Jenna_ on Tuesday, July 23, Mamet opened up about how they met and why the circumstances of their introduction forced them to keep quiet about their

relationship. Mamet, 36, and Joingkeit, 40, met in 2013 while starring in an off-Broadway play, titled _Really, Really_. But the duo kept their romance from their cast members and

inadvertently "did a lot of gaslighting" to preserve the relationship. "We knew it was something that we felt like was probably going to last and be serious," Mamet

explained. "But you know when you’re in a new relationship? Normally, you get to decide when you bring your family and your friends into it. But when you’re doing a play with seven

other people your age, that’s not the case." Mamet continued, recalling, "And so we were like, ‘Let’s keep it a secret so it can just be for us.’ But meanwhile, everyone was like,

‘You guys are in love with each other.’ And we had to really be like, ‘That is so unprofessional! We would… okay, maybe you would, but I would not!” The_ Girls_ alum acknowledged that the

couple did "a lot of gaslighting" when it came to their cast, adding, "On the back end, we had to be like, ‘We’re really sorry.’ Cause they were like, ‘You guys, you’re just

in love with each other?’ And I’m like, “Pff, I hate him!’" Mamet and Joingkeit couldn't keep up the ruse for long. She revealed that the couple "got caught in a very big

way" when the two lost track of time and were nearly late to a matinee showing. "Our matinees on a Saturday would shift. Sometimes it would be 2, sometimes it would be 3. We

thought we had a 3 pm matinee. I lived in an apartment building at the time that like, for some reason, you’d walk in the door and cell service would disappear," Mamet recalled. The

couple were "having a very chill Saturday morning" that included ordering in and taking a "lovely shower" when they finally checked their phones to "23 missed

calls." "It was like, just escalating messages from our producers, our state managers, our casemates being like, ‘Where are you!?’" she laughed, adding that the moment was

"kind of wonderful." "It was this moment where we were like, ‘Oh, we’re really good under pressure together.’ He was like, ‘I’m going to call the cab, you’re going to do

this.’ And we made it. I think honestly it was one of our earliest curtain. I think we went on stage at 2:08," she said. NEVER MISS A STORY — SIGN UP FOR PEOPLE'S FREE DAILY

NEWSLETTER TO STAY UP-TO-DATE ON THE BEST OF WHAT PEOPLE HAS TO OFFER, FROM CELEBRITY NEWS TO COMPELLING HUMAN INTEREST STORIES. In October 2016, Mamet and Joingkeit got married in a private

ceremony. At the time, Mamet announced the couple's nuptials in a post shared on Instagram. The photo depicted two rubber ducks dressed up in a suit and wedding dress in front of a

sign that read E+Z inside of a heart. "@evanj550 my best friend, my soulmate, my HUSBAND, I love you," she captioned the post. "Here’s to forever and a day.”