Chris Traeger’s 150-Year Life Goal

Parks and Recreation co-creator Michael Schur said Chris Traeger’s dream of living to 150 came from his wife, American screenwriter J. J. Philbin. She had read an article saying scientists believed the first human who would live 150 years had already been born, and she felt that idea fit Rob Lowe’s relentlessly healthy character. The detail became one of Chris’s defining traits on the show.

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