When it comes to acting, Reba McEntire and her boyfriend Rex Linn couldn’t be more different.

During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday, May 13, the 70-year-old country star opened up about season two of her NBC show Happy’s Place — and what it’s like starring alongside her boyfriend of five years.

“He is probably the sane one in the group. On the Reba show, I was the voice of reason, and now he is. So I get to be in the whirlwind of chaotic stuff,” McEntire said of his character, Emmett.

When asked if they have the same approach to acting, the “Fancy” singer was quick to shake her head “no.”

“Who takes it more seriously?” asked host Seth Meyers.

Rex Linn and Reba McEntire in May 2025.Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via Getty

McEntire responded: “He does. Rex is a stickler on rehearsals. So we’ll wake up… every morning we have ‘Coffee Camp.’ And so, I’ll go get the coffee, and he’s got a script. I’m like, ‘Can we have coffee first?’”

She then imitated him and said, “Gotta get to rehearsing right now!”

Still, McEntire clarified that she’s OK with it because Linn, 68, is a “good guy,” and “I like him a lot.”

McEntire first met Linn while starring in a Kenny Rogers film together in the 1990s. However, their relationship did not turn romantic until 2020. They reconnected after the death of her mother and grew closer during quarantine.

Rex Linn and Reba McEntire in May 2025.John Shearer/Getty

Ahead of the 2025 ACM Awards, which she hosted, she told Fox News that she and Linn “get along in every aspect.”

“He’s a better cook than I am, so I like that, for sure. We love Longhorns, we love the cowboy way of life, cowgirl way of life, and we both got into the entertainment industry,” she continued. “He’s an actor. I’m a singer. I love to act. Now we act together.”

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She went on to call their relationship the “perfect union,” adding, “We get along great. We do argue now. We argue a lot, but we have fun doing that too.”

In addition to Happy’s Place and the Rogers film, McEntire and Linn reconnected on the set of Young Sheldon and then went on to costar in the Lifetime original movie The Hammer. In 2022, they played a married couple, Buck and Sunny Barnes, on the third season of ABC’s Big Sky.

In October, Linn told PEOPLE that they’re “running lines constantly” for Happy’s Place.

“But every once in a while, I’ll sneak by for a quick kiss, just a peck on the cheek and keep on moving. It’s fun,” he said.