“Do my kids think I’m a cool mom? I think the answer is — hell no,” the 42-year-old former “The Walking Dead” star tells The Post.

“Council of Dads” is an NBC drama following a family of five who lose their dad to cancer. Callies plays the widow, Robin. Before his untimely death, the dying dad appoints three of his friends — Anthony (Clive Standen), Larry (Michael O’Neill), and Dr. Oliver Post (J. August Richards) — to serve as a “council” to meet his family’s fatherly needs.

In the show, Oliver is gay, and J. August Richards, 46, took the opportunity to come out himself. “I knew that I could not portray this gay man honestly without letting you all know that I am a gay man myself,” he said on an recent Instagram live chat with Callies.

“First of all, J. has become one of the most important friends in my life … and i don’t know why, but we were cast to play best friends and we kind of went method,” Callies tells The Post. “I was super excited to interview J. He’d come out to me way before, earlier when we were shooting the pilot, but I had no idea he was going to do it on the [Instagram Live] … He did it with such ease and grace.”

And that’s not the cast’s only real-life connection. Talking to the Post in March, “Vikings” star Clive Standen, 38, said his bad-boy chef character is based off of the late culinary author and world traveler Anthony Bourdain.

Callies tells The Post that since she has an adopted son in real life, and her character has adopted kids on the show, “I think it’s something that all my children can really see themselves in.”

“Council of Dads” returns Thursday for episode 2 at 10 p.m., following the encore of the pilot at 9 p.m. — but the show airs regularly at 8 p.m. on Thursdays.