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Williams says working on the show was fun because of the cast chemistry, and the license to ad lib at times to make scenes funnier felt “very fulfilling.” He plays the character, he disappears into it. “But he’s also a very generous actor and he is part of this ensemble. “He’s as wonderful and amazing as ever,” Goldstein said. Goldstein agrees that Ford never made the cast feel like he needed special treatment. And it’s really inspiring to see someone that’s like over 80 hitting his marks and staying so sharp while also, you know, really caring about the work.” “You just watch him do some takes and … he’s got the glimmer in his eye. And he’s magic to watch, honestly.” Williams said. “He is delightful, charming, nice, giving. She says it took about a week to remain present and get used to his face staring at her. Williams - who plays another therapist - shares witty banter with Ford in many scenes and says it was “surreal” to work with the acting legend she watched in movies as a kid. “His job is to come in and build these scenes and you’re his partner in that.” He was a carpenter and now he’s an actor,” Segel said. “One of the things that’s really cool about Harrison Ford is that he considers himself a tradesman, like a craftsman.
Segel appreciated how Ford “breaks through the awe really quickly so that you can get down to work.”
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“We talked to him a lot about character, and it was so easy that … I feel like I should have had to complete a series of Herculean tasks to get him, you know what I mean?” “He really loved the scripts and related to a lot of the aspects of the character,” Goldstein said. Goldstein - who isn’t acting in this show but serves as another executive producer - describes Ford as “dream casting” and says they still don’t know how they got him. Every scene gets ruined - at least one take - by me or one of the actors in the middle of it going ‘It’s Harrison Ford!’ It’s crazy.” “Everybody’s terrified of … telling him to do anything,” Lawrence said with a laugh. Lawrence calls working with Ford a “career highlight,” and says there’s only one downside.
Ford’s character is a curmudgeonly colleague and mentor who delivers zingers with restrained glee. Segel plays a character whose wife dies suddenly, leaving the father of a teen daughter lost and willing to ignore his ethics to start telling his patients what he really thinks. They had the lofty goal of making a comedy about grief, set it in an office shared by therapists and starring Segel, Ford, Jessica Williams, and Christa Miller. He’s 80 years old and still challenging himself.”įor “Shrinking” - which starts streaming Friday - Lawrence teamed with Segel and writer Brett Goldstein (also Roy Kent in “Ted Lasso” ) to help create and write the show. “If he had not shown up on set, I would not have been shocked,” Lawrence told the Associated Press in a recent interview. He was gobsmacked when the “Indiana Jones” actor liked the story and eventually agreed to play the part of a tough therapist who works with star Jason Segel in a mental health practice. But he decided to take a shot and send Ford the script.
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NEW YORK - When Bill Lawrence was developing his new Apple TV+ comedy ”Shrinking,” he introduced one character in the pilot script as a “Harrison Ford-type” - but never dreamed he would get the real deal.Īlthough the showrunner has had comedy success working with big names and executive-producing hits like “Scrubs,” “Cougar Town” and “Ted Lasso,” nabbing a huge movie star like Ford seemed unrealistic.
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