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like Shrink Season 3 is coming to a close, as the cast and creators behind the popular Apple TV comedy series unite at PaleyFest LA to celebrate the finale and give a sneak peek at what comes next.
What’s next is season 4 that will look very different, as creator Bill Lawrence has talked about these first three seasons being a closed arc; He said the new season will feature a time jump and a “completely different story.” Hollywood Reporter After the end of the third season.
As for star and co-creator Jason Segel, he’s hoping his character Jimmy can open up more and finally have fun in season four, after being in the emotional trenches for the first three seasons of the show and ending the finale by jumping to pursue a romance with Sophie (Cobie Smulders).
“Maybe it’s time for Jimmy to try to have some fun,” Siegel mused. THR On the red carpet. “We’ve seen Jimmy go through it, but he had an emotional sprained ankle. We need to see him run a little bit and get going.”
Shrink It follows a group of friends and therapists, led by Siegel, as they attempt to heal their patients and themselves from their past traumas. The star shared the feelings he’s had over the past several years, saying, “Every time I do a scene with Luketa Maxwell, who plays my daughter, I start crying. I think it’s just because I’ve been conditioned to think of her as my daughter and we’ve been through a lot together on the show and I’ve watched her grow as a person. I think she was 22 when we started the show and she’s an adult now, so all these scenes about me being proud of her is what I really feel about her.”
Many of the actors – along with Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Luke Tenney, Christa Miller, Maxwell, and Ted McGinley – who attended the event – admitted that they felt real emotions while taking on the challenges their characters face. Miller noted that she felt overwhelmed while preparing for the scene in which her character’s husband was preparing for heart surgery.
Meanwhile, Lawrence also confirmed that the entire ensemble will be returning for season four.
“We had a scene with my husband in the hospital, and it was very serious, and when I was rehearsing it in my office before, I kept crying. It was very emotional and I realized I couldn’t do that in front of my kids and my husband,” she explained. “I had to really put it down — use my chaotic childhood, because I had this superpower to put it out. I didn’t want to scare Derek (her character’s husband) and then have to leave it with Jason. And it was ugly crying, not nice crying, and I thought, ‘This isn’t going to work.’ So it was hard for me to keep pulling it back.”
After the carpet, the group took the stage for the PaleyFest panel, where Season 3’s Michael J. Fox made a surprise appearance to answer some questions from his old friend Lawrence.
Fox plays Jerry on the show, a Parkinson’s patient who relates to Ford’s character Paul, who has also been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Fox told the audience what it was like working with the legendary actor.
“What Harrison was so good at in his work on the show was that I didn’t have to prove that I had Parkinson’s. I had it. He had to prove to me that he had Parkinson’s,” Fox said. “He was so wonderful, so good. I looked into his eyes – Parkinson’s is about shaking and movement, but you look into his eyes and see the world the way you see yourself and he nailed it.”
Later, in his gruff manner and sense of humor, Ford gave a frank answer when asked by Lawrence, the panel moderator, how he created his character’s love life.
“I don’t know. And besides I don’t know, I don’t care, in the best way possible. I’ve had so much fun working with you, Bill, that it’s really irresponsible of me to tell you,” Ford joked. “I enjoy the mystery that I am. I’m happy that I don’t know what the next text is going to say or where it’s going to take me. This is like life. This feels like real life, and its complexity.”
