Shrinking star Jason Segel reveals that the Apple TV+ series shows an unseen side of Harrison Ford

Shrinking is the second show in which Harrison Ford is part of the main cast, and he has recently been nominated for his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Having played a vast range of characters from 1967 to the present time, Harrison has been primarily known as a film actor. But after playing Jacob Dutton in 1923 and Dr. Paul Rhoades in Shrinking, Ford is gradually becoming popular on television as well.

However, what's interesting is that Ford's Shrinking co-star believes the Apple TV+ series has revealed a side of Harrison Ford that no one had seen before.

Jason Segel on Shrinking, bringing out a different side of Harrison Ford

Shrinking, the Apple TV+ comedy series, follows Jason Segel as Jimmy Laird, a therapist who, after the death of his wife, gets strangely overinvolved in the lives of his patients at the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center. Harrison Ford plays Dr. Paul Rhoades, Laird's colleague and a fellow therapist who has Parkinson's. As Variety reports, Segel spoke about Ford's performance as Dr. Paul Rhoades, saying,

“He could do an absolutely amazing job caring way less,”

“This guy knows his moves, but he’s not content to do his moves. He’s creating a character from scratch.”

He gave the example of a scene from the show's first season, where Ford played a Paul who was high on gummies as he arrived at a party and delivered an exaggerated, humorous dialogue. Ford is known for playing dramatic characters, and while there is no doubt he can master the comedy genre as well, both audiences and Segek were shocked by that scene. Segel said,

“I don’t think anybody knew that Harrison could do that,”

He added,

“There was a moment during that episode when he got a giant laugh from the crew, and he walked by me and he whispered in my ear, ‘I knew I was fucking funny.’”

Segel also added why he still remembers the scene, which was shot a couple of years back, saying,

“I’ve never forgotten it, because it affirmed this idea that I had, that we all have these parts of ourselves that we believe are unknown to others, and we want them to be known. I feel like, as a performer, [comedy] is this little corner of the room that Harrison hadn’t gotten to show yet.”

It is great news that, even at eighty-three years of age, while many actors choose to retire, Ford is still looking for new genres and projects to try. It is interesting how he has created his character in Shrinking, as he told Variety,

''It’s an additive process. One brick goes on another brick; pretty soon you have a house. But if you don’t have a firm foundation, then the whole thing is askew. You’re trying to find that place where you can use your honest experience to represent the ideas and the relationships and the elements of the personality of the character. That’s like being an item in a recipe. You’ve got to know what your job is here — am I the onion or am I the tomato?''

We don't know if Ford will continue experimenting with his career, trying new genres and challenging himself. But if he does, it will surely be a treat for the audience.

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Shrinking season three has wrapped production, and the first two seasons are streaming on Apple TV+.

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