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“I’m very grateful to you for introducing that complication to the character,” Ford told co-creator Bill Lawrence at a Shrinking panel on Sunday. “Because that makes the difference between what I’ve done my whole career and the change now that doing this work means in people’s sense of who I am. And I am glad to come to the point where this is who I am, and that was who I was.”
Ford added, “This is nurturing for me as an actor. And I feel the effect; it’s changed the way people relate to me on the street. And that feels like the roundness of a life.”
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Ford shared that he’s also grateful for Michael J. Fox, who guest-starred in season 3 as Paul’s new friend Gerry, a fellow Parkinson’s patient. Fox previously starred in Lawrence’s ’90s sitcom Spin City, before departing the series to deal with the increasing symptoms from his real-life Parkinson’s diagnosis.
“He is an incredibly thoughtful, compassionate, wise, gentle person, with great power,” Ford said of Fox. “He’s been very generous in extending friendship to me. I really didn’t know him, so I was a little nervous about meeting him. But he was so generous and kind to me that it gave me a degree of confidence, which is all you have to work with.”
Despite a finale that had viewers panicked about Ford’s Shrinking future, Lawrence insists that the actor will be back for a season 4, which will feature a time jump.
