According to The Hollywood Reporter, as the third season of Apple TV’s Shrinking comes to an end, the cast and creatives behind the series united at PaleyFest LA to celebrate the finale and tease what is to come from the next instalment. Creator Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Ted Lasso) has said these first three seasons are a closed arc; the new season will feature a time jump and “a completely different story.”
As per The Hollywood Reporter, star and co-creator Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother, The Muppets) stated that he hopes his character, Jimmy, can open up more and finally enjoy himself in the new instalment. Especially after being in emotional trenches throughout the first three seasons before finally pursuing his love interest.
“Maybe it’s time for Jimmy to try to have some fun,” Segel mused to THR on the red carpet. “We’ve seen Jimmy going through it, but it’s been with an emotional twisted ankle. We need to see him run a little bit and break out.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Segel shared that he was brought out of him during the series over the past several years. He said, “every time I do a scene with Lukita Maxwell, who plays my daughter, I start to tear up. I think it’s just because I’ve been tuned to think of her as my daughter and we’ve been through a lot together in the show and I’ve watched her grow up as a human being. I think she was 22 when we started the show and she’s a grown-up now, so all these scenes about me being proud of her are how I really feel about her.”
As per The Hollywood Reporter, star Christa Miller (Clone High, Cougar Town) stated that she felt overwhelmed while preparing for a scene in which her character’s husband was preparing for heart surgery. “We had the scene where my husband is in the hospital, and it’s very serious, and when I was rehearsing it in my office before, I kept crying. It was so emotional and I realized that I couldn’t do that in front of my children and my husband,” she explained. “I had to really tamp it down — use my childhood of chaos, because I have that super power of tamping it down. I didn’t want to scare Derek and then I got to let it go with Jason. And it was ugly crying, not cute crying, and I thought, ‘That’s not going to work.’ So it was tricky for me to keep pulling it back.”
Shrinking is available to stream on Apple TV.