Although Season 3 of Shrinking is officially in the can, Harrison Ford doesn’t appear to have fully bid farewell to Dr. Paul Rhoades.
The first-time Emmy nominee gave the cast and crew of the Apple TV+ series a heartfelt sendoff in a video shared by the streaming platform after wrapping the third season, with co-star Jason Segel by his side.
“You guys are the best. The very, very best at what you do and how you do it, and how you make people feel is just fucking amazing,” he told the crowd. “I love this place, I love working with you guys. I hope we can all get back here and do it again.”
Segel, who stars as Jimmy Laird, echoed the sentiment. “Yeah, buddy,” he said, carrying Ford’s jacket.
“I wasn’t talking to you,” Ford quipped, snatching away his coat as he was apparently still in character as Jimmy’s oft-grumpy mentor.
Ford’s wrap speech comes after he celebrated his first Emmy nomination last week at age 83, earning an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nod for his performance in Season 2 of the comedy/drama from Bill Lawrence, Segel and Brett Goldstein.
Ahead of the Season 2 finale in December, which saw Ford’s Dr. Rhoades announce that he’s stopped taking his Parkinson’s meds as they’ve lost their effectiveness, Lawrence told Deadline he’s not sure when or how to approach the character’s eventual death.
“I’m saying this honestly, we’re just now writing a third season. I don’t know if I could stomach having to see that, and I haven’t decided yet,” said Lawrence. “I will tell you this: what we really care about, Brett and me, both with our family connections to Parkinson’s, is an accurate and inspiring representation of what people that have to deal with that s— go through, and what it means moving forward. I think that will be touching and hard to watch, and if I knew where it ended, I wouldn’t tell you, but I can be honest and say I don’t know where it ends yet.”