{"id":141006,"date":"2024-12-29T20:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T20:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/michael-j-fox-inspired-shrinking-says-bill-lawrence\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T20:01:41","slug":"michael-j-fox-inspired-shrinking-says-bill-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/michael-j-fox-inspired-shrinking-says-bill-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Fox inspired Shrinking, says Bill Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Michael J. Fox<\/a> served as the inspiration for ‘Shrinking’.<\/p>\n

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Michael J. Fox inspired the TV show<\/p>\n

Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of the comedy-drama series, has revealed that the Hollywood star’s journey with Parkinson’s disease served as an inspiration for Harrison Ford’s on-screen character, who is also battling the neurodegenerative disease.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old producer – who previously worked with Micheal on ‘Spin City’ – explained to PEOPLE: “It’s cool to get to write about things you care about now. And Michael J. Fox<\/a> is my first mentor. So we wanted to represent it in hopefully an inspiring and not sad or tragic way.”<\/p>\n

Bill has been amazed by Michael’s handling of the situation, and the third season of the show will focus on the challenges of “living with [Parkinson’s]”.<\/p>\n

He shared: “I found the first mentor in my life and career, Michael J. Fox<\/a>, to be so inspiring with the way he took it in stride and continues to work harder than anybody I know. And we want to kind of carry that spirit if we can into the show.”<\/p>\n

\nBill has never had any hesitations about learning from the people around him.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “I suck in the inspiring people around me, and I steal from them as much as I possibly can.”<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile, Michael previously admitted that his meteoric rise “made no sense” to him.<\/p>\n

\nThe actor – who moved from Canada to the US at the age of 18 – initially struggled to find work in Hollywood, but he shot to international stardom as Marty McFly in the ‘Back to the Future’ franchise.<\/p>\n

\nMichael – who was one of the most sought-after stars in the movie business before he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease – told ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “I was dumpster diving because I knew the grocery store would throw baked goods out. We’d steal jam and peanut butter from the IHOP or Denny’s. It was a tough existence.<\/p>\n

\n“But in a relatively short period of time I was famous and I was the biggest movie star in the world … It was crazy. It made no sense.”<\/p>\n

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29 December 2024 Michael J. Fox served as the inspiration for ‘Shrinking’. Michael J. Fox inspired the TV show Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of the comedy-drama series, has revealed that the Hollywood star’s journey with Parkinson’s disease served as an inspiration for Harrison Ford’s on-screen character, who is also battling the neurodegenerative disease. The 56-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1414],"class_list":{"0":"post-141006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-michael-j-fox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}