{"id":169220,"date":"2025-05-19T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/a-great-source-of-inspiration-harrison-ford-hails-shrinking-co-star-michael-j-fox\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:01:39","slug":"a-great-source-of-inspiration-harrison-ford-hails-shrinking-co-star-michael-j-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/a-great-source-of-inspiration-harrison-ford-hails-shrinking-co-star-michael-j-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A great source of inspiration&#8217;: Harrison Ford hails Shrinking co-star Michael J. Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-05-19\" datetime=\"1747666899\" pubdate=\"\">19 May 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/harrison-ford\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,harrison-ford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harrison Ford<\/a> claims that Michael J. Fox&#8217;s &#8220;humour and courage&#8221; are evident as he returns to acting in &#8216;Shrinking&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Harrison Ford stars alongside Michael J. Fox in season three of Shrinking<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Back to the Future&#8217; star is acting on screen for the first time since 2020 in the upcoming third season of the Apple TV+ comedy drama and Harrison is full of appreciation for his co-star \u2013 who was diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s disease back in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison, 82, told People: &#8220;His willingness to be part of our show is a great source of inspiration and gives us a real purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just us coming together, two actors. There&#8217;s a story to tell, and our commitment to the story is what joins us together. I appreciate his willingness to be part of the show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;Shrinking&#8217;, the &#8216;Indiana Jones&#8217; legend plays the role of Dr. Paul Rhoades \u2013 a therapist who must navigate his own Parkinson&#8217;s diagnosis \u2013 and revealed that Michael, 63, has informed his portrayal of the condition in a &#8220;subtle&#8221; way.<\/p>\n<p>\nHarrison explained: &#8220;I&#8217;m sure that there are subtle things that will show up later.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;When we were together, it was an accomplishment of all of us trying to meet all the ambitions, both obvious and attendant, to the ideas we&#8217;re trying to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve done what I could to acquaint myself with the aspects of the disease that I&#8217;m portraying, and I&#8217;m at a much different stage of the disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; actor added: &#8220;My character&#8217;s in a much different stage of the disease than Michael&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But Michael, as Bill (Lawrence, series co-creator) points out, is totally there on the intellectual level. And emotionally, his humour and his courage are evident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHarrison recently said that he takes his role in &#8216;Shrinking&#8217; &#8220;deadly f****** seriously&#8221; and feels a huge responsibility to show the reality of life with Parkinson&#8217;s on screen.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;There&#8217;s no intention to make it into a joke, but there are people that absorb these kinds of experiences with grace and courage and a little bit of wisdom. And that is not to say that some people do not.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s just to say that this is a person particularly equipped to communicate what it is that it&#8217;s like, and that is something that I feel that is worth sharing with our audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/great-source-inspiration-harrison-ford-hails-shrinking-star-michael-fox-1419049.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 May 2025 Harrison Ford claims that Michael J. Fox&#8217;s &#8220;humour and courage&#8221; are evident as he returns to acting in &#8216;Shrinking&#8217;. Harrison Ford stars alongside Michael J. Fox in season three of Shrinking The &#8216;Back to the Future&#8217; star is acting on screen for the first time since 2020 in the upcoming third season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11459,238,1414],"class_list":{"0":"post-169220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-bill-lawrence","9":"tag-harrison-ford","10":"tag-michael-j-fox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169220","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=169220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}