Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Actors Lukita Maxwell, Luke Tennie and Ted McGinley talk in this interview about Shrinking Season 2. Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (played by Jason Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own. The series also stars multi-award winner Harrison Ford and was created by Emmy Award winners Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein and Segel. In addition to Segel and Ford, Shrinking stars Emmy Award nominee Christa Miller, Emmy Award nominee Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley. Goldstein will appear as a special guest star in season two. Shrinking Season 2, now on Apple TV+.
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00:00What do you like the most about playing Alice, Jimmy's daughter, in this season?
00:05She's going to go through very emotional moments, tell me.
00:10My favorite thing about playing Alice is just getting to work with the amazing cast and
00:16crew that we have.
00:18Everybody's so great.
00:19I learn so much from them.
00:20I'm so inspired every day.
00:22And also with the writing.
00:23I'm like, as an actor, so stimulated.
00:25I get lots of good stuff to work with.
00:30How does Jimmy and Alice's father-daughter relationship is going to evolve in this or
00:37change, grow or change in season two?
00:41I think at the beginning of season two, we're seeing Alice worried about Jimmy.
00:47After the end of season one, everything got a little chaotic.
00:51And we know that Jimmy is susceptible to falling back into old habits.
00:58So she's worried that he's going to revert back to those old habits and is kind of hyper
01:05vigilant and making sure that he's okay.
01:07What do you like the most about playing Sean?
01:12It's probably just watching in those big scenes.
01:16Like in the first season, the scene where we meet Pam, the neighbor.
01:23Scenes like that.
01:25If I can just be a fly on the wall for more of those scenes, it just makes me feel so
01:30grateful to be involved in a comedy, you know, to be involved working on set with all these
01:36legends who are trying to bring joy into people's lives.
01:41Those are my favorite.
01:42That, it's probably that.
01:43It's the big days.
01:44Who is working with Jason and the rest of the cast on set?
01:49It's a dream.
01:51It's a dream.
01:52These people are super warm.
01:53They're fun.
01:55We don't shoot for forever either.
01:57Like sometimes I'm out by lunch and I'm like, should I stay and just eat lunch?
02:03You know, like if that's the issue I'm thinking of, works good.
02:08And I'm so grateful.
02:10And for me, the only real responsibility that I feel is to make sure I don't impede that
02:18aura, that energy.
02:19I want to contribute to it.
02:20So I just make sure I'm in the right mentality.
02:23If I ain't get much sleep the night before, I'm not whining about it when I get to work.
02:27If I'm a little hangry, I'm gonna grab me a snack.
02:29They got craft services.
02:31What I'm complaining about, you know?
02:33I just try to keep the energy as warm and gracious as it has been for me every time
02:38I step foot on set.
02:40What attracted you to this project and to Derek, this very, very particular character?
02:48Bill Lawrence.
02:50Bill Lawrence is, he's a master in the art form.
02:54I always tell everybody that, you know, Bill could walk away today and never have to work
02:59again the rest of his life.
03:00And that is so not Bill.
03:02He's a guy who, he, like the rest of us, can't wait to get to work.
03:06He loves it.
03:08And I consider him a genius.
03:10And so Bill Lawrence called me and said, would this be, would you do this for me?
03:15And I was like, are you kidding me?
03:17Thank you so much.
03:19Greatest offer I've ever had.
03:22And then when I got there, I was, you know, I was kind of just the neighbor and it slowly
03:29started to grow and they saw parts of me that they could use and made Derek kind of interesting.
03:39And so it grew and grew and grew and the second season you see a lot more Derek.
03:45And so it's, I mean, that's it.
03:49I would never turn down probably anything Bill asked me.
03:53So on this one, I just lucked out.
03:55What can the audience expect from this new season?
03:59They can expect a wild, wild ride.
04:03There are a lot of surprises.
04:05There's a lot of fun surprises that will, that the audience will say, oh, are you kidding
04:10me?
04:11There will be some actors coming in that, that they will love to see joining the cast.
04:19And this season will be filled with tears, joy, love, pain, guilt, grief.
04:30It is just this soup of life that we all live in every day.
04:35And you will see a little bit of yourself in this show, but you will see hope and you
04:40will see how together we can pull each other out and we can help each other out.
04:47And that's, that's what we're doing.