Brett Goldstein gives fans insight into his role as Louis and the value of forgiveness in the new season of Shrinking. Season 2 is now streaming https://apple.co/_Shrinking
Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (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.
Shrinking stars Emmy-Award nominee Jason Segel and Multi-Award winner Harrison Ford, and was created by Emmy Award winners Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso”) and Segel. Additional stars include Emmy-Award nominee Christa Miller, Emmy-Award nominee Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, and Ted McGinley.
Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (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.
Shrinking stars Emmy-Award nominee Jason Segel and Multi-Award winner Harrison Ford, and was created by Emmy Award winners Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso”) and Segel. Additional stars include Emmy-Award nominee Christa Miller, Emmy-Award nominee Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, and Ted McGinley.
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00:00♪♪
00:07I came here to apologize.
00:09You did it. You should go.
00:11I would really like...
00:12Get the f... out of here!
00:14Get out of here!
00:15Get the f... out of here!
00:17It really scared me, this part.
00:21It's very different.
00:22It's very, very different from what I can.
00:23♪♪
00:25Brett Goldstein is playing the drunk driver
00:27who killed Jimmy's wife.
00:29♪♪
00:31I was maybe gonna do, like, a small guest role
00:34or something for an episode,
00:36but then we'd written this character of Louis.
00:39Did you get a chance to tell Alice about our visitor?
00:42I can't find the right way in.
00:44Speaking of cars, do you remember what happened
00:45to your mom in one?
00:46Oh, God damn it! God damn it!
00:49What?
00:50And then Jason called me and Bill,
00:51and he was like, why isn't Brett doing this?
00:53You're, like, the first kid in history to get their license
00:55and not have to use the car once.
00:58This is because of a...
00:59Because of Double D.
01:01Who?
01:02Drunk driver.
01:03Oh, you're, like, horrible at nicknames.
01:04It was never sort of part of my plan.
01:06♪♪
01:08Louis is vulnerable, broken, and needs to ask for help,
01:12and Brett is playing it so beautifully.
01:15♪♪
01:18I'm very nervous about joining the cast
01:19because it's a seriously incredible cast,
01:21but then I had my first day with Luke Heater.
01:24Cool sweatshirt.
01:26Do you really not know who I am?
01:27And then I was like, okay, this is gonna be all right.
01:29When I initially read the scene
01:31that's written between Alice and Louis,
01:33I didn't know how I 100% wanted to approach that.
01:38I always hoped I'd get the chance to speak to you someday.
01:40I was never gonna, like, just put myself in Shrinky
01:43because I wanted to.
01:44I had to be worth it and not ruin the show
01:47just because I wanted to play with Harrison Ford.
01:50Quite a litter.
01:52A lot of F-bombs.
01:53Well, it's not to my congresswoman.
01:55It's to my guy who killed my mom.
01:56All the characters are dealing with some version
01:59of needing to forgive or having to forgive themselves.
02:03♪♪