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Shrinking<\/a><\/i> is back for Season 3<\/a>, and the first episode has already made us feel all the feels.<\/p>\n But aside from the episode’s poignant ending, there’s also a surprise celebrity cameo that has people talking: Back to the Future<\/i> star Michael J. Fox, who pops up in a memorable scene with Harrison Ford.<\/p>\n So who does Fox play, and why is it significant?<\/p>\n At the start of the episode, Paul (Harrison Ford) visits a neurology clinic to discuss the tremors he’s experiencing in his left hand as a result of Parkinson’s disease. While waiting for his appointment, he takes a seat in next to a man who asks him what he’s in for.<\/p>\n “Parkinson’s,” responds Paul. “You?”<\/p>\n “Just a haircut,” comes his reply.<\/p>\n The man, Gerry (Michael J. Fox), goes on to have a conversation with Paul about Parkinson’s disease and the various symptoms<\/a> that can come as it progresses, including changes to speech, postural instability, muscle stiffness, chronic pain, and hallucinations.<\/p>\n “Enough whining,” says Gerry at the end of their chat, shortly before Paul is called in. “I’m still here, so f*** Parkinson’s.”<\/p>\n Paul repeats it back as he follows the doctor. “F*** Parkinson’s.”<\/p>\n The cameo is particularly significant because Michael J. Fox himself has Parkinson’s disease: He was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s in 1991 at the age of 29<\/a>, after noticing a tremor in his finger.<\/p>\n After making his diagnosis public in the late ’90s, Fox launched a foundation<\/a> to spread awareness and raise money for Parkinson’s research. In 2025, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his advocacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fox’s cameo not only packs an emotional punch in Shrinking<\/i>, but it also continues to spread awareness about the various symptoms that the disease entails.<\/p>\n Shrinking<\/a><\/i> Season 3 is now streaming on Apple TV with new episodes Wednesdays.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article contains affiliate links; if you click such a link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission. A man sits at a table eating cake. – Apple TV Shrinking is back for Season 3, and the first episode has already made us feel all the feels. But aside from the episode’s poignant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2256229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[347085,34641,436930,347093],"class_list":["post-2256228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-harrison-ford","tag-michael-j-fox","tag-parkinson39s-disease","tag-shrinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Shrinking-Season-3-episode-1-has-the-perfect-celebrity-cameo.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256230,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256228\/revisions\/2256230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who does Michael J. Fox play in Shrinking<\/i> Season 3?<\/h2>\n
What’s the significance of Fox’s cameo?<\/h2>\n