{"id":2372150,"date":"2026-04-14T01:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2372150"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:31:25","slug":"harrison-ford-is-grateful-for-parkinsons-storyline-on-shrinking-its-changed-the-way-people-relate-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/harrison-ford-is-grateful-for-parkinsons-storyline-on-shrinking-its-changed-the-way-people-relate-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Ford is &#8216;grateful&#8217; for Parkinson&#8217;s storyline on \u201cShrinking\u201d: &#8216;It&#8217;s changed the way people relate to me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/harrison-ford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Harrison Ford;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Harrison Ford&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Harrison Ford<\/a> is a pop culture icon, thanks to Indiana Jones and Han Solo. But the 83-year-old actor appreciates for how his public perception has shifted after playing a therapist coping with Parkinson&#8217;s disease on Apple TV&#8217;s <em>Shrinking<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very grateful to you for introducing that complication to the character,&#8221; Ford told co-creator Bill Lawrence at a <em>Shrinking <\/em>panel on Sunday. &#8220;Because that makes the difference between what I&#8217;ve done my whole career and the change now that doing this work means in people&#8217;s sense of who I am. And I am glad to come to the point where this is who I am, and that was who I was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the show&#8217;s recently-concluded third season, Ford&#8217;s character, Dr. Paul Rhoades, comes to grips with his new reality and moving on to the next phase of his life. He says the storyline has impacted his persona and daily interactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ford added, &#8220;This is nurturing for me as an actor. And I feel the effect; it&#8217;s changed the way people relate to me on the street. And that feels like the roundness of a life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox in &#8216;Shrinking&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Robert Voets\/Apple TV<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;EW Dispatch newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong><em>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ford shared that he&#8217;s also grateful for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/michael-j-fox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michael J. Fox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Michael J. Fox&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Michael J. Fox<\/a>, who guest-starred in season 3 as Paul&#8217;s new friend Gerry, a fellow Parkinson&#8217;s patient. Fox previously starred in Lawrence&#8217;s &#8217;90s sitcom<em> Spin City<\/em>, before departing the series to deal with the increasing symptoms from his real-life Parkinson&#8217;s diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He is an incredibly thoughtful, compassionate, wise, gentle person, with great power,&#8221; Ford said of Fox. &#8220;He&#8217;s been very generous in extending friendship to me. I really didn&#8217;t know him, so I was a little nervous about meeting him. But he was so generous and kind to me that it gave me a degree of confidence, which is all you have to work with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite a finale that had viewers panicked about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/is-harrison-ford-leaving-shrinking-11945805\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ford's Shrinking future;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ford'&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ford&#8217;s <em>Shrinking <\/em>future<\/a>, Lawrence insists that the actor will be back for a season 4, which will feature a time jump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/harrison-ford-michael-j-fox-shrinking-parkinsons-11948952\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Entertainment Weekly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrison Ford is a pop culture icon, thanks to Indiana Jones and Han Solo. But the 83-year-old actor appreciates for how his public perception has shifted after playing a therapist coping with Parkinson&#8217;s disease on Apple TV&#8217;s Shrinking. &#8220;I&#8217;m very grateful to you for introducing that complication to the character,&#8221; Ford told co-creator Bill Lawrence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2372151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[343116,347085,352432,34641,436930,347094,347093],"class_list":["post-2372150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bill-lawrence","tag-harrison-ford","tag-indiana-jones","tag-michael-j-fox","tag-parkinson39s-disease","tag-paul-rhoades","tag-shrinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Harrison-Ford-is-grateful-for-Parkinsons-storyline-on-Shrinking-Its.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372150","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=2372150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372152,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372150\/revisions\/2372152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2372151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}