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Shrinking<\/em> stars Jason Segel and Ted McGinley pose scenarios to each other to get their advice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Jessica Williams and Christa Miller team up to serve thoughts on various scenarios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The cast don’t know the scenarios are about their characters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n They might play therapists and friends on TV, but can they give advice like their characters?<\/p>\n Shrinking<\/em><\/a> stars Jason Segel<\/a> and Jessica Williams<\/a>, who play therapists Jimmy and Gaby, and Ted McGinley and Christa Miller, who play Jimmy’s neighbors, Derek and Liz, sat down with Entertainment Weekly<\/em> to see what kind of advice they’d give to people facing various personal problems.<\/p>\n What the cast of the Apple TV series didn’t know in advance is that those problems aren’t real but ones faced by their characters on the comedy.<\/p>\n “My best friend passed away,” Miller reads to Williams. “I’ve gotten even closer to her husband. Would pursuing something with him be a betrayal?”<\/p>\n Perhaps sounding a bit familiar \u2014 such as what happened in episode 6 of season 1 \u2014 Williams has a quick response: “Somebody call a taxi because you’ve got to take that ride.”<\/p>\n It’s McGinley’s turn.<\/p>\n “I’m a healthcare professional who’s crossed ethical lines by forming friendships with clients,” he explains to Segel. “I’m starting to wonder if it’s actually okay.”<\/p>\n “It’s a really interesting thing to find out that this authority figure potentially is just as messy and complicated as we all are,” Segel says, perhaps thinking about how his character Jimmy has allowed a patient, Sean (Luke Tennie), to live with him and his daughter, Alice (Lukita Maxell).<\/p>\n The situation Williams reads to Miller also touches on crossing professional lines.<\/p>\n “I’m a man in my 80s. One of my closest friends is the teen daughter of one of my subordinates at work,” she reads.<\/p>\n McGinley poses the same scenario to Segel, asking the question, “Should I stay friends with him?”<\/p>\n