Season 3 of Shrinking brought on a major new cast member this year, as Michael J. Fox joined the ensemble to play Gerry, a man who has Parkinson’s and interacts with Harrison Ford’s character Paul. Since day one, Paul has been dealing with the disease Fox has in real life, and now, the Back to the Future star has opened up about why Ford’s portrayal of Paul and Parkinson’s brought him to “tears.”
In the Season 3 premiere of Shrinking, which just premiered on the 2026 TV schedule and is available to stream with an Apple TV subscription, Paul meets Fox’s character Gerry at the doctor’s office. They talk about Parkinson’s, and over the course of the episode, it becomes very clear that this disease is impacting Harrison Ford’s character in a significantly bigger way than it has in past seasons. Speaking to how the Star Wars star portrays what life with Parkinson’s looks like, the Spin City star told Vanity Fair:
