Shrinking co-creator Bill Lawrence has said the show’s portrayal of Parkinson’s disease was inspired by Michael J. Fox.The second season of the comedy drama show has just completed its run on Apple TV+ and stars Harrison Ford as Dr.
Paul Rhoades, a therapist who has the neurodegenerative disease.Lawrence, who created the show alongside lead star Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), spoke about the influence that the Back To The Future star had in the character’s inception in a live interview with People earlier this month (December 12).“It’s cool to get to write about things you care about now,” Lawrence said. “And Michael J.
Fox is my first mentor. So we wanted to represent it in hopefully an inspiring and not sad or tragic way.”Lawrence and Fox worked together on the show Spin City between 1996 and 2002, and it was in 1998 that the latter publicly confirmed his Parkinson’s diagnosis.
Lawrence’s own father has also been affected by the condition, as has Goldstein’s father.“I found the first mentor in my life and career, Michael J.