Shrinking Star Luke Tennie Teases Season 2 Harrison Ford Scenes He's Excited For

The critically acclaimed comedy-drama Shrinking will premiere its second season later this month, over a year after the first season ended. The show follows therapist Jimmy Laird – played by Jason Segel – who begins utilizing questionable methods with his clients following his wife’s death. Alongside Segel, the show stars actors like Harrison Ford, The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams, and Married… with Children’s Ted McGinley.

The series has also brought some newer actors into recurring roles, including Luke Tennie in the part of one of Jimmy’s key patients, Sean. Sean is a young veteran struggling with anger issues when he begins seeing Laird, but their relationship quickly goes past client-patient status after Jimmy allows him to move in. Season 1 saw a lot of growth for Sean, and by the end of the season, the character had even begun a food truck business in partnership with Jimmy’s neighbor Liz (Christa Miller).

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Screen Rant interviewed Luke Tennie to discuss working with Harrison Ford, his character’s new food truck venture, and Sean’s growth in Shrinking season 2.

Luke Tennie Is “So Excited” For Fans To See His Scenes With Harrison Ford

Characters Paul & Sean Will Form A New Dynamic In Shrinking Season 2

Paul (Harrison Ford) yelling at Jimmy (Jason Segel) in Shrinking

Screen Rant: This season we deal with the consequences of Jimmy’s unorthodox approach to therapy. What does that mean for Sean this season?

Luke Tennie: What that means for Sean is Jimmy is doing a little less than Paul. We are going to see Paul step up in a new way in Jimmy’s approach to Sean’s therapy. I think we’re going to see the benefits of teamwork, because it’s looking like Sean is a group project.

I love that we see character dynamics that we didn’t get to explore a ton of in the first season. You get a lot more scenes with Harrison Ford. Can you talk about how Sean and Paul’s relationship evolves this season and just working with Harrison in general?

Luke Tennie: Working with Harrison is great. He’s so funny, and warm, and fun, and he makes really bold and interesting choices. But between Sean and Paul, there’s a bit of a sort of competitive nature in both of them. They’re both pretty straight-laced; we’re not in it for the joke kind of characters, so they’re similar in a lot more ways than Sean and Jimmy are. Sean and Jimmy kind of complete each other, whereas Sean and Paul, there’s a little bit of similarity there, and that’s what I’m so excited for people to see this season.

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We also get to see Sean move towards his goal with the food truck. Can you talk about his relationship with Liz this season and how we see that relationship develop and change?

Luke Tennie: I think Sean thinks the world of Liz. I think he understands that she’s an eccentric character. She has her things, her icks, things that push her, and I think Sean doesn’t care, because he can see straight through all of that and just see the biggest heart.

There’s something about Sean, I think because of his history and his past, he can see the true value of an individual more than anyone else can. He’s seen what it means to be in a life and death scenario, so I don’t think he cares as much whether somebody calls things agates or rocks, he will call them what she asks him to call them.

Speaking of Sean’s past, Sean is forced to kind of confront his past this season. Can you discuss how this affects Sean’s growth?

Luke Tennie: The thing about moving forward by looking at the past is you do have to go there and you do have to revisit it, which means there’s going to be a few steps in the opposite direction than you want to head. We can see in season 1, that Sean doesn’t really like to address the past.

When he feels good, he wants to hang on to that feeling, not realizing how that could be sacrificing more progress. We’re going to see for him what it means to make those sacrifices to continue moving forward.

Forgiveness is a big theme this season. How does that apply to Sean’s storyline and what have you learned about yourself through Sean’s journey in Shrinking ?

Luke Tennie: That quote by anonymous that says, “Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die,” it’s so cliche for us all to acknowledge that forgiveness is for us, not for the other person, but it’s so true. And we are just going to see a true-to-life play by play of how that would happen when you keep sipping that poison expecting for something else to happen.

More About Shrinking Season 2

Shrinking follows a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives…including his own.