‘Shrinking’ Boss Bill Lawrence on How Season 2 “Wouldn’t Have Worked” Without Brett Goldstein and Wh
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‘Shrinking’ Boss Bill Lawrence on How Season 2 “Wouldn’t Have Worked” Without Brett Goldstein and What Comes Next ✔ P B P
“We really wanted to drive home the point in a hopeful and optimistic show, especially where we’re all at in our own lives right now, the power of forgiveness,” the co-creator shares. “If the season’s about forgiveness, that the simple act of doing it can save you. It can save someone else. It can save relationships. It’s viral by its nature. If it goes from one person, it goes to another.”
In episode eight, we get the first look at Louis’ life before the accident. How did you decide what his life would be like before that happened?
It was huge. We use, in the writers room, the word manipulative as a good word because I think it’s mean if you’re doing it to friends and family. But as a writer, you want to elicit empathy or tears or laughter. You know, it’s a good word. We knew a very manipulative thing to do in that flashback episode was to show that Louis and Jimmy through intercutting and their own past stories were essentially the same people that got their lives ruined by the same accident. So I think that probably confused some people that wanted to hate Louis. That’s why I had to say — I hate saying it because it makes me mad — Brett is so good. It’s been out there that I didn’t want to cast him as Louis, and Jason fought for him. This show wouldn’t have worked this year had Brett Goldstein not been able to do moments, like when you see him kick Meredith Hagner out and how much he’s suffering. If that had not felt completely authentic and hadn’t crushed you, I don’t think the season would have worked.
Below, the co-creator also opens up about the thought process behind not showing the car accident that killed Tia (Lilan Bowden); how Jimmy’s real journey with forgiveness wasn’t actually with Louis but with himself; if he’d be open to Cobie Smulders returning; where Paul’s (Harrison Ford) progressing Parkinson’s disease will take him in the already renewed season three; and more.
When we spoke earlier this season, you had teased that Liz (Christa Miller, who is married in real life to Lawrence) would cheat on Derek (Ted McGinley). Why did you decide to incorporate that into the storyline this season?