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 using questionable methods with his clients after his wife’s death. Along with Segel, the show stars actors like Harrison Ford, The Daily Shows Jessica Williams, and Married… with childrenS Ted McGinley.
The series also brought in several new actors in 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 moves past client-patient status after Jimmy allows him to move in. , the character even started a food truck business in partnership with Jimmy’s neighbor Liz (Christa Miller).
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Screen Rant Interviewed Luke Tenney to discuss working with Harrison Ford, his character’s new food truck venture, and Sean’s growth in Shrinking Season 2.
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Screen Rant: This season we’re dealing with the consequences of Jimmy’s unorthodox approach to therapy. What does this mean for Sean this season?
Luke Tenney: What this means for Sean is Jimmy is doing a little less than Paul. We will see Paul step up in a new way in Jimmy’s approach to Sean’s therapy. I think we will see the benefits of teamwork, as it looks like Sean is a group project.
I love that we get to see character dynamics that we didn’t get to explore a lot 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, warm and fun, and he makes really bold and interesting choices. But between Sean and Paul, there’s a little bit of a sort of competitive nature in both of them. They are 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 Shawn and Jimmy are. Sean and Jimmy pretty much each other, even though Sean and Paul, there’s a little bit of a 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 Shawn 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 Tenney: I think Sean means the world to Liz. I think he understands that she is an eccentric character. She has her things, her exes, things that push her, and I think Shawn doesn’t care, because he can see right through all of that and only see the biggest heart.
There’s something about Sean, I think because of his history and his past, he can see the true worth 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 that much whether someone calls things agate or rocks, he’ll call them what she asks him to call them.
Speaking of Sean’s past, Sean is forced to confront his past this season. Can you discuss how this affects Sean’s growth?
Luke Tenney: The thing about moving forward by looking at the past is that you have to go there and you have to revisit it, which means that there will be some steps in the opposite direction of how you want to go. 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 the feeling, not realizing how it could be sacrificing more progress. We will see for him what it means to make the sacrifices to keep moving forward.
Forgiveness is a big theme this season. How does this apply to Sean’s storyline and what have you learned about yourself through Sean’s journey in Shrinking?
Luke Tenney: That quote from Anonymous that says, “Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die,” it’s so cliche for all of us to acknowledge that forgiveness is for us, not for the other person, but it is so true. And we’re just going to see a true-to-life play by play of how that would happen when you keep sipping the poison and expecting something else to happen.
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Shrinking follows a sad therapist who starts breaking the rules and telling his clients exactly what he means. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes in people’s lives…including his own.
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