In Apple TV+ series Shrinking, Jason Segel stars as Jimmy Laird, a therapist desperately in need of therapy. Following the death of his wife, Jimmy has dissolved into drugs and self-destruction, to…
, Bill Lawrence was inspired by a neighbor’s tragedy, a shocking starting place for a comedy. Why do you think he chose that?: Getting to rock bottom is drama. But rock bottom is actually a pretty funny place. The bad sh*t happened before, and now you’re at this place where even though it seems like the worst place, the only way to go is up when you’re at rock bottom. So, you don’t know it at the time, but it’s actually a very hopeful place to start.
DEADLINE: The whole drama-comedy blend is such British humor to me, where you undercut and never let anything get too funny or too sad.. I saw that movie just as I was getting interested in writing in my teenage years and, [it was] oh, this is the tone of life. It’s like where you’re laughing your way through really tough conversations. That scene between Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter. He basically says, “I’m in love with you.” And she says, “I’m in love with Tom.
DEADLINE: How do you get into a place where you are in the desolation of grief that Jimmy deals with?: I think that probably one of the reasons that I am funny is because I, as a default setting, struggle with happiness. I have a sense of impending doom. And I have to work pretty hard to counter that. I have all of these tools I have to do in the morning so that I feel OK by the time I take on the world. And I think that alone is frustrating and hilarious.
Then I think the things that affected me most were these scenes with Lukita Maxwell, my daughter. That, to me, was the most important storyline in the thing. What I focused on, more than the therapy, more than Jimmy’s own grief that he was dealing with, is repairing this relationship with my daughter. Because that’s the ultimate betrayal that Jimmy has committed. It’s like the film: Yeah.
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