Brett Goldstein's Dad Had the Best Reaction to Learning Harrison Ford'sShrinkingCharacter Was Inspired By Him

Mar. 15, 2025

Brett Goldstein.Photo:Neilson Barnard/Getty

Neilson Barnard/Getty

Brett Goldsteinis revealing how his dad felt about having aShrinkingcharacter based on his life.

Ford recently opened up toVanity Fairin October to talk about hiswork in the hit comedy series, revealing what exactly keeps him acting at 82 years old.

“Oh man, I get out of it essential human contact,” theStar Warsalum said when asked what he continues to get out of acting. “I get to imagine with people that have great skill and experience…. It’s fun to work with these people.”

“I always enjoyed humor. I loved jokes. I loved the construction of jokes,” Ford continued. “My father was a joke teller. The wordsmithing and the ideas that lay behind a joke have always interested me. When I was thinking about becoming an actor, I was ambitious for both kinds of work — serious drama and comedy. I found myself doing both and not really distinguishing much between them.”

“I think I think with the same actor’s head about a joke as I do about a serious or emotional scene,” he concluded.

Harrison Ford.Mike Coppola/Getty

Mike Coppola/Getty

Goldstein joined Ford on screen in season 2 ofShrinkingafter staying behind the scenes as a co-creator and writer during season 1. In October, fellow co-creatorJason Segeltold PEOPLE that he wanted Goldstein totake on a darker rolethat differed from his character onTed Lasso.

“Brett’s capable of doing anything,” Segel said, noting how Goldstein’s been closely tied to the project from the beginning. “And I knew secretly that he wanted to play that part and I knew he would kill it.”

Michael Urie shared a similar sentiment in November, telling PEOPLE that he was impressed with Goldstein’s ability to play “a completely different guy” from what he had been doing.

“It’s marketing genius because people know he’s on it but don’t tell them what it is that they play. But anybody who watches the show, I love telling people, ‘Yeah, he’s on it, but you won’t believe who he plays,'” he said, noting that Goldstein’s character is related to “an old story that you do already know and you’re not even thinking of it.”

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source: people.com