Brett Goldstein looks back very fondly on one day of his career.
The two-time Emmy winner appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers amid the release of Shrinking season two. During the conversation, he reflected on his time on Sesame Street.
“It was the best day of my life,” the Ted Lasso star told the host. “The problem is you have to continue living afterward.”
Goldstein co-created Shrinking with Jason Segel and Bill Lawrence. The Apple TV+ series follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel), who starts breaking the rules and telling his clients what he actually thinks after his wife’s death. Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Ted McGinley, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie and Lukita Maxwell round out the cast.
The comedian brought his talents to the front of the camera for season two (spoiler alert!), in which he guest stars as Louis, the drunk driver who killed Jimmy’s wife.
“I’m not funny in this one,” Goldstein told Seth Meyers. “It’s a very serious part.”
He recalled the day they filmed his first scene with Segel, in which Jimmy shouts at Louis and “basically tells me to fuck off a lot.”
“I didn’t know how Jason was going to be, so we were friends, but we were separate,” the actor explained. “We did the scene, and he shouted, shout, shout, and it’s really dramatic, but he spat so much on me that between takes, I was staying in it, but the continuity people were like, ‘This is [a lot of fucking] spit. We need to fix this.’”
When helping create the scripts for Shrinking, Goldstein took inspiration from his father, who has Parkinson’s disease, for the character of Paul (Ford).
“It wasn’t something we were going to talk about publicly when we were talking about the show,” he explained. “Then, Bill Lawrence let it slip by accident, and I called my dad, and I was like, ‘Listen, dad, Bill said about you having Parkinson’s, I hope that’s not a problem.’ And my dad said, ‘Are you telling everyone that I’m Harrison Ford?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ And he said, ‘That’s fucking cool.’”
New episodes of Shrinking drop on Apple TV+ every Wednesday until the season two finale on Dec. 25.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
