Michael J. Fox Explains Why He'd ‘Absolutely’ Return for “Shrinking” Season 4 (Exclusive)

Chris BarillaThu, April 16, 2026 at 7:20 PM UTC

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Michael J. Fox attends A Country Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson's on April 15, 2026Credit: Tibrina Hobson/Getty -

Michael J. Fox is down to return to Shrinking for its next season

Fox shared with PEOPLE how working on the comedy allowed him to authentically portray Parkinson’s

The actor’s role on Shrinking marked his first major on-screen appearance since The Good Fight six years prior

Michael J. Fox is ready to answer the call for Shrinking season 4.

While attending A Country Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's in Nashville on Wednesday, April 15, Fox told PEOPLE that he'll always find time for the Apple TV series that's shown him so much love.

"Oh, absolutely. Absolutely," the actor, 64, says of his potential return. "I love Bill [Lawrence] and I'm so happy it's a success. And it's such a great time being with those actors."

He adds, "It's so important to me to have that to go to. And I would absolutely do that in a heartbeat,"

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Michael J. Fox in 'Shrinking'Credit: Apple TV

Speaking more about his experience alongside Harrison Ford on the series, Fox adds, "The reaction to Shrinking, we really seem to have a lot of investment in it, investment in learning about the disease and [what a] powerful actor Harrison is, the focus of it. The chance to work with him. And like I always say, Harrison ... I don't have to make Harrison believe I have Parkinson's. He has to make me believe he has Parkinson's."

"And he does. He's brilliant," Fox says. "And the way he sees the world in the same way that I see the world. It's very difficult when you present a different world than you feel. I don't know I'm shaking. I don't know I'm falling. I don't know I'm stumbling. You know it, but I don't know it. It's just normal stuff to me."

Fox's appearance on Shrinking comes six years after his last major on-screen role on The Good Fight. The latest season of Shrinking premiered on Jan. 28 and finds Fox take on the role of a patient navigating Parkinson’s disease named Gerry. Fox's character quickly befriends Ford’s character, Dr. Paul Rhoades, a therapist also navigating Parkinson's.

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Bill Lawrence; Michael J. FoxCredit: Tibrina Hobson/Getty;Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty

Fox revealed his reaction to learning series creator Lawrence (who he previously worked alongside on Spin City) made a show that spotlighted Parkinson's patients while speaking with PEOPLE in 2025. "I said, 'You did a show about Parkinson’s, and you didn’t call me?' And he said, 'Oh, you want to do it?' And I said, ‘I’d love to do it,'" he said at the time. "So he said, 'Let me think about it, see what I can do.' So he went to work on it and came up with this concept, it's really good."

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Fox also shared that his experiences on the set, as a result of the implied understanding of his condition and its relation to his new character, were all positive. "It was the first time ever I got to show up on set and I didn’t have to worry about am I too tired or coughing or anything," he said. "I just do it. It was really good, because for the moments when I say, 'I’m not going to be able to do this.' Then I say, 'Well, I’ll just deal with how I can’t do it in the scene.' And you get through it."

"I take great pride in being a person that continually takes him out of retirement," Lawrence told PEOPLE of working with Fox on multiple occasions, noting that "he retired and then he came back and did Scrubs."

Lawrence jokingly told The Hollywood Reporter amid the season 3 finale in April that Fox "made the mistake of saying he enjoyed it," meaning he'll "definitely be back."

"All my shows are about mentorship in some way. Mike was one of my first mentors professionally in Hollywood. He was so great to me when I was a kid. I should not have been running that show [Spin City]. I was way too young, and he was respectful and awesome," Lawrence said. "So to have him back in my world, and as such an inspiring, optimistic, hopeful guy for how he’s navigating this? Not only is it what I need and cherish personally, because I love to know him so much, but I find that it’s so authentic that it makes a lot of the stories we’re telling and that part of the show really work."

Shrinking is available to stream on Apple TV.

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