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shooting in our usual spots any time soon. Our start date was pushed while producers and the location department scrambled to reorganize and reschedule. We started a month later, hearts still heavy with loss. We would push all our Pasadena exteriors to the end of the schedule and shoot on stage and at the Warner Bros. backlot in the meantime. Shrinking wasn't giving up on Pasadena and Altadena, and the towns wanted us back too, just as soon as they reasonably could. The season would bring us new storylines. Spoilers if you haven't seen it! Brian and Charlie adopted a baby. Paul and Julie get married. Gabby and Derrick 2 get engaged. Alice goes off to college. Jimmy's dips a toe in the dating world. Liz and Derek find out they're going to be young grandparents. All very normal things us humans do, but add a large helping of Bill Lawerence and Brett Goldstein, and you have a damn good show. It's all about the words. Every single one has purpose and was anguished over in the writers' room, so those words had better sound perfect. It's simple enough, in theory. Shrinking is a typical single-camera show with three to four cameras. Our DP is a lovely Australian man named John Brawley, famous for his cool hats and ridiculously cute baby daughter Willa, at whom Harrison Ford loves to make funny faces. Truthfully, Harrison makes funny faces all the time, much to the delight of our full- grown adult crew. There is simply nobody like him. I remember back when I first started a few episodes into Season 2, I leaned over to Kip Kroger, our producer whom I've known since he was a PA, and I was a utility back on Scrubs. As we watched Harrison work the room, I whispered, "Do you ever get used to this?" He laughed, "Nope. Never." One of my most favorite Harrison stories was when he snuck in behind our Utility, Yvette Marxer, and sat on her boom stand, not one foot behind her while she was busy prepping wires for the next Cobie Smulders and Jason Segel sing "A Thousand Years" for episode 307 Misty Conn and Kevin Santy wait to boom the piano scene in the greenbed above set