EXCLUSIVE: Michael J. Fox, winner five times at the EMMY, is like playing with a major role with the guests in the next third season of the COMEDY series of Apple TV + Contractionsurmounted by Jason Segel and Harrison Ford.
The details on the role are kept under the wraps, but it can be linked to the character arc of the therapist of Ford Paul Rhoades. It was revealed at the end of season 1 that Paul A Parkinson’s, a disease that Fox has been fighting for three and a half decades.
This marks a meeting for Fox and Contraction Co-creator / Executive producer Bill Lawrence. Fox titled the first series of Lawrence as a creator, Spin cityFor four seasons before leaving when its symptoms have become more serious. Comedy ABC won Fox its fifth Emmy Award; He had won four to Family ties.
Since then, Fox has been the star of The Michael J. Fox Show and has happened again on series such as tThe good wife, Lawrence’s scrubs, Sauve and Boston Legal, brake your enthusiasm And Designated survivorwinning eight other nominations at Emmy. This marks his first role as an actor since his reproduction Good woman character on the spin-off The right fight in 2020.
It also marks Fox’s return to Apple after their award -winning documentary partnershipTill: A film by Michael J. Fox.
Co-created by Jason Segel, Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, Contraction Follows the mourning therapist Jimmy (Segel) who is starting to break the rules and tell his customers exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and his ethics, he finds himself making huge tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his. In addition to Segel and Ford, Contraction Stars Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley.
Fox joins Fellow Contraction The additions of season 3 have Jeff Daniels additions, who will invite the role of Jimmy’s father, Sherry Cola and Isabella Gomez.
The Emmy and Sag Nomined Contraction is produced for Apple TV + by Warner Bros. Television, where Lawrence and Goldstein are under global agreements, and Doozer Productions de Lawrence. Lawrence, Segel, Goldstein, Neil Goldman, James Ponsoldt, Jeff Ingold, Liza Katzer, Randall Winston, Rachna Fruchbom and Brian Gallivan serve as executive producers of season 2. Ashley Nicole Black and Bill Posley join executive producers in season 3.
Fox recently received an honorary academy award and the presidential freedom of freedom. In 2000, he launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research, which has become the main organization of Parkinson in the world, with more than 2.5 billion dollars collected to date for better treatments and a path to healing. Fox, who is also the author of four successful books, is replaced by UTA.
