THIS icon inspired Harrison Ford’s tear jerking journey in ‘Shrinking’

Harrison Ford’s emotional journey in Shrinking is inspired in part by icon Michael J. Fox.

Shrinking creators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein also have deep knowledge of the disease as their fathers are inflicted with it.

“It’s cool to get to write about things you care about now,” Lawrence told People. “And Michael J. Fox is my first mentor. So we wanted to represent it in hopefully an inspiring and not sad or tragic way.”

“I found the first mentor in my life and career, Michael J. Fox, to be so inspiring with the way he took it in stride and continues to work harder than anybody I know. And we want to kind of carry that spirit if we can into the show.”

“It takes you a while as a writer to realize what your voice is — I think mine is hopeful and optimistic by nature,” he reflected.

“I suck in the inspiring people around me, and I steal from them as much as I possibly can,” he confessed, and noted that the Back to the Future actor is one such person.

Regarding Ford’s Dr. Paul Rhoades’ eventual death in the show, the Scrubs creator said: “I’m saying this honestly, we’re just now writing a third season. I don’t know if I could stomach having to see that, and I haven’t decided yet,” said Lawrence.

“I will tell you this: what we really care about, Brett and me, both with our family connections to Parkinson’s, is an accurate and inspiring representation of what people that have to deal with that s— go through, and what it means moving forward. I think that will be touching and hard to watch, and if I knew where it ended, I wouldn’t tell you, but I can be honest and say I don’t know where it ends yet,” he added.

In Shrinking, Harrison Ford plays Dr. Paul Rhoades, fellow therapist and mentor to lead star Jason Segel’s Jimmy Laird.