Jessica Williams is opening up about what it’s like working with Harrison Ford.
The 36-year-old actress and the 83-year-old actor co-star in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, and they wrapped filming on the upcoming third season about a month ago.
During a recent appearance on Conan O’Brien‘s Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, Jessica recalled one scene that she filmed with Harrison that left her weeping at his acting, when her character wasn’t supposed to.
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“There was a really tender scene that we shot for season three that was just he and I,” the actress said. “And I stayed to like run lines with him while they were setting up the scene, and it was a big scene between our characters.”
Jessica noted how the whole set was super quiet as they were filming this big scene.
“He’s coming into my character’s office and he’s sitting across… and he walks in and he sits, and he does this scene,” she continued. “He was destroying, he was like absolutely destroying the scene in every way. Every single line, he was weeping, he was joyful, he was all of those things, but it was one of those moments where they had to come in and be like, ‘Okay, Jessica, you’re like weeping, so I don’t know if you’d be weeping as the character.’”
“I was like, ‘No, this guy is giving me. This guy is the best. He’s the G.O.A.T.,’” Jessica added. “I’ve seen a lot of great actors, but it was one of those moments where I just felt like, no, this is actually like the greatest living actor and this is someone that I get to work with. But it was like being too close to a fire. It was insane, and I work with him all the time… I was getting chills while he was doing it.”
“What did I get to do in my life to be here to work with this guy? It’s insane. It was surreal. It was lit.”
If you missed it, find out which stars are joining the cast of Shrinking season three.
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