<p id=”par-1_54″>They may have brought the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/apple-tv-plus/”>Apple TV+</a> original series to life—along with showrunner Bill Lawrence—but Jason Segel, who plays Jimmy, a therapist grieving the death of his wife on <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/shrinking-star-ted-mcginley-thinks-derek-character-werent-married-liz.html/”><em>Shrinking</em></a>, wasn’t hanging out with Brett Goldstein on set. Segel didn’t want to look at the <em>Ted Lasso</em> alum because of their characters’ “painful” past. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-goldstein-plays-the-drunk-driver-behind-tia-s-death-in-shrinking-season-2-nbsp”>Goldstein plays the drunk driver behind Tia’s death in ‘Shrinking’ Season 2 </h2>
<p id=”par-2_42″><em>Shrinking</em> Season 1 kept the identity of the drunk driver involved in the fatal crash that killed Jimmy’s wife, Tia (Lilan Bowden), a mystery. All that changed in season 2 when flashbacks finally revealed Goldstein as Louis, or “Double D” (drunk driver). </p>
<p id=”par-3_54″>Jimmy thought back to the night that turned his and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/shrinking-season-2-lukita-maxwell-fun-shock-kiss-reminded-harry-potter.html/”>daughter Alice</a>’s (Lukita Maxwell) lives upside down. Initially, viewers saw a person’s outline as they were put in the back of a police car at the site of the accident. Later, though, another flashback showed their face and it was none other than Goldstein. </p>
<p id=”par-4_44″>Since then, Louis has popped up in subsequent episodes of <em>Shrinking</em> Season 2. In one, Alice confronted Louis in a tense meeting at the coffee shop where he works. In another, Louis met a very surprised Brian (Michael Urie) outside Jimmy and Alice’s house. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-segal-didn-t-want-to-look-at-him-in-the-face”>Segal didn’t want to ‘look at him in the face’</h2>
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<p id=”par-5_45″>The warmth between the <em>Shrinking</em> co-creators cooled when filming began. “It was tender up until the moment we had to walk onto set together,” Segel told <a href=”https://www.thewrap.com/jason-segel-shrinking-season-2-interview-brett-goldstein/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>TheWrap</a>. The reason? Louis is “this guy who’s coming back into Jimmy’s life in the most painful way possible.” </p>
<p id=”par-6_38″>“I didn’t want to look at the guy because I wanted it to feel that way,” Segel explained, noting he didn’t do method acting, but he tried to keep Jimmy’s feelings about Louis close when cameras weren’t rolling. </p>
<p id=”par-7_38″>“I don’t carry it around with me, but this character that Brett was playing is the cause of a lot of Jimmy’s pain, and I just didn’t really want to look at him in the face,” he said. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-brett-goldstein-wasn-t-originally-supposed-to-play-louis-on-shrinking”>Brett Goldstein wasn’t originally supposed to play Louis on ‘Shrinking’</h2>
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<p id=”par-8_23″>In the same interview, Segel also revealed the part of Louis wasn’t Goldstein’s from the start. Originally, Louis was supposed to be younger. </p>
<p id=”par-9_45″>“He was written a little younger before, and it was just a little bit different than Brett,” Segel said. “Brett and I are about the same age where we have a similar sensibility, and it just felt really exciting to play these scenes with him.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_57″>“I think we always knew Brett would do something in the show,” he continued, noting the “plan” was for Goldstein to have a “lighter, kind of maybe comedic arc of a few episodes.” But that changed once Segel “said out loud what […] everybody in the room knew in their gut”— “that Brett should <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-diplomat-creator-couldnt-picture-keri-russell-kate-wyler-this-is-not-gonna-work-out.html/”>play that part</a>.” </p>
<p id=”par-11_54″>Lawrence saw Goldstein’s Louis as a mirror for Jimmy. “I wanted to do that with somebody who felt like a reflection of Jimmy. That when these two guys were standing face to face, they were looking at themselves. That was the picture that I thought was important, and I feel that way about Brett.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_13″>A new episode of <em>Shrinking</em> Season 2 drops on Apple TV+ every Wednesday.</p>