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Michael J. Fox is returning to his roots.
The five-time Emmy Award winner will guest star in the third season of the Apple TV+ series “Shrinking.”
The streaming service and the actor shared a collaborative Instagram post with the news Thursday.
“Big feelings incoming. Michael J. Fox joins the Shrinking cast as a guest star in season 3,” the caption reads. “Shrinking Season 2 — Now Streaming.”
There are no details on what role Fox will play.
In “Shrinking,” Harrison Ford plays a therapist who, it’s disclosed at the end of the first season, has Parkinson’s disease, the same disease Fox revealed in 1998 he had. Fox recently partnered with Apple TV+ on the 2023 Emmy-winning documentary “Still,” which chronicled his life and history with Parkinson’s.
“Shrinking” will reunite Fox with co-creator and executive producer Bill Lawrence, who co-created the sitcom “Spin City,” which Fox starred in before leaving the series and retiring from full-time acting in 2000 to instead focus on his foundation. Fox won his fourth Emmy Award for “Spin City” after he won three for “Family Ties.”
Fox made many more appearances on the small screen over the years, even winning another Emmy for his guest role on the FX series “Rescue Me” in 2009. He would earn another five Emmy nominations for his work on the CBS drama “The Good Wife.” Fox also appeared on “Designated Survivor,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Boston Legal,” and he starred in his own short-lived series, “The Michael J. Fox Show.”
“Shrinking” will be Fox’s first on-screen TV acting role since he appeared on “The Good Wife” spinoff, “The Good Fight,” in 2020.
That same year, Fox revealed he planned to retire from acting for a second time.
“The nascent diminishment in my ability to download words and repeat them verbatim is just the latest ripple in the pond,” he wrote in his memoir “No Time Like the Future.”
“There are reasons for my lapses in memorization — be they age, cognitive issues with the disease, distraction from the constant sensations of Parkinson’s, or lack of sensation because of the spine — but I read it as a message, an indicator,” he wrote.
“There is a time for everything, and my time of putting in a twelve-hour workday, and memorizing seven pages of dialogue, is best behind me,” he continued. “At least for now.”
Fox also poked some fun at the challenges acting presented to him, although he didn’t necessarily close the door on returning to his trade.
“In fairness to myself and to producers, directors, editors, and poor beleaguered script supervisors, not to mention actors who enjoy a little pace, I enter a second retirement,” he wrote.
“That could change, because everything changes. But if this is the end of my acting career, so be it.”
