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Harrison Ford has retirement on his mind.
The 83-year-old actor participated in an Apple TV press event in Los Angeles on Tuesday and explained that he’d be content if his role in “Shrinking” — in which he plays a therapist with Parkinson’s disease — was his swan song.
“Where do you go from here? The kind of work that we’re able to do is remarkable given the tools we have to work with, and the notion that lies behind this series. And if it was all over here, that would be sufficient,” Ford said during a panel alongside his co-stars, per the Hollywood Reporter.
“This has been a different kind of job for me, and I’ve been doing this for a long time,” the “Star Wars” icon continued. “This is very special and it really nurtures me and makes me feel like what we’re doing has value and importance. I look for that in my life and I’m happy to have found it here.”
Harrison’s comments drew loud cheers from the 300-seat audience as “Shrinking” executive producer and panel moderator Ashley Nicole Black replied, “There’s never been a better place to end a panel.”
Ford stars in “Shrinking” alongside Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Christa Miller and Luke Tennie.
His performance as Dr. Paul Rhoades earned him his first-ever Emmy nomination last year, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award, Critics’ Choice Award and SAG Award.
In the new season, Ford shares the screen with Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson’s in real life and portrays a patient with the neurodegenerative disease.
“It was a bit daunting because I am representing a character that has Parkinson’s, and Michael has the real thing,” Ford said during the panel. “I’ve always felt a real sense of responsibility for getting that part of my story right.”
“But Michael is an extraordinary, generous and lovely fellow, who I did not know at all and had a chance to, just working on this show,” he continued of Fox, who was absent from the event. “It was an extraordinary experience to work with him. He is such a powerful presence. Such grace and courage and indomitability, and some of that, I hope, will help me color my portrayal of a character with Parkinson’s.”
Ford added, “That’s the serious part of it. But the fun part of it was there as well. It was an extraordinary experience, I think for all of us, to be with Michael and see how he does what he does. He’s so funny as well.”
Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991 at the age of 29, recently told Vanity Fair that Ford’s performance in “Shrinking” brought him “to tears.”
“What I wasn’t prepared for was how much of his own understanding of the disease he brought to it,” the “Back to the Future” actor said “I mean, I recognized Parkinson’s in his eyes. The things I was feeling, I recognized in the way he was expressing himself.”
Last year, Ford shut down the possibility that he’ll retire soon.
“No. That’s one of the things I thought was attractive about the job of an actor, was that they need old people, too, to play old people’s parts,” the “Indiana Jones” star told Variety.