‘Shrinking’ Star Michael Urie Talks ‘Bold Move’ Of Brian’s Connection With Brett Goldstein’s Louis

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SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Shrinking Season 2 Episode 6. Shrinking star Michael Urie was shocked, but excited to portray Brian’s efforts to connect with Louis (Brett Goldstein), the man who ran over Alice’s (Lukita Maxwell) mother and Jimmy’s (Jason Segel) wife Tia (Lila Bowden).

In Episode 6 of the Apple TV+ comedy, titled “In A Lonely Place,” Alice learns that Brian has forged a friendship with Brett Goldstein’s character, who first showed up at the very end of Episode 1 in a big reveal.

She forces Brian to take her to visit Louis without Jimmy knowing, and they hash through a lot of big feelings. If it weren’t for Brian following some previous advice from Jimmy, this may not have happened the way it did. “Brian was the one, of all the characters, to be the one to fold Louis into this family’s chosen family, and to sort of help begin the process of, whether it’s possible to forgive someone like this,” Urie told Deadline. “I think it’s really interesting that it was Brian and such a bold move by the writers.

And I was thrilled when I read it in the script. When I saw it in the script, I was so excited. And then it gets to play out in both comic and serious ways, the way that this show does so beautifully.” In the below interview, the actor detailed the “gift” of Brian’s big monologue, the scenes filmed with Brett Goldstein and Lukita Maxwell and Brian’s hesitation to become a father with his husband Charlie (Devin Kawaoka). DEADLINE: The theme of Season 2 is forgiveness, you had your moment with Jason/ Jimmy at the beginning, because he didn’t tell Brian about Gaby.