Wendie Malick Shares Sweet Ritual with Harrison Ford on Shrinking Set (Exclusive)

Wendie Malick is revealing a candy behind-the-scenes tidbit from the Shrinking set involving costar Harrison Ford.

The actress, 73, opened up about what it was like returning to the display screen with the long-lasting actor, 82, in an interview with PEOPLE on the premiere of the Apple TV+ present’s season 2. Explaining that she and Ford have developed a candy bond, the Dream On alum shared the ritual the pair have when filming.

“He lets me trip round in his little golf cart that claims ‘Cowboy’ on it,” she stated. “He at all times picks me up and takes me to the stage, which may be very beneficiant of him. However I’ve to say that he’s simply one of many loveliest, most beneficiant and humorous main males I’ve ever had.”

Malick additionally stated Ford acts as her private sommelier, introducing her to among the greatest wines, and making her blended drinks like “actually fantastic tequila cocktails.” Reflecting on when the Indiana Jones star was PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1998, Malick provides that she understands why he’s such a fan favourite. 

“Harrison, I feel the explanation he is had such lasting energy, and it would not matter if he is getting older and just a little wrinklier and gray-haired and stuff, it is the little mischievous smile that he has in all the pieces he does,” she stated. “That little dry humorousness, which is so irresistible, and he would not take himself too severely. I feel there’s one thing so interesting about that.”

She continued, “He is not a kind of, ‘Hey…’, he is simply form of like, ‘I do not know. I do not even understand how I acquired right here. Who is aware of?’”

Now, on the second season of the beloved sequence, Malick stated she and Ford have “established a very good rapport,” making it simpler to play on-screen love pursuits.

“That just about occurred immediately, however then coming again final season was actually fascinating as a result of we acquired just a little bit into my backstory and we shifted when it comes to our relationship after I now not may very well be his physician as we had been seeing one another,” she defined, referring to her character Dr. Julie Baram, who develops a romantic relationship with Ford’s Dr. Paul Rhoades after he turns into her affected person following a Parkinson’s prognosis.

“What I like about this present is it mirrors what so many people are going by means of, coping with sudden loss and challenges health-wise, and the way you select your loved ones at a sure age,” she added. “It isn’t a lot the blood individuals as it’s the buddies you need in your life.”

Malick can also be starring within the new Hallmark+ present The Hen Sisters, the place she performs Augusta “Gus” Moore, the proprietor of Mimi’s Fried Hen restaurant. Speaking about how she ready for the function, which comes from a e-book by the identical identify, she stated she was in a position to take components of that character and put her personal twist on it.

“They only gave me the outline of her and so they moved it from the bestselling novel to being some fictional city within the south,” she defined. “However after I learn the descriptions of her by the townspeople, it was at all times that she was type of a witch, and she or he was type of imply previous so-and-so, and I simply thought, ‘Possibly she’s like an previous hippie and she or he’s a hoarder.’ And I believed, ‘Okay, can she put on overalls and males’s boots and simply be completely virtually androgynous, however with this simply lengthy steely grey hair.’ And that simply appeared like nice enjoyable to me.”

She then joked: “So it was the simplest hair and make-up and wardrobe I ever had.”

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Shrinking season 2 premieres Wednesday, Oct. 16 on Apple TV+.