{"id":610897,"date":"2026-05-29T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:59:19","slug":"karen-gillan-joins-shrinking-season-four-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610897\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Gillan joins \u2018Shrinking\u2019 season four cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karen Gillan is joining the cast of season four of Shrinking, in a recurring role.<\/p>\n

Apple TV+\u2019s comedy-drama stars Jason Segel as a grieving therapist who decides to become more actively involved in his patients\u2019 lives. The show co-stars Harrison Ford<\/a> and has become a big hit for the streaming service, being nominated for three Golden Globes and eight Emmys.<\/p>\n

Now, Variety<\/a> reports that Scottish actor Karen Gillan will join the fourth season in an undisclosed recurring role. Season four will reportedly feature a time jump, catching up with the characters in an entirely new storyline.<\/p>\n

Gillan has enjoyed a successful career in TV and film, best known on the small screen as the character Amy Pond in the sci-fi hit Doctor Who<\/a>, which she starred in from 2010-13. In film, she played the Marvel character Nebula in three Guardians Of The Galaxy<\/a> films, two Avengers<\/a> movies, and 2022\u2019s Thor: Love And Thunder. She has also starred in the rebooted Jumanji films, and will appear opposite Henry Cavill<\/a> in the forthcoming remake of Highlander.<\/p>\n

Shrinking ended its third season run in April, with Harrison Ford winning rave reviews for his portrayal of a therapist living with Parkinson\u2019s disease. At a press day for the show, he remarked that he may not act again after being so enriched by the series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere do you go from here? The kind of work that we\u2019re able to do is remarkable given the tools we have to work with, and the notion that lies behind this series,\u201d he said. \u201cThis has been a different kind of job for me, and I\u2019ve been doing this for a long time. This is very special, and it really nurtures me and makes me feel like what we\u2019re doing has value and importance. I look for that in my life, and I\u2019m happy to have found it here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Gillan is joining the cast of season four of Shrinking, in a recurring role. Apple TV+\u2019s comedy-drama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[24462,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-avengers","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}