The Good Doctor Season 2 (ABC) Behind The Scenes | Freddie Highmore, TV Show HD

I guess we left off season one with two big events. One was the revelation about Glassman's condition and his health. There's certainly something we'll be picking up from the very beginning of season two. And also Sean having made a big mistake, possibly the biggest mistake that he's ever made at the hospital. And so we're going to have to see what the repercussions of that are moving forward. At the end of season one, the audience knows that Richard Schiff's character, Dr. Glassman, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Obviously that's very serious, and obviously his relationship with Dr. Sean Murphy, Freddie Highmore's character, is one of the most important aspects of the show. And obviously that in and of itself is a cliffhanger, because we've got to know what happened to Dr. Glassman. In the first episode, coming back of season two, we find out what happened. There's time that's transpired, and Dr. Andrews, whose goal was the entire first season to become president of the hospital, it looks like that goal was realized. Obviously Glassman is his mentor and family and sort of everything. And so we explored a lot how he dealt with that, really, and I think his initial denial of that situation, and then how to kind of tackle it. And I think the broad kind of arc of the season, it seems to be so far, is picking up there, Sean dealing with that, and Dr. Glassman going through treatment, and how they move forward as a two, figuring their way through that. We saw him, I think, come out of his shell a little bit in the first season, become a little bit more comfortable around certain people than maybe he was at the beginning, and a little less shy. And I think as we look at season two, we'll see a slightly more confident Sean, who is a bit more assertive at times, and not afraid to state his opinion when in a medical context. I think you can flourish in a healthy friendship relationship, and I think she really found that with Sean. And I think seeing him being so literal and matter-of-fact, and confident in his opinions and his views, I really think she found inspiration from him and their friendship. So I think she took a chance. So Freddie wrote the first episode of the season, and it was very hard because he was so demanding. No, he is one of the sweetest, most amazingly talented people, and working with him on that was really cool, because it's always exciting to bring someone's words to life, but when you do it for someone that you already know and adore, it's even more special. It's about inclusivity, and yes, we are focused on Dr. Sean Murphy, who is on the spectrum, but he's, and that's a very important topic to bring to light and to discuss, and not to make it so taboo. And at the same time, it's about more than that. It's about the inclusivity on a bigger level, on a larger level, with not only the patients that come in, but also the doctors that work at the hospital. I think just, we're working with women, we're working with women in powerful positions, we're working with different ethnicities, we're talking about a lot of different issues that aren't just medical. I feel like we get stamps of approval. I don't think anything's ever one way or the other, but when we represent the autism community and non-neuro-normative community, I feel like there's been a nice, we've been getting great feedback, and I love the idea that the show can educate. We're learning from it as actors, as people in this community, and I think if you're at a place where you're popular with people, it's a smart show, and it's led by really fun, smart, intelligent people that really care about their job, and then people like it. I don't know what else you can hope for, so we're very fortunate, and we just want to keep trying to win those hearts. This is where hope lives. This is where hope is tested. This is where faith is tried, and these medical professionals are here trying to exact a science, trying to create a theory, trying to come up with a solution, and sometimes it's a gamble, sometimes it's an experiment, but we don't have any other options, but we want to take care of you. And what I appreciate about this show is that in a lot of the cases where we have parents who have kids in the hospital on this show, our doctors on the show come up with different ways to attack it on how to solve the situation, and in a lot of cases, in reality, you are forced in a line that says, no, this is the way we have diagnosed the problem, and this is the way we do it. And what I like is that the doctors on this show fight for, no, what if it's this? What if it's that? What if we try this? What if we try that?