Freddie Highmore shared Wednesday night that he has “one regret” over his seven seasons on “The Good Doctor.”
Sitting down with host Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, the British actor admitted that while he lived and filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he didn’t take full advantage of what the place had to offer.
Highmore — previously best known for his child roles in films like “Finding Neverland” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” both of which he co-starred with Johnny Depp — has been living in Canada to film the series since it premiered in 2017. He plays Dr. Shaun Murphy, an autistic surgeon with a photographic memory.
During his interview with Highmore, Kimmel asked him about his time filming away from his home in London.
“You shot ‘The Good Doctor’ in Vancouver,” Kimmel said. “So you’ve spent a lot of your life there. Do you miss being there?”
“Yeah, yeah, I will. I mean, I’ll miss the crew, they were amazing, you know, everyone became a family, and the cast,” Highmore said, before turning his attention to the coastal city’s various assets. “I feel like I never — the only thing I regret is never fully capturing, you know, the Canadian outdoorsy nature that’s probably in there somewhere.”
“Do you feel like you want to get out?” Kimmel asked.
Highmore recalled being challenged on the intensity of the camping experience.
“They’d ask, ‘Have you been camping?’ And I’d say, ‘Yeah, I’ve been camping.’ And they’ll say, ‘Oh, have you gone camping in the backcountry and hiked for two days and carried all your stuff and fought a bear and pitched a tent and plunged into the river and came back home?’ And I’ll say, ‘No, I haven’t!’ The plunge into cold water is not — I don’t know. They tell you that you get a great high, but I feel like there are so many other ways to get a great high that are so much more fun.’
Kimmel couldn’t help but share Highmore’s disdain for cold water immersion.
“I couldn’t be more supportive of this idea. This cold water immersion thing. I think about it for a total of about 45 minutes a day, and the more I push back, the more people around me are supportive, trying to say, ‘Oh, it’s so good for you!’ And they have no evidence of it. There’s no research done to determine that it’s great for you.”
“Have you done it?” Highmore asked.
“I have,” the host admitted. “And I’ll tell you this: It’s terrible.”
