Jason Segel. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Photographs
Freaks and Geeks author Patty Lin thought-about having an affair with solid member Jason Segel regardless of their nine-year age hole — and the very fact she had a boyfriend on the time.
“Whereas I adored many of the actors [on Freaks and Geeks], I turned particularly shut with Jason Segel. He performed Nick, the drummer freak who’s Lindsay’s love curiosity,” Lin wrote in her memoir, Finish Credit: How I Broke Up With Hollywood, which was launched on Tuesday, August 29. “Solely 19 on the time, he wasn’t the sort that made ladies swoon, however he was cute. He had heat brown eyes, a goofy smile and a tall, lanky body — like, basketball participant tall. The truth is, he used to play basketball, similar to his character.”
Lin, who would go on to jot down on exhibits like Associates, Determined Housewives and Breaking Unhealthy, recalled her time on Freaks and Geeks’ sole season — her first gig as a full-time employees author — as an total constructive expertise. That was partially credited to showrunner Judd Apatow and the friendships she made with a number of solid members together with Seth Rogan and Busy Philipps. Nonetheless, she discovered herself most drawn to Segel whereas on set.
“It was inconceivable to not like Jason. He had a constructive perspective and did his job with none complaints. Not solely was he an intuitive actor however a budding author and musician as effectively,” Lin wrote of the actor, including that he was “additionally a pothead” like her.
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“That was one thing we had in frequent,” she continued. “Whereas taking pictures [the episode I wrote called] ‘Girlfriends and Boyfriends’ we sussed out our mutual curiosity and have become stoner buddies.”
Lin recalled a selected night time after taking pictures the place the twosome ate dinner at an Outback Steakhouse and “toked up” in Segel’s automotive whereas bonding over “deep ideas.”
“That was after I began having emotions for Jason, regardless of our nine-year age hole and the truth that I already had a boyfriend,” she confessed. “We talked about performing and writing, our profession targets, his concern of fame, our love of privateness and the necessity for solitude. It was the sort of dialog that makes you fall in love with somebody. Judd [Apatow] as soon as instructed me he’d had a dialog like that within the automotive with the actress Leslie Mann, after they had been engaged on the Cable Man. They ended up married.”
Seth Rogen and Jason Segel in ‘Freaks and Geeks’. YouTube
As Segel stopped at a lodge so Lin may use the toilet, the pair made quips concerning the Ritz-Carlton being designed for “wealthy Hollywood guys to have affairs” — and the dialog took a “suggestive” flip.
“I had a wild impulse to ask Jason to spend the night time with me on the lodge the place I had taken a leak,” Lin mentioned, including that she “stamped out the urge to kiss him and gave him a hug as an alternative.”
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She famous feeling “intoxicated” by Segel’s consideration “although I knew it was improper.” The author continued to lengthy for one thing to occur between them — till it turned clear he was involved in another person.
“My birthday got here later that week. [My boyfriend] Carl needed to exit of city for work, so I used that as an excuse to make dinner plans with Jason,” Lin defined. “All day lengthy I toggled between guilt and anticipation. Then I seen Jason flirting with Linda Cardellini, the actress who performed Lindsay.”
Linda Cardellini and Jason Segel in ‘Freaks and Geeks’. YouTube
When the trio ended up going out for dinner to have fun Lin’s birthday, she recalled making “a silent want” as she blew out her candles that Segel would kiss her on the finish of the night time. Nonetheless, “all I obtained when he dropped me off was a brotherly hug,” she wrote.
Lin claimed that she confessed her want to Segel the next day, however the actor finally turned her down resulting from not desirous to “smash” her boyfriend’s life.
“I used to be crushed like a lovesick teenager. Possibly Jason was being trustworthy, and if that’s the case, his ethical code was spectacular for a man his age. However I had a sense that no matter had been brewing between us was barely a blip in comparison with what was occurring with Linda,” Lin shared of her heartbreak. “And I used to be proper: earlier than lengthy, they had been a pair, their union deemed by everybody as cute and inevitable. Linda was lovely and gifted, to not point out a cool individual. I by no means stood an opportunity.”
Segel and Cardellini sparked a romance after Freaks and Geeks was canceled in 2001. After their cut up in 2007, Segel was linked to Bojana Novakovic and later Alexis Mixter, whom he dated from 2013 to 2021. Cardellini, for her half, shares daughter Lilah-Rose, 11, with fiancé Steven Rodriguez, to whom she’s been engaged since 2013.
