A tough steadiness. Jason Segel mirrored on his makes an attempt to pursue different alternatives whereas filming the ultimate seasons of How I Met Your Mom — and revealed how his psychological well being was affected.
“There was a interval in my life and profession across the final couple of years of How I Met Your Mom the place issues have been firing in each films and TV, and everybody was telling me how properly it was going,” Segel, 43, shared throughout The Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actor Roundtable on Thursday, June 1. “And I used to be actually sad.”
The actor, who performed Marshall Eriksen within the hit sitcom from 2005 to 2014, mentioned he struggled with not having full management of his profession.
“I then needed to grapple with why? What’s off about this equation?” he continued. “I feel the factor that I used to be confronted with is that it’s actually nice to make the choice of ‘F—ok it, I do what I need.’ However sadly, there’s a system of permission in place the place individuals will go, ‘We don’t give a s—t [what you want to do].’ Like, ‘Good for you, man.’”
How I Met Your Mom adopted Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and his group of mates in New York Metropolis as they tried to seek out happiness of their private {and professional} lives. Within the sequence, an older model of Ted (voiced by the late Bob Saget) recalled his previous to his son and daughter as a approach to clarify how he met their mom. The sequence additionally starred Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan and Cristin Milioti
As HIMYM went on to turn into an award-winning present, Segel explored different tasks reminiscent of The Muppets, The 5-12 months Engagement and This Is 40. In keeping with the comic, he confronted many challenges whereas attempting to department out on the massive display.
“After How I Met Your Mom ended, I didn’t know what I needed to do subsequent. I actually questioned if I used to be really adequate to do drama,” he added on Thursday. “I took a film known as The Finish of the Tour to play David Foster Wallace. The diploma of issue of it not trying like a Saturday Night time Reside sketch, while you get the glasses and the bandanna and also you’re saying the strains, felt so excessive.”
Segal famous that making the transition from comedy to drama wasn’t what he anticipated. “I additionally had no system of prep since you prep in another way for comedy. There was a variety of improv in how we got here up, and these have been massive chunks of dialogue,” he mentioned. “I actually simply performed in my head, ‘What would Edward Norton do?’ I bought a dialect coach and I did all these items that I heard you do in case you’re an actual actor. However man, I used to be scared.”
Since HIMYM aired its sequence finale, the present’s impression continued to develop with a derivative titled How I Met Your Father. The Hulu sequence, which debuted in January 2022, focuses on Sophie (Hilary Duff) and her mates’ lives in Manhattan. On this gender-swapped model of the story, Future Sophie (Kim Cattrall) recounts to her son the occasions that led to her assembly his father.
Segal, for his half, beforehand hinted that he could be open to reprising his position as Marshall in help of govt producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, telling Leisure Tonight in January, “These individuals modified my life, and I might do something they ever requested me to.”
