While people were telling JasonSegel “how well” his career was going, the actor questioned why he didn’t feel the same way
“There was a period in my life and career around the last couple of years of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ where things were firing in both movies and TV, and everyone was telling me how well it was going and I was really unhappy,” he revealed.
“And so I then had to grapple with why? What’s off about this equation?” Segel shared. “I think the thing that I was confronted with is that it’s really great to make the decision of ‘f**k it, I do what I want,’ but unfortunately there’s a system of permission in place where people will go, ‘We don’t give a sh*t [what you want to do].’ Like, ‘Good for you, man.'”
He continued by saying, “It’s tricky. Part of the equation is getting to the point where you ask yourself, ‘What is worth trading my time for? What am I going to give over nine months or three years for?’ Because I look back at the ones I didn’t like and I’m like, ‘That was not worth age 28.'” “I also had no system of prep because you prep differently for comedy. There was a lot of improv in how we came up, and these were big chunks of dialogue. I literally just played in my head, ‘What would Edward Norton do?’ I got a dialect coach and I did all these things that I heard you do if you’re a real actor,” he continued. “But man, I was scared…”
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