Jason Segel is opening up about his time spent on HIMYM.
"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.
"I had to fight hard to put a Dracula puppet musical at the end of a movie. All my ideas are [often met with] people being like, 'No, that's stupid,'" the actor recalled."So, it's about summoning the will to say, 'OK, sh*t, I have an idea and I believe in it and it won’t leave me alone and now I’m going to do the three or four years of fighting through all the permissions and pushing the boulder up the hill.
"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…", a dramedy he co-created alongside Bill Lawrence andbreakout star Brett Goldstein.
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