
Jason Segel is the lovable Marshall on How I Met Your Mother, but back in the day he got his start with Judd Apatow in Freaks and Geeks. He talked with GQ‘s Alex Pappademas about his drug of choice, Hollywood gossip, and making a Muppet movie. Yes, you read that right.
On being a former pothead: “I miss smoking a ton of pot. I can’t do it anymore. I’ve got too much work.”
On his mission to revive the Muppet franchise: “It was right after Sarah Marshall, and I had a little bit of juice all of a sudden. Writing juice. And I took this meeting at Disney, and they’re pitching me different stuff to rewrite, and I stopped, and I said, “Thank you, this is all very flattering”—which it was, it’s supercool to suddenly be in that position—”but listen. You guys own the Muppets, and you’re just kind of sitting on ‘em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.” And there was literally laughter in the room. Like, “Oh—R-rated Segel is making a weird joke.” And I said, “No, I’m serious. And I’m not gonna make it the Judd Apatow version of the Muppets. It’s not gonna be ironic.”
On finding it hard to believe he’s really FAMOUS: When we started out—when I got Freaks and Geeks, I was like 18, Seth [Rogen] was 16. Judd [Apatow] wasn’t who Judd is now. And we would sit around and just wax poetic about how we’d take over Hollywood someday. And then it happened, that’s the weird part of it—but I think in our minds, we’re still those dudes, sitting around like, “We’re gonna show ‘em all!”
On just how wrong the gossip mill can be: It’s the worst. There was one picture on the Internet, and it said “Jason’s New Flame?” And it was a picture of me and my sister walking down the street. Somehow, if you put a question mark after it, it’s totally legitimate.
Read the whole interview here.
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