Jason Segel is sharing how he really felt during the final seasons of How I Met Your Mother.
The 43-year-old actor famously played Marshall Ericksen throughout the CBS series run from 2005 until 2014. In a new interview during THR’s Round Table, Jason recalled his time on the popular sitcom and revealed how he hid how unhappy he truly was in the final seasons. Keep reading to find out more… Jason shared that 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.” “I then had to grapple with why?
What’s off about this equation?” he went on. “I think the thing that I was confronted with is that it’s really great to make the decision of ‘f*** 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** [what you want to do].’ Like, ‘Good for you, man.’” Jason also spoke of how he did feel a bit lost of what he wanted to do after the series ended, saying that he “didn’t know what I wanted to do next.
I really wondered if I was actually good enough to do drama.” “I took a movie called The End of the Tour to play David Foster Wallace.
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