Jason Segel on Growing With ‘Shrinking’ and the Moment That Everything Changed: ‘I Wasn’t Sure That I Could Write Anymore’
variety.comJason Segel begins — him beating me to the punch, asking the first question. It perfectly sets the tone. Because like me, he likes his job a lot. “I don’t like the parts of my job that require permission.
That’s why I started writing. No one can tell you no, no one can say you can’t,” says Segel. “The best piece of advice I got was to try to remove as many of the systems of permission along the way as you can.” Segel has worked hard to get to this point.
Currently, he’s promoting Apple TV+’s “Shrinking,” a dark comedy he leads and co-created with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein.
There’s freedom in working on a project as a co-creator, but that wasn’t always the case. He got his start as strictly an actor, breaking through in 1999 with the role of Nick Andopolis in “Freaks and Geeks.” When the NBC series was axed after one season, Segel followed the advice of producer Judd Apatow: Write.
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