Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticJason Segel, the creator, writer, director, producer and star of the innovative AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere, said it straight out during Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event: he is essentially playing himself.“My character starts out not knowing who he is and by the 10th episode I become Jason Segel – literally by name.
I wanted to write something from my gut. It became really important to me when I looked at what I was doing and where I was going in my life and career to try to challenge myself, to make something that felt like a piece of art.
It had been a long time,“ he said of the AMC series, which is based on a documentary called The Institute and involves four.
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