Jason Segel, Marshall's actor in 'How I Met Your Mother', has opened up like never before about his hardest moments in the series and the existential crisis he faced as an actor when he was coming to the end of it.
The actors of 'How I Met Your Mother' seem to be freeing themselves from the shackles of what they will say almost 10 years after the end of the series.
The famous sitcom continues to be remembered as one of the most legendary on television, and recently its protagonist Josh Radnor (Ted Mosby) wrote at length about the toxic relationship he had with the series and with his character over the years.
He has now played Jason Segel's turn, who gave life to his inseparable companion Marshall Ericksen. The actor, whom we've seen in more mainstream movie titles than Radnor ever since also had his own problems on the sitcom.
"There was a period in my life and career around the last few years of 'How I Met Your Mother' when things were taking off in film and TV, and everyone was telling me how well it was going and I was very unhappy. ", he confesses.
"And so I had to face why, what's wrong with this equation? Because I should be feeling like I got it. I think what I found is that it's great to make the decision to 'F- her, I do whatever I want,' but unfortunately, there's a whole permission system in place where people are like, 'We don't give a shit what you want to do,'" he laughs. "Good for you, man!" recreates the actor in The Hollywood Reporter's Round Table.
He also acknowledges that seeing the end of a series where he had grown as a person and as an actor for ten years is not easy: "I didn't know what I wanted to do next. I really wondered if I could really be good enough to do drama."
"I accepted a movie called 'The End of the Tour' to play David Foster Wallace. The degree of difficulty of not looking like a Saturday Night Live skit, when you put on the glasses and the bandana and you are saying the lines, it was very high. Also, I didn't have any preparation system because in comedy you prepare differently", he recalls humbly.
"There was a lot of improvisation in the way we worked, and it was fat dialogue parts. And I literally said in my head, 'What would Edward Norton do?', I had a dialect coach and I did all these things that I heard you had to do. to do when you're a real actor. But man, I was terrified," he tells the other guests at the table.
