Jason Segel reveals he was 'actually sad' on the peak of 'How I Met Your Mom' success

• Jason Segel instructed The Hollywood Reporter that he was “sad” on the peak of his profession
• The actor starred as Marshall Eriksen from 2005 to 2014 within the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mom.”
• In a separate interview with Self-importance Truthful, he mentioned he had an “existential disaster” after “HIMYM” concluded.

Jason Segel now says that regardless of the success of “How I Met Your Mom,” he felt removed from fulfilled.

Throughout a latest Hollywood Reporter comedy actors roundtable, Segel, who’s at present starring within the Apple TV+ present “Shrinking,” admitted that regardless of parlaying the sitcom into starring roles in movies like “This Is 40,” “The Muppets,” and “Get Him To The Greek,” he was “actually sad” towards the top of the present.

“There was a interval in my life and profession across the final couple years of ‘How I Met Your Mom’ the place issues had been firing on each motion pictures and TV and everybody was telling me how properly it was going and I used to be actually sad,” Segel mentioned. “And so I then needed to grapple with like, why, what’s off about this equation? As a result of I needs to be feeling like I did it.”

Finally, Segel mentioned, he needed to study to strike a stability between preventing to make his personal inventive decisions and realizing when to surrender the ghost.  

“I feel the factor that I used to be confronted with is that it is actually nice to make the choice of, ‘fuck it, I do what I would like,’ however sadly there is a system of permission in place the place individuals will go, ‘We do not give a shit [what you want to do],'” he instructed the journal. 

He used the well-known ending of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” for instance.

“I needed to struggle arduous to place a Dracula puppet musical on the finish of a film,” he mentioned, likening his efforts to make the scene occur to a months- or years-long strategy of pushing a boulder up a hill.

“It is tough. A part of the equation is attending to the purpose the place you ask your self, ‘What’s value buying and selling my time for? What am I going to present over 9 months or three years for?'”

When “How I Met Your Mom” wrapped in 2014 after 9 seasons, Segel was left reeling. He described the sensation to Self-importance Truthful in Might 2023 as an “existential disaster.”

“When How I Met Your Mom ended, I spent a very long time, like 5 years, making an attempt to determine my relationship to work in a means that may be sustainable for me and fascinating for me,” he instructed VF. “It may be a little bit of an abusive relationship too as a result of when it loves you, it loves you a lot and it feels similar to love. However then when it activates you, it is kinda absent after which it comes again and I simply can’t give up you appearing, ?”