Jason Segelknown worldwide for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the popular series How did I meet your mother (How I Met Your Mother In its original language)he confessed in an interview that success was accompanied by serious personal and professional consequences.
During your participation in the podcast Awards Chatter of The Hollywood Reporterthe 45 -year -old actor reflected on the challenges of balanceing his career on television with his passion for cinema.
In 2005, the artist was selected to be part of the cast of the CBS comedy, a series that was held in the air for nine seasons and became a cultural phenomenon. However, that same year his film career began to take off, which placed him before a professional crossroads.
“How did I meet your mother He gave me financial security and recognition, of course, but also He left me locked in a character for many years. Each pause between seasons was a decision: rest or continue working, ”he explained.
Although the famous acknowledged that his passage through the series was unforgettable, he said that he was gradually getting tired of being part of the project for the great workload he had during the breaks between seasons.
“It was an incredible time. An electrifying era. But also I was getting tired a little and began not to enjoy And that was an annoyance because I was doing such great things, ”he said.
During the seasonal changes of the series, far from taking a break, Jason Segel He wrote and starred several feature films.
Inspired by your mentor Judd Apatow “Who directed it in the cult series Freaks and Geeks– Segel reported that after the first season of How did I meet your mother wrote the script of Forgetting Sarah Marshall during a holiday in Hawaii.
“Judd instilled this idea for us during Freaks and Geeks, Where he said: If you can improvise how you do, then you can write. I just need to teach you to write. He told me: ‘You are a rare guy, and The only way you are going to achieve it is writing your own script‘. So I did, ”he recalled.
-The success of the film in 2008, which raised more than 100 million dollars at the world level, allowed him to continue developing his career in the cinema. However, the workload was overwhelming.
“For six years, he filmed How did I meet your mother while writing a movie. We shot it during the four months of rest and ended in time to return, ”he said.
As if that were not enough, Jason Segel shared that when they rolled Los Muppets In 2011, which starred and co -wrote, filmed How did I meet your mother by day and the tape at night. That same summer, he recorded Five years of commitment, that premiered in 2012.
“So it was a tired guy”Said the actor, who in recent years has moved away from the public eye and based in a small town.
Jason Segel He revealed the reasons behind his surprising decision to leave Hollywood and move to a small town in California. In an interview issued in the program Todaythe star shared how it changed radically life after the end of How did I meet your mother In 2014.
“I was having some really intense ‘twenty -half. How did I meet your mother And I was writing many films that worked very well. But I wasn’t stopping to reflect, to review how I really felt. I realized that art must reflect what you are living, and I really wasn’t living much, ”he said.
It was then that he made a decision to move to Ojai, a quiet town to the northwest of Los Angeles, in Ventura County.
In a previous interview with Los Angeles TimesSegel had already talked about the feeling of peace he found there, where today he lives in a stone house in the middle of an orange garden.
“After six weeks I realized something incredible: ‘My God, finally I feel calm‘, ”He said.
