Jason Segel Admits Starring in HIMYM Was ‘Tricky’ as He Balanced His Movie Career: ‘I Was Starting to Not Enjoy Myself’

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  1. > “Listen, it’s like the best problem you could ever have, for sure, especially when you’re scared you might never work,” Segel said. Forgetting Sarah Marshall “did so well” — making more than $100 million at the box office when it was released in 2008 — that Segel had enough “juice” to keep getting movies made, and he wanted to keep writing his own scripts.

    > But balancing his TV and movie careers was an enormous undertaking. “The way my life was for about six years was I would be shooting How I Met Your Mother. And during that time, I would be writing a movie that we would then shoot on the four months off and get done in time to get back to How I Met Your Mother,” the Shrinking star remembered.

    > “And it was an amazing time. It was an electric time. But I also was getting a little tired and I was starting to not enjoy myself so much,” he confessed. “And that was a bummer because I was doing such cool things.”

  2. I tottaly LOVE this man ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|heart_eyes)

  3. …and yet, what do we all remember him for ?…… ah yes, a TV Show !!!!! 🙄

  4. And in the later seasons, you could tell as a viewer lol

  5. I, too , stopped enjoying himself when he made movies.

  9. That show is not funny if you remove the laugh track. It jumped the shark long before the last seasons

  10. His cameo in “This is the End” seems to imply that he was unsatisfied with it as well

  13. He was brilliant in HIMYM, you can tell the final 2 seasons took a toll, but you could tell it was difficult for anyone to say goodbye

  14. I love Jason Segel. But honestly bro read the room. People are starving out here and you’re complaining because you had to get paid to do a show and movies! At the same time oh no!

  15. Could’ve just titled the article, “Jason Segel Continues to be Wholesome and Adorable,” and I would’ve read it.

  16. We weren’t either man, it’s okay. Last few seasons dipped and that ending…..it absolutely was the ending we never wanted.

  17. I started to not enjoy how I met your mother when I started watching it.

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