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HFPA in Conversation: Jason Segel on Living a Magical Life

Dispatches from Elsewhere, about people searching for who they are.  “I wanted to create four different characters in different versions of transition in their lives because I think if we’re aware, we’re all transitioning at any given moment. I tried to create four sort of disparate characters who are all trying to figure out who they are, having some version of existential crisis, and use their differences to eventually bring them together and show that we’re all going through the same thing at any given time. Just trying to figure out what’s happening, who we are and what we want to do next,” Segel told HFPA journalist Rocio Ayuso.

How I Met Your Mother ended. “I started working at 17 years old and was really working constantly. Especially once I got How I Met Your Mother. That show lasted nine years and at every hiatus, I was doing a movie and writing it and didn’t have a lot of time to stop and think. So then finally I had this blank canvas ahead of me of what do I want to do next, not just professionally but with my life. All of a sudden, I didn’t even have to live in Los Angeles anymore if I didn’t want to.’