Time Out - Jason Segel

Voici un article paru le 11 Mars 2009 sur le site Time Out. Il s'agit de morceaux choisis d'une interview de Jason Segel à propos de son nouveau film mais aussi de Paul Rudd et de son projet Muppet Show.

L'article est en deux parties: Partie 1 - Partie 2

 

PARTIE 1

The Hot Seat Time Out New York / Issue 702 : Mar 12-18, 2009 

Jason Segel

He enjoys show tunes, puppets and bromantic candlelit dinners.

By Drew Toal

If platonic man-love were currency, actor Jason Segel, 29, would be wealthy as any sultan. In his latest film, I Love You, Man, he plays opposite Paul Rudd in a romantic buddy comedy about the pains of growing up and the perils of maintaining adult relationships. While talking about his role in helping to introduce Rudd's awkward character to the sloppy joys of male bonding, the hilarious How I Met Your Mother costar reveals his own sensitive side-but not, for a change, his private parts.

 

Time Out New York: So, are you bromantically involved with anyone right now?
Jason Segel: I'm not, actually. My best friend lived with me for the past couple of years-we've been best friends since we were 12-and he's just left to go to med school in the Bronx.

 

Not Neil Patrick Harris? I saw this Les Miz duet with you and NPH on Megan Mullaly. It has something like a million YouTube hits.
God, that's humiliating. You know, normally those talk shows are pretty scripted, but that was a totally spontaneous moment. In one of our preinterviews, someone must've said that Neil and I like to do show tunes together-which we do-but I certainly had no intention of doing that on national TV.

 

But you and Paul Rudd practice a Rush duet in this movie.
Yeah, and we got to actually hang out with Rush and interview them. We were like, "This might shock you, but we're going to be doing a lot of this weird guy-on-guy dancing." And they're like, "No, that's about par for the course."

 

Who was the guy who got away?
You know, during the Sarah Marshall press junket, it was the same time that that movie Leatherheads was coming out. It was the same studio, so they piggybacked our press junkets on the same day at the same hotel. And at the end of the night, I got to sit and have drinks with Clooney. And let me tell you something: That guy is just as charming as you think he's going to be.

 

Speaking of handsome devils, did you ever find yourself getting lost in Paul Rudd's eyes during filming?
Oh, Paul Rudd is dreamy. I didn't have that problem, but there was one amazing experience where I was doing days on my TV show and nights on the movie. Like 20-hour days. My only recourse was to sleep any time we had even a ten-minute break. So one time I was fast asleep on the couch, and I just feel Paul and his gentle touch on my shoulder going, "Hey, Jase, wake up. It's time to wake up, buddy. Wake up." And I slowly open my eyes, and Paul is standing there with his dick out. And he just gives me this weird, mischievous smile and walked out of the room.

 

I assume that you two never spoke of that incident again.
I didn't bring it up for a while, and then I brought it up, like, two weeks ago, and he said, "Oh, I don't remember that." [Laughs] How often are you doing this joke that you don't remember it?

 

Are you worried that your full frontal in Sarah Marshall will now be eclipsed by Dr. Manhattan's wang in Watchmen?
Is he going to do full frontal?!?

 

Yes. It's giant and blue and reads minds, I think.
Oh my God. You're kidding me. That would be unbelievable. Yeah, that would be good, because I Google Imaged, out of curiosity, male nudity, and I'm like the first three hits.

 

I imagine you won't let this affront to your manhood stand.
No, it might come down to a Jason Segel-Billy Crudup sword fight-which the world has clearly been waiting for.

 

The world is also waiting for this new Muppets movie you're working on. If all your friends bail on you, is making new puppet friends an acceptable alternative?
Dude, it's so funny that you ask that. I've already begun. When my friend moved out, I was left in this big house alone, and then they gave me the puppets from Sarah Marshall. And they're my friends. As sick as that sounds, it's just me and Dracula hanging out and drinking Scotch.

 

PARTIE 2

Jason Segel: We'll slap bet you that his new film is awesome

Posted in Hot Seat by Drew Toal on March 11th, 2009 at 11:28 am

 

Jason Segel on the real-life implications of topics broached in his latest film:
Oh, absolutely, there are real-life implications. Our whole group of male friends is really close. It gets a little weird occasionally. An actor's lifestyle is so different, you know what I mean? For example, I'm going to London for six months starting next month, so it's kind of weird to try and live a normal life and maintain a relationship and all that stuff. Actors are a good ten years behind the rest of our peers. I'm looking forward to my thirties. I think I'm going to hit my stride in my thirties.

 

Yeah?
Yeah. Then I'll finally be able to play a doctor, you know?

 

So your buddy has to go all through med school, but you can just play one on TV?
Yeah, exactly. With no training. I can just spout out nonsense. I need 50 cc's of Ninhydrin!

See other parts of this hard-hitting interview after the break! 

 

Jason Segel on living near Paul Rudd's celebrity supernova:

Do you think this was his handsomest role ever?
It may be. Maybe since Clueless. This is our third movie together. 

Is this the one where you are going to emerge from his shadow?
Yes! I'm hoping. Well, he was very sweet to do that cameo in Sarah Marshall. He came up with that character on his own. First of all, it was really easy to get people to do the movie because it was shot in Hawaii, but we asked him what he wanted to do, and he came up with this stoned surfer character. So, so funny.

 

Jason Segel on a new Muppet film:

You're writing this new Muppet movie. Did you get to introduce any new Muppets?
We've introduced one new Muppet, and a ton of celebrity cameos from our comic group. So it should be cool, man. I hope.

Did you happen to write in Nanny from Muppet Babies?
No, I didn't. Although I have a great affinity for Muppet Babies.

 

So we still won't be able to see what she looks like above her green-striped socks?
She's the one who got away.

 

And, finally, Jason Segel on three situations in which it is okay to pat another man on the ass!

Just three? Number one, the sun is out. Number two, the moon is out. Number three, there's an eclipse.