Interview with Jason Segel
So last week I wrote about how Jason Segel is going to be working with Kristen Bell on an upcoming project that he wrote. I asked if anyone knew of anything else he has written and KM has come through. KM sent me an article with PopEntertainment where they interview Jason Segel and he reveals that he has written, though we might not have seen it, yet.
Even though it did not quite last a season, your first series, Freaks and Geeks became a real cult success since it was on the air. What was it like to work on and were you surprised by how it has stayed popular years after its run?
Yeah. That really changed my life. That was, in a lot of ways, the start of my career. I met Judd Apatow doing Freaks and Geeks. Judd taught me how to write and I’ve written quite a bit since then. I’m on my third script, now. One of them is with Judd at Universal, hopefully to be done this hiatus. We did that together, and then we did Undeclared, and we did a pilot together that didn’t get picked up, called North Hollywood. We just finished a movie called Knocked Up. So, I think more than anything, it was meeting Judd during that period that changed my life. He’s been a real mentor to me.
They also talk about the “Aunt Robin” line and how the writers were a little disapointed they had written them into this corner for the entirety of the show. Jason does remind us that they are both incredible writers and they could surely write a way out of that first episode line. We’ll just have to see!
[Thanks KM for sending this in!]








