Jason Segel ’s departure from Hollywood? We’ll allow it. After finishing his nine-season run as Marshall Eriksen on How I Met Your Mother in 2014, the actor opted to move out of Los Angeles for a quieter life in a small town—despite a string of hits like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I Love You, Man . “I was having a really roaring 20s,” Jason, 44, told Hoda Kotb during an interview on the Today show Oct.
16. “I had How I Met Your Mother and I was also writing a bunch of movies that were successful and doing well, but I wasn’t doing a lot of personal check-ins because I was so busy.” “I realized that art is supposed to be a reflection of what you’re going through,” he continued, “and I actually wasn’t going through much life-wise.
So at 33 years old, I’m like, ‘Why am I still writing movies about being afraid of girls?’” Upon leaving L.A. and heading northwest for Ojai, Calif.
—which he described as “calm” in a 2023 interview with the Los Angeles Times —the Shrinking star began doing the soul-searching he craved. “I started to ask myself questions,” he shared, “like, ‘What do you actually like? What are you actually thinking about right now? Who do you want to be as a performer and an artist?’” And as it turned out, Jason’s self-reflection ended up influencing his work, including the 2023 dramatic comedy. He concluded, “ Shrinking is the culmination of, ‘Oh, I care about dramatic themes and exploring those things, and.