Jason Segel is opening up about his purpose for leaving Hollywood following the success of How I Met Your Mom.
The actor made a current look on the Immediately present, the place Hoda Kotb introduced up Segel’s determination to maneuver out of Los Angeles as soon as the CBS sitcom wrapped in 2014. “You did something so interesting,” she mentioned. “A lot of people would’ve just taken a big dive into Hollywood, but you did something else. You pulled up stakes and moved away from all that. Why’d you do that?”
“I was having a really roaring twenties,” the Shrinking star and co-creator responded. “I had How I Met Your Mother and I was also writing a bunch of movies that were successful and doing well.”
Nonetheless, resulting from his busy work schedule with How I Met Your Mom and films like 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Segel realized he wasn’t “doing a lot of personal check-ins.”
“I realized that art is supposed to be a reflection of what you’re going through and I actually wasn’t going through much life-wise,” he added. In order that’s when he determined to vary up his setting to hopefully create a sense of peace in his life.
“I moved out of L.A.,” Segel mentioned. “I moved to a little country town and I started to ask myself questions 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?’”
The This Is the Finish actor beforehand advised the Los Angeles Instances in June 2023 that he had moved to Ojai, California, a small city in Ventura County.
“Being there had the really interesting side-effect of realizing — after six weeks time, mind you — that, ‘Oh, my gosh. I finally feel calm,’” he mentioned on the time. “And it occurred to me that when you’re doing this job and living in L.A., you’re never leaving campus.”
Segel continued, “So it was like this whole new experience to realize that when someone outside of Hollywood asks, ‘What are you up to?’ they mean, like, right now. So the answer is: ‘Oh. I’m on my way to the grocery store,’ not ‘I have three projects in development.’”
