“I know having played the part has definitely affected my behavior during quarantine.”
“I call my friends every day,” he says.
“One of the things that was really moving about the story is to see a friend be active.
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A friend in action is not normally how we live.
And that goes for his relationship with his parents, too.
“It’s as simple as, I now call my parents every day.
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Without fail,” he says.
And we talk for two minutes, and that’s done.
And I do it with a bunch of my friends just on the regular now.”
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He pauses before emphatically adding, “It goes a f—ing.
Keeping the connection alive.
So I got to create Dane from scratch vs. having to mimic anybody.”
“It was so uncomfortable.
In the script it just says, ‘Dane does stand-up.’
There were no jokes written.
They just figured that I would know how to do this.”
And it was even harder than Segel expected.
“I had to walk this tightrope of slightly-better-than-average jokes.
“They were totally inappropriate for a cancer drama.
Just straight-up raunchy humor.
I don’t think I did a good enough job setting up the context.
They didn’t make the cut, thank God.”
“That was the best experience of my acting career, doing those scenes,” he says.
God, it was stunning.”
How is this person f—ed up?
And then finding the lovable part of them in spite of that is where the beauty lives."
But after 2014’sSex Tapewith Cameron Diaz, Segel decided to leave comedy behind for something more serious.
“It was very interesting to me to find out what I was capable of,” he says.
I’ve done a few since, including this."
However, Segel reveals that he isn’t done with comedy for good.
“So finding things across the spectrum that I enjoy is now my goal.
As for what’s next?
I’m excited about that, I haven’t written a movie a few years.
It’s been neat to stretch that muscle again.
I hope it is as good as I think it could be.”
But for now, he just wants to be the best friend he can be.
And have a good cathartic cry, thanks toOur Friend.
“I love a good ugly cry,” he says with a laugh.
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