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Jason Segel Takes the Lead in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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MM: Did you always want to be a lead character in a movie? Was that your goal or did you have aspirations to write also?
JS: I’ve been writing since I was younger. I wrote my first script when I was 21 or 22, something like that, but I’ve been writing for about 10 years. My idols are guys like Albert Brooks and Woody Allen who write their own material and craft it and perform in it, so I feel very lucky.
MM: How did you feel when you were on set for the first day and everyone was reciting your lines—you saw them coming to life?
JS: It was so exciting for me. Someone asked me, “Was it a thrill to see great actors reading your material?” The truth is, it was a thrill to see such great actors changing my material and improving it. I got really blessed with an amazing cast.
MM: Nick Stoller said that there was a good deal of improvisation on the set. Did you write with that in mind—thinking that you would have a certain cast of characters, maybe who you’d worked with before?
JS: Well, I’d hoped that I would get some of this group of like-minded collaborators who did Virgin and Knocked Up to come and do parts of the movie. To be honest, I think it had very little to do with me and much more to do with the fact that it was shot in Hawaii.
MM: You said you look to Woody Allen and Albert Brooks for inspiration. Did you look to any movies in particular that inspired you, or any television shows that inspired you, for this movie?
JS: The template of Broadcast News inspired me a bit. I thought that the way they set up the love triangle was maybe one of my favorite dynamics I’ve ever seen in a movie, so I wanted to do something similar to that. I like the idea of having people caught up in the middle of attraction and not knowing which way to lean.
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