Because it turned out, you most likely loved watching him on the present method greater than he loved performing on it.
Whereas showing as a part of The Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actor Roundtable sequence, Jason revealed that on the peak of HIMYM‘s success, he was really “actually sad.”
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“There was a interval in my life and profession across the final couple of years of How I Met Your Mom the place issues had been firing in each films and TV, and everybody was telling me how effectively it was going,” he defined.
“I then needed to grapple with why? What’s off about this equation? I believe the factor that I used to be confronted with is that it is actually nice to make the choice of ‘Fuck it, I do what I need,’ however sadly, there is a system of permission in place the place folks will go, ‘We don’t give a shit.’ Like, ‘Good for you, man.'”
Jason additionally mentioned that after HIMYM led to 2014, he “didn’t know what I wished to do subsequent.” “I actually questioned if I used to be really adequate to do drama,” he admitted.
He pointed to his portrayal of late author David Foster Wallace within the 2014 movie The Finish of the Tour for example of a difficult function that discovered him working exterior his consolation zone.
“You prep in another way for comedy,” he defined. “There was loads of improv in how we got here up, and these had been massive chunks of dialogue. I actually simply performed in my head, ‘What would Edward Norton do?'”
“I obtained a dialect coach and I did all these items that I heard you do in case you’re an actual actor. However man, I used to be scared.”
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