Jason Segel Shares How He Preps to Film an Episode of Apple TV+ Show 'Shrinking' | Off Script Moment - video Dailymotion

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THR pulls Jason Segel aside for some "Off Script" moments ahead of his THR Roundtable interview and shares the last thing he googled, his trailer must-haves and what he would be doing if he didn't become an actor. Plus, he gives THR his personal prep for filming an episode of his Apple TV+ show 'Shrinking.'

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00:00I have a little dog named Dash who's my perfect boy. He's about this big and we

00:11would be hanging out and you know we'd be talking about just like how he's doing

00:15and he'd lick my face and then maybe we take a little walk. The studio, TV show,

00:20cast. It's a really easy one for me. I'm gonna go with broadcast news. Both the

00:25writing, James L. Brooks in his prime but also all three of those performances

00:31William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter are three of the best comic

00:34performances I've ever seen. I tried to like steal it for forgetting Sarah

00:37Marshall but one of the things that really struck me from that movie is that

00:41in a lesser movie one of those guys turns out to be a villain so the choice is

00:46really clear but in that movie everyone's just living in their full humanity and

00:51life is complicated and so everything that we've tried to do writing wise on

00:54drinking and stuff I write is kind of that model. I always bring a coffee maker

00:59to every set that I'm working on because I like to leave no trace. I like I don't

01:04like to ask people for things I like to show up do acting and disappear into the

01:09night like a phantom. If I could switch jobs for a day I would probably teach kids

01:14acting. I think over like the past 25 years I've actually acquired some skills

01:20and a way to prep and some things that I didn't know when I was a kid because I

01:23started so young and so I would like to teach kids like simple prep that I've

01:28learned that has been really helpful to me over the past a decade. You know what I

01:32actually weirdly watch the John Wick series like really really frequently

01:36because I've seen them so much and they're kind of like awesome background

01:40noise now as I'm doing work and so I can glance up and get like a micro burst of

01:44entertainment and then get back to what I'm doing. This is gonna be the most

01:47boring answer but on the way over here I was listening to my lines for next week

01:51because I record them when I get the scripts I record the entire script so I

01:55can listen to it like a play and then I do the entire script doing everybody's

01:58lines except my own so then I can run it like leaving gaps and then I can run the

02:03whole show. So by the time I arrive on set I've done I've done the episode like a

02:07bunch of times. I started doing that on a movie I was really afraid of called the

02:11end of the tour. I played what would Edward Norton do because I had no way to prep

02:15like I had no training so I just tried to imagine what a good actor would do and I

02:19like made up a prep system and I still use it to this day and that's what I teach

02:23those fucking kids. If my co-stars ever heard my recordings I think they would

02:27probably be offended because I have to do like basically impressions of

02:30everybody on the show so I know who's who so yes I've gotten I've gotten

02:34actually pretty accurate I think at everybody but I'm not gonna do them now

02:37don't ask. I usually play like a guy who's like having a hard time with

02:43something who's trying to make his way out of it and everyone's like oh I hope I hope he

02:47gets his I hope he gets out of this jam he's in.

Jason Segel Shares How He Preps to Film an Episode of Apple TV+ Show 'Shrinking' | Off Script Moment

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