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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

00:50humanity and life is complicated and so everything that we've tried to do

00:53writing wise on shrinking and stuff I write is kind of that model. I always

00:58bring a coffee maker to every set that I'm working on because I like to leave

01:03no trace. I like I don't like to ask people for things I like to show up do

01:07acting and disappear into the night like a phantom. If I could switch jobs for a day

01:12I would probably teach kids acting. I think over like the past 25 years I've

01:17actually acquired some skills and a way to prep and some things that I didn't know

01:22when I was a kid because I started so young and so I would like to teach kids

01:27like simple prep that I've learned that has been really helpful to me over the

01:31past a decade. You know what I actually weirdly watch the John Wick series like

01:35really really frequently because I've seen them so much and they're kind of like

01:39awesome background noise now as I'm doing work and so I can glance up and get

01:43like a micro burst of entertainment and then get back to what I'm doing. This is

01:47gonna be the most boring answer but on the way over here I was listening to my

01:50lines for next week because I record them when I get the scripts I record the

01:54entire script so I can listen to it like a play and then I do the entire script

01:58doing everybody's lines except my own so then I can run it like leaving gaps and

02:02then I can run the whole show. So by the time I arrive on set I've done I've done

02:06the episode like a bunch of times. I started doing that on a movie I was really

02:10afraid of called The End of the Tour. I played what would Edward Norton do because I

02:14had no way to prep I like I had no training so I just tried to imagine what a good

02:18actor would do and I like made up a prep system and I still use it to this day

02:22and that's what I teach those fucking kids. If my co-stars ever heard my

02:26recordings I think they would probably be offended because I have to do like

02:29basically impressions of everybody on the show so I know who's who so yes I've

02:33gotten I've gotten actually pretty accurate I think at everybody but I'm

02:36not gonna do them now don't ask. I usually play like a guy who's like having a

02:42hard time with something who's trying to make his way out of it and

02:45everyone's like oh I hope I hope he gets I hope he gets out of this jam he's in.

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