Jason Segel on Why He Left Hollywood for a ‘Little Country Town’

Jason Segel is opening up about his motive for leaving Hollywood following the success of How I Met Your Mom.

The actor made a current look on the Right this moment present, the place Hoda Kotb introduced up Segel’s determination to maneuver out of Los Angeles as soon as the CBS sitcom wrapped in 2014. “You probably did one thing so attention-grabbing,” she mentioned. “Lots of people would’ve simply taken an enormous dive into Hollywood, however you probably did one thing else. You pulled up stakes and moved away from all that. Why’d you try this?”

“I used to be having a very roaring twenties,” the Shrinking star and co-creator responded. “I had How I Met Your Mom and I used to be additionally writing a bunch of flicks that have been profitable and doing nicely.”

Nonetheless, attributable to his busy work schedule with How I Met Your Mom and films like 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Segel realized he wasn’t “doing a variety of private check-ins.”

“I spotted that artwork is meant to be a mirrored image of what you’re going by and I truly wasn’t going by a lot life-wise,” he added. In order that’s when he determined to alter up his surroundings to hopefully create a way of peace in his life.

“I moved out of L.A.,” Segel mentioned. “I moved to a little bit nation city and I began to ask myself questions like, ‘What do you truly like? What are you truly fascinated about proper now? Who do you need to be as a performer and an artist?’”

The This Is the Finish actor beforehand advised the Los Angeles Occasions in June 2023 that he had moved to Ojai, California, a small city in Ventura County.

“Being there had the actually attention-grabbing side-effect of realizing — after six weeks time, thoughts you — that, ‘Oh, my gosh. I lastly really feel calm,’” he mentioned on the time. “And it occurred to me that while you’re doing this job and dwelling in L.A., you’re by no means leaving campus.” 

Segel continued, “So it was like this entire new expertise to comprehend that when somebody outdoors of Hollywood asks, ‘What are you as much as?’ they imply, like, proper now. So the reply is: ‘Oh. I’m on my solution to the grocery retailer,’ not ‘I’ve three tasks in growth.’”