In the hands of a less gifted actor, it wouldn't work."Īccording to Rudd, Segel does something that no one else does: "He is simultaneously hilarious and creepy" and also does a great impersonation of the "Princess Bride's" good-hearted giant, Fezzik. He tries to give me a nickname 'Jobin,' which makes no sense. Rudd and Segel said they're fans of each other, and Segel praised Rudd, saying, "Paul plays a character who always gets things a bit wrong. The two even offered an impromptu rendition of "Confrontation (Javert & Valjean)" from the Broadway musical "Les Misérables," before mixing up their parts half-way through the song, prompting Travers to put an end to the performance. To keep them in line, Rudd recalled Hamburg saying, "there is a crew of 50 people who want to go to lunch now." Their "comedic gold," as Rudd described it, wasn't lost on Hamburg, who allowed them to improv as much as they wanted. That's the problem with New York apartments and the bad economy."Īsked whether they watched any "buddy movies" or romantic comedies for inspiration, Segel said "Fried Green Tomatoes" only to be one-upped by Rudd's answer: "Sophie's Choice" - "a great comedy," he sagely noted, with Segel nodding in agreement.Įxplaining their clear lack of research, Segel declared they wanted to reinvent a whole new genre. We were just hanging out not doing anything special, but when I woke up I had tears streaming down my face, so I called him and told him I missed him," said Segel in a rare serious moment. For Segel, the feeling of loss was unexpected. Segel offered an anecdote about his own guy love: He and his childhood best friend lived together until a year ago, when his friend left for medical school. It's convenient that the actors' friendship is palpable - the two became fast friends on the set of "Knocked Up." As Rudd put it, "I like to say we're on the same sunbeam." Jason Segel tries to identify quotes from some of his roles in 'Knocked Up', 'Shrinking' and 'How I Met Your Mother.' He also shares the true story behind the breakup scene. Written and directed by John Hamburg, who previously wrote and directed "Along Came Polly," "I Love You, Man" is a story about platonic love between two grown men. "The movie really picks up when I arrive," joked Segel "Yeah, that's when it really kicks in," grinned Rudd. To rectify this, he goes on a series of bizarre, awkward man-dates until he meets Sydney Fife (Jason Segel, of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall").īoth actors recently sat down with ABC News Now's "Popcorn With Peter Travers" to talk about their romantic comedy, in theaters March 20. Klaven suddenly realizes to his dismay that he's a "lonely man" who doesn't have any good male friends. In "I Love You, Man," Peter Klaven (played by Paul Rudd, of "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin") proposes to Zooey (Rashida Jones, of "The Office") who excitedly calls her girlfriends with the good news and asks him if he wants to call his. Like a single searching for a soul mate, he enters the dating scene all over again to search for the one, but this is the one with whom he wants to drink beer and watch football, not walk down the aisle. 11, 2009 — - What's a man to do when he discovers, after getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, that he has no male friends close enough to be his best man? We shot all her stuff in two days, and every second she was ridiculously funny.Feb. “The person who gets madder and madder, and then can’t control themselves. “She came in and she read for a couple of parts in the movie and that just made me laugh, that attitude,” Apatow says of McCarthy’s angry mother. PHOTOS: This Is Judd Apatow: The King of Comedy’s Life in PicturesĪs for Segel and Yi, the only crossovers outside Pete and Debbie’s immediate storyline, Apatow explains: “It seemed like it made sense that Jason Segel, who had a crush on Debbie, would still be hanging around…And Charlyne Yi, who was kind of the stoned girlfriend of Martin Starr, I thought it would be odd to choose her to be the one person that you would see from that world.”īut it’s McCarthy who will leave audiences reeling, stealing the show as a school mom who takes aim at Pete and Debbie’s parenting skills. I want to kind of stay focused on this story'” “You’d have to really give them a big hunk of the movie, and I thought, ‘Well that’s a movie for another day. “I mean, it’s not like you could put them in for a minute,” he adds. “But to me, this was so about Pete and Debbie that if you pass through two incredibly hilarious, charismatic people, the audience would say, ‘Well, what else are they doing?'” “I thought if the audience saw the cut and said, ‘We must know where they are and what they’re doing’ ,” says Apatow. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, writer and director Judd Apatow explains their absence and notes that another sequel, focused on those characters, could come in the future.
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