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Jason Segel Tried to Leave Comedy for Drama: ‘It Turns Out Nobody Gives a S***’

When Jason Segel left comedy to pursue dramatic roles, he says that nobody gave a s***.

Then he did the 2015 film “The End of the Tour,” where he played the late novelist David Foster Wallace, which earned Segel excellent reviews. Looking back on the experience today, he said, “Nobody saw [the movie], but I felt like, ‘You can do it.’ And so that was important for me, because I didn’t want to be the guy who sat his whole life wondering if he could do something.” I’m kind of a town mascot,” he explained, saying that a man saw him from across the street and texted Lawrence saying, “‘Hey, Jason Segel seems like a happy guy.

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