How I Met Your Mother may have been one of the biggest sitcoms of the past two decades, but it turns out that one if its stars was miser ― wait for it ― able.
Jason Segel recently joined The Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actor Roundtable for a video released online last week.
During the discussion, the Shrinking star spoke about some of his true feelings toward the end of the nine-season CBS show.
“There was a period in my life and career around the last couple years of How I Met Your Mother where things were firing on both movies and TV, and everyone was telling me how well it was going, and I was really unhappy,” Jason said.
The actor said he had to ask himself: “Why? What’s off about this equation?”
During his time playing Marshall Eriksen on the award-winning comedy series, Segel also starred in a number of hit movies, including Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man and This Is 40.
Despite knowing that he “should” have felt accomplished in his career, he still sensed that “something was off”.
“It goes back to a lot of the discussions we [at the roundtable] were having about making sure that what you’re doing is some sort of act of self-exploration — like there’s a reason you’re doing it,” he said.
Watch the full video ― which also includes Mo Amer, John Mulaney, Tyler James Williams and Steven Yeun ― here. Jason’s comments about his unhappiness fall around the 38-minute mark.