Jason Segel finds his calm even amid the comically dark territory of 'Shrinking'

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Jason Segel finds his calm even amid the comically dark territory of 'Shrinking'
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The actor and co-creator plays a therapist grieving the loss of his wife on the Apple TV+ series. Sounds sad, but the show blends high and low comedy with weighty themes and melancholic moments.

Jason Segel is sitting at a table outside Jones Coffee on Mission Street in South Pasadena, a short walk from his home — too short, in fact, if he’s hoping to make much of a dent in the 15,000 steps he needs to do today as part of an exercise program he just started with his girlfriend. He comes here from time to time. A string quartet sets up and plays on Sunday, pretty dreamy even with the Metro trains clanging through every few minutes.

“Being there had the really interesting side-effect of realizing — after six weeks time, mind you — that, ‘Oh, my gosh. I finally feel calm,’” Segel says. “And it occurred to me that when you’re doing this job and living in L.A., you’re never leaving campus.” He laughs. “So it was like this whole new experience to realize that when someone outside of Hollywood asks, ‘What are you up to?’ they mean, like, right now. So the answer is: ‘Oh.

“He could run for mayor of South Pasadena,” I tell Segel’s friend and collaborator, James Ponsoldt, who directed him in “The End of the Tour” and several episodes of “Shrinking,” the 2023 Apple TV+ series that Segel co-created.“When we were shooting ‘The End of the Tour,’ I felt he could be the mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich.,” Ponsoldt answers, laughing. “I’ve worked with other actors who are pretty famous, and Jason is singular. People feel like they know him.

Segel goes on, telling me he knows what it’s like to pull yourself out of rock bottom and that it’s “actually quite funny and sloppy and confusing and you’re laughing a lot and you’re crying a lot and you’re making mistakes and you’re getting it right.” Earlier, we had been talking about the years he spent living in a house directly behind the Chateau Marmont, the Sunset Boulevard hotel that has long been a symbol of Hollywood glamour and excess.

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