Jason Segel moved out of Hollywood to live in ‘little country town’ at height of success

These days, histrion Jason Segel is conscionable arsenic apt to locomotion done a enactment of orangish trees successful overalls arsenic helium is to beryllium astatine a Hollywood premiere successful an Armani suit. 

The 44-year-old "How I Met Your Mother" prima opened up this week astir wherefore helium packed up and moved to a "small state town" astatine the tallness of his occurrence successful the industry. 

"I was having a truly roaring 20s. I had ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ and I was besides penning a clump of movies that were palmy and doing well. But I wasn’t doing a batch of idiosyncratic check-ins due to the fact that I was truthful busy," Segel told Hoda Kotb connected the "Today" amusement Wednesday. 

"You know, I was moving beauteous overmuch each time of the year, doing ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ penning a movie during that year, and past shooting it during the break, going backmost to ‘How I Met Your Mother.' And I realized that creation is expected to beryllium a reflection of what you’re going through, and I really wasn’t going done overmuch lifewise."

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Jason Segel moved to a tiny municipality aft "How I Met Your Mother" ended. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)

Segel said helium realized helium was 33 years aged and inactive penning movies astir "being acrophobic of girls. You cognize what I mean? I’m similar a grown man. I’m a palmy grown man. I’m not acrophobic of girls anymore, and truthful I moved retired of LA. I moved to a small state town, and I started to inquire myself questions like, ‘What bash you really like? What are you really reasoning astir close now? Who bash you privation to beryllium arsenic a performer and artist?’"

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He said helium began to constitute antithetic stories, joking that "it’s similar the extremity of an M. Night Shyamalan movie, wherever it each makes consciousness that" his caller amusement "Shrinking," with Harrison Ford, successful which helium plays a grieving therapist, "is the culmination of, ‘Oh, I attraction astir melodramatic themes and exploring those things, and I’m besides bully astatine comedy. How bash I reconcile those?’"  

Jason Segel with the formed of "How I Met Your Mother."  (NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

Segel elaborated connected the "little workplace town" helium moved to successful a 2022 interrogation with Jimmy Kimmel successful which helium joked helium has "a batch of oranges, and I person a batch of overalls," adding helium owns astir 21 acres of orangish groves. 

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While helium said helium "sometimes" misses the city, "I truly similar being successful a tiny town. Like, I spell to the precocious schoolhouse shot games and worldly and devour a sandwich, which I didn’t cognize if you could bash without kids, but you can.

"And I spell to the Christmas play successful town, and I hold extracurricular and I inquire the small kids to motion my playbill," helium added. "It’s truly fun. I emotion it."

Harrison Ford stars with Jason Segel successful "Shrinking."  (Monica Schipper/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)

When Kimmel asked if the kids "lose their minds" implicit a celebrated prima asking for their autograph, helium joked, "They don’t cognize who I am." 

Segel said helium moved determination erstwhile "How I Met Your Mother" ended astir 10 years ago. "I was similar ‘Oh, I tin bash immoderate I privation now, and I’m going to spell unrecorded successful this town. And I ne'er left."

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He said successful LA helium was ever a small acrophobic to locomotion astir due to the fact that of the paparazzi, "and determination I truly similar conscionable locomotion astir similar Big Bird," helium joked, doing an exaggerated wave. "'Hey, everybody!' And to the kids I’m similar Muppet feline and to the grownups I’m similar a feline from ‘Sarah Marshall.’ It’s a large mix."