Jason Segel talks about working with Cobie Smulders once more
Jason Segel just lately reunited with How I Met Your Mom co-star Cobie Smulders on the set of Shrinking season 2.
The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star expressed his delight over reuniting with Smulders in an interview with Selection, describing it as “a dream”.
“We did nine years of How I Met Your Mother and that was never part of the Marshall/Robin dynamic so it was this gap in our acting experience together,” he instructed the outlet whereas reflecting on the unexplored chemistry between their characters from the hit sitcom.
Smulders made a cameo in Segel’s present, Shrinking, on its December 11 episode. The 44-year-old actor revealed that the response of the viewers was fairly welcoming.
“I think the reason people are reacting to it, the reason it feels like, ‘Oh, I would like to see them together again’ is this is a scene where two people are meeting for the first time,” he shared.
“But you’re supposed to have some other sense of, ‘Whoa, what’s going on there?’”
Segel said that that it’s “cool” how he has recognized Smulders for “10 years” of their “most formative years, through thick and thin and becoming who you are” and now they’re “standing across from each other as full-grown adults saying, ‘Look at us still here, still standing.’”
Drawing parallel between their characters and actual life, he stated that, identical to their characters, he and Smulders have been via some “tough sh-t side by side”.
Shrinking season 2 final episode will premiere on December twenty fifth, 2024.