After ‘Shrinking“Star Jason sail the wrapped nine seasons of multi-cam sitcom “How I met your mom” In 2014, he decided he wanted to break out of his comedy form. But sail said he met with resistance from the industry.
“(It) was like a decade of being on a show and making a bunch of romantic comedies and stuff, I decided to see if I was good at drama, and so I, like, pigeon,” sail said Thr’s Comedy Actor Roundable. And I thought, “Look out the world. Here’s going to make me drama.” And it turns out no shit. ”
Then he made the 2015 movie “The End of the Tour”, where he played the late novelist David Foster Wallace, who got sail excellent reviews. Richard Lawson wrote on Vanity Fair“Sailing handles Walce’s intricate, discursive speech with remarkable skill and puts Wallace’s brilliant, worried mind for all of us to admire, while succeeding in playing a human being.”
Said sail at that time “I wanted to do something different. I needed to make a change. If I have to do this for 50 years, it must reflect what I feel.”
Looking back on the experience Today he said, “no one saw (the movie), but I felt like:” You can do it. “And so it was important to me, because I didn’t want to be the guy who sat all his life and wondered if he could do something.”
Sail remembered that “The End of the Tour” director James Ponsoldt told him, “Every time you do comedy I can say you want to kill yourself.” “A man on the inside” star Ted Danson, who also participated in the round table, added, “If you are really good at comedy, I think you also have a grief that you are in contact with.”
Several years after ”The end of the world“Sail moved to the picturesque village of Ojai, California. One day a friend of” shrinking “produced producer Bill Lawrence saw sail going in town.
“I’m a big bird. I’m walking around. I’m waving on everyone. I’m a kind of a city mascot,” he explained, saying that a man saw him from all over the street and texted Lawrence and said: “Hello, Jason sail seems like a happy guy. Let’s work with him. “
In the end, sail has found that a balance between comedy and drama is what he most responds to in his projects. He calls James L. Brook’s “The King” of this strategy and notes that his films clarify that “life is complicated.”
“There are no heroes and villains, and you cry through the fun things and laugh through the tough things,” he explained.
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