Jason Segel landed Freaks and Geeks by putting Judd Apatow and Paul Feig in a deadlock

[ad_1] Freaks and Geeks star Jason Segel remembers duking it out with James Franco, ensuing within the character being break up into two.

Possibly Joan Jett doesn’t give a rattling about her fame, however Jason Segel’s was ok that he principally had his Freaks and Geeks character written for him…and it was unlinked from one other.

Like just about everyone that was about to enter William McKinley Excessive Faculty in 1999 (or 1980 if we’re placing ourselves in Freaks and Geeks), Jason Segel was an entire no one. However he was making an attempt to make it within the enterprise, and after touchdown the fitting contacts and a few minor gigs, he bought the prospect to audition for what would turn out to be among the best cult traditional reveals ever.

Talking with GQ, Jason Segel remembered him vying for a key function on Freaks and Geeks, solely to seek out the powers that be at a standstill. “The Freaks and Geeks script got here throughout, and I learn it and I cherished it. And I confirmed up completely blind and chilly. I didn’t know anybody. And Judd [Apatow] and Paul Feig had been there and so they had me improv slightly bit and I had the naivety of youth. I wasn’t scared at that time…Subsequent factor I knew, I used to be introduced in for a callback with James Franco and we had been – so far as we knew – competing for a similar half. As a result of on the time, there was solely a kind of characters. Daniel and Nick had been only one character on the time. So we went in and we auditioned in opposition to one another. They favored us each and so they break up the half, and he turned the cool one, and I turned the goofy one.”

That’s one heck of a praise to each Jason Segel and James Franco, though it’s unusual to consider drummer/Rush aficionado Nick Andopolis and recurring toker/class skipper Daniel Desario sharing the identical DNA outdoors of being freaks (versus geeks).

As Freaks and Geeks – which marked its 25h anniversary this 12 months – solely lasted one season, we by no means bought an opportunity to see what turned of the characters. And since we’ll seemingly – and, if we’re being trustworthy, hopefully – by no means getting a reboot, Segel can solely think about what turned of Nick. “The unhappy reply to the place I believe Nick is now…in my thoughts, he will get despatched off to warfare and doesn’t make it. That was at all times the menace looming for Nick…” Was form of hoping he would have gone full Neil Peart in a canopy band, however no matter you suppose, Jason!