Jason Siegel He thought about his place Freaks and Geeks Nick Andopolis' character would be today, but the answer is tragic.
“In my opinion, he gets sent to war and he doesn't make it,” Siegel, 44, said. GQ On Wednesday, December 18th. “That was always a looming threat for Nick, and that's what happens to a lot of men of that generation and socioeconomic status.”
Segel had that in mind when he was originally set up He played Nick at NBC short-lived series, adding: “That's how I always thought about playing him. For Nick, the desperation in his character is that the alternative is not succeeding. And that's what he felt, like: 'I'm going to knock my way out of this.'” How sad, because you won't Drum your way out of this situation.
Freaks and Geeks, which has been developed by Judd Apatow and Paul FeigIt premiered in 1999 and is set in a suburb of Detroit in the 1980s. The series follows teenager Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini), who fell into the crowd of shirking “freaks” and her brother Sam (John Francis Daly), who tried to navigate high school life with his “nerdy” friends.
Although it does not last long, Freaks and Geeks Phase A Cult fan base.
“To this day, I think I didn’t want to admit that Freaks and Geeks was cancelled,” Apatow said during a 2014 talk at the Paley Center. “Everything I did, in a way, was payback for the people who canceled Freaks and Geeks.”
Freaks and Geeks It helped develop the career of Segel, who continued to book comedic roles on hit shows like how i met your mother and Shrink. Behind the scenes, Segel was quite in demand, as the Freaks and Geeks writer previously revealed she was He admired the actor.
“While I adored most of the actors (V Freaks and Geeks), I've become particularly close to Jason Segel. He played Nick, Lindsay's love-obsessed drummer. Patty Lynn She wrote in her diary of 2023, End credits: How I broke up with Hollywood. “He was only 19 at the time, and he wasn't the type to make girls swoon, but he was cute. He had warm brown eyes, a goofy smile, and a tall, skinny body, like a tall basketball player. In fact, he played basketball.” The basket, just like his personality.”
It didn't take long for Lynn to develop a relationship with Seagal – even though she… He already had a boyfriend.
“That's when I started to have feelings for Jason, despite the nine-year age gap between us and the fact that I already had a boyfriend,” she recalls. “We talked about acting and writing, our career goals, his fear of fame, our love of privacy and need for solitude. It was the kind of conversation that makes you fall in love with someone. Judd (Apatow) He once told me that he had a conversation like this in the car with the actress Leslie Mannwhen they were working on Cable guy. They ended up getting married.”
It's over for Segal Lin politely turned down Before he started dating Cardellini, who is now 49 years old. After their breakup in 2007, Siegel was linked to… Bojana Novakovic And then Alexis MixerWho he dated from 2013 to 2021. He is currently dating a professional dancer Kayla Radomski.