Jason Segel on how 'self-exploration' led him to Dispatches From Elsewhere
“Part of your responsibility if you want to make anything resembling art is that you are performing some act of self-exploration on behalf of the audience,” Segel tells EW. “And so the things that I’m interested in and the things that I’m thinking about are changing as I’m getting older. It just didn’t seem relevant anymore to write about being devastated about a girl or learning how to stand on my own two feet. I wasn’t really interested in writing about stunted adolescence as I approached 40.
Segel decided the who he wanted to explore those questions through was Peter, the de-facto leader of this group of misfits. And the actor couldn’t help but identify with the same crisis facing his character.
Considering his story is built on a mystery, Segel doesn’t want to reveal too much, although he’s willing to share the connection to a familiar tale. “What the show is about, parallel to that mystery, is four people in states of isolation and existential crisis on these character journeys, a lot like. And the journey along the yellow brick road is just as important as reaching Oz.”
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