Unless you’re living under a rock or a self-imposed media blackout, you know by now that Jason Segel reveals his flaccid wang in the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced disaster romance comedy, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
The young Segel has talked up a storm about how the key nude scene in the film – his girlfriend breaks up with him while he’s stark naked – came from real life a incident.
“I was trying to experience [the situation] viscerally, as a person,” Mr. Segel told the New York Times. “But all I could think was: ‘This is hilarious. I cannot wait for her to leave so I can write this down.’ ”
“I had a naked breakup,” he told Heeb, “and while it was happening, I was so aware it was ridiculous and I was telling myself, ‘This is going to be hilarious at some point.’ [Filming the scene was] terrifying. It’s the worst thing you could ever do.”
“It was horrible.” he told Coming Soon of the incident. “My girlfriend came over and I assumed it was to have sex. She didn’t even give me a chance to put a towel on and this breakup commences, I knew at the moment I should feel upset, but instead I knew I just had experienced the funniest thing that would ever happen to anybody.”
“[When] women…see a naked, out-of-shape man crying and it’s funny — something weird, disturbing and disgusting we can all laugh at,” Segel told the L.A. Times of mining the semi-painful experience for twisted comedy.
What he’s not telling people is the incident (likely) happened with his ex-“Freaks & Geeks” first love, Linda Cardellini. The two went out for a whopping five years and many scenes in ‘Sarah Marshall’ are based on specific events in that relationship — especially when walking press lines with his more famous girlfriend (at least at the time), Segel would get yelled at by the paparazzi to step out of the frame so they could photograph her without him (there’s a scene in ‘Marshall’ exactly like this).
So did Cardellini, now an “E.R.” star break-up with Jason Segel when he was naked and dangling in the wind? (“E.R.” isn’t that far off from the spoof medical crime drama, “Crime Scene”, that Segel’s love interest in the film Kristen Bell stars in) Now that Segel is about to become the adored It-boy for 20-30-something girls across America, is Cardellini about to endure some wrath?
We’re surprised none of the press has asked her yet. How could you break poor, cute Jason Segel’s heart?
Update: Entertainment Weekly says that particular nude break-up wasn’t with Cardellini, but maybe Segel was lying to spare her? There is after all moments from the relationship in the film, but then again, who doesn’t write what they know?
Meanwhile, check out Aloha Sex Juice’s Hawaiian version of Extreme’s “More Than Words” from the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” soundtrack.