Jason Segel Was Forced To Live With Kevin Hart While Filming A Pilot
Actor Jason Segel was forced to live with Kevin Hart while filming an unaired comedy pilot in 2001. While that show didn't make it, they both subsequently starred in Undeclared. Segel has had an extensive career in both television and film, starring in such hits as Gulliver's Travels, The End of the Tour, and most recently Windfall, a thriller starring Jesse Plemons which is currently streaming on Netflix. The actor first got his start in television with comedy writer-director Judd Apatow, who has periodically teamed up with Segel throughout their careers.
Segel's first television appearance came in Apatow's showFreaks and Geeks before joining the showrunner's second show, Undeclared, along with Hart. The Fox sitcom was originally released in 2001 and centered on a small group of college freshmen recently enrolled at the fictional University of Northeastern California. Segel starred as Eric, the manager of a copy shop and obsessive ex-boyfriend of Lizzie (Carla Gallo). Comedian Hart played the smaller role of Luke, a religious student who manages to convert the Jewish Steven Karp (Jay Baruchel) to Christianity.
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During a recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (via Cinema Blend), Jason Segel revealed that he was forced to live with Kevin Hart while working on a new Apatow comedy in the early 2000s. When asked about an unsold pilot Segel worked on with Hart, Amy Poehler, and Judge Reinhold, before moving on to Undeclared, the actor revealed that Apatow made Hart move in with Segel in his small apartment. Apatow told the actor that having the two of them living together would help their chemistry on the show. Read what Segel had to say below.
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