Actor Jason Segel’s favourite Lakers participant was Kobe Bryant ― and never only for his recreation expertise. (Watch the video beneath.)
On “Jimmy Kimmel Reside” Thursday, the “How I Met Your Mom” alum recalled how Bryant inadvertently helped him land a movie position when a studio head didn’t need to rent him. Segel had filmed the 2008 comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” however “hadn’t finished that a lot stuff,” the actor stated.
Segel’s company had organized for him to sit down subsequent to the reticent movie boss at a Lakers recreation ― and it was awkward. “He doesn’t wanna be there, he has no concept who I'm,” Segel stated.
“Rapidly,” the actor continued, “Kobe noticed me out of the nook of his eye, he left the layup strains, he ran over and gave me a hug and he stated, ‘Pardon my French — you’re a humorous motherfucker’ after which he went again and began enjoying basketball.”
“I acquired the job the subsequent day,” Segel stated.
The film, which Segel averted naming, “ended up not being superb.”
However at the least the comedy star acquired an incredible story about how an NBA legend gave him an help. Bryant died in a 2020 helicopter crash.
Segel, a lifelong Lakers fan, performs former LA coach Paul Westhead in HBO’s dramatized sequence in regards to the Lakers within the Nineteen Eighties referred to as “Successful Time.”
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