Jason chat about The Muppets, Despicable Me and more on NovaFM (Australian radio station).
The writer/actor actually penned the hilarious ditty “Bangers, Beans and Mash” for Get Him To The Greek after a night out on the turps.
“I was in London working on Gullivers Travels and I was at the pub, maybe had a few too many pints and I ate bangers, beans and mash,” he said.
“I went home and drunkenly wrote a song called ‘Bangers, Beans and Mash’ and it ended up being the final song in the movie.”
On the big screen Segel made a name for his songwriting ability playing a lovesick composer in his biggest flick Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
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He went full frontal for the role, but he was adament it wouldn’t pigeonhole him into the buddy comedy roles popular with Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd.
That’s why he turned to the fuzzy comedy of The Muppets.
“Sarah Marshall had just come out and everyone was expecting my next movie would be an R-rated comedy,” he said.
“I went to Disney on a blind pitch and I went, ‘You guys own The Muppets and these guys are my big comic influences – I would really like a shot at bringing The Muppets back’,” he said.
“They all chuckled at me like they thought I was making a joke, and I was, ‘No, I’m serious’ and the next hing you know three years later we’re going to make a Muppet movie.”
Listen to the full interview on NovaFM
Thank you Roxanne (NovaFM) for contacting me about it!
