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He’s the lovable goof Marshall on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother and is also the voice of a pint-sized super-villain with a shrink ray in Despicable Me. And now actor Jason Segel plays a ‘little guy’ in Jack Black’s latest film, Gulliver’s Travels. Excerpts from an interview…

How was it playing the main Liliputian in Jack Black’s film?
I’m in Jack’s pocket for a lot of it or standing on his shoulder or riding on his shoe. There were a lot of times when I was just acting to a tennis ball or something like that, but it was a really cool experience.

At 6’4, you’re this tall guy in real life, and the irony is not lost on many…
I tried really hard to put in a joke that I’m the tallest Liliputian, but it just didn’t translate. We’re all so little that a height difference of like 8 inches becomes literally millimeters when you’re looking at it in that scale. The joke didn’t translate unfortunately.

How much has How I Met Your Mother helped in getting you out there in the acting world?
It’s interesting, everything came together just at the right time. The first season of How I Met Your Mother was the same year I did Knocked Up, and season 2 was the year I did Sarah Marshall.Everything changed for me all at once. It’s a little hard for me to differentiate what did what, but everything came together really to be honest just when I needed it to. I was getting pretty close to feeling like it wasn’t going to pan out.

How close did you get?
I have no other discernable skills, so while mentally I might have gotten close, there really was a thought like, what was I going to do? I wasn’t going to go back to college at 26. I really didn’t have much to fall back on, so thank God it worked out.

What’re your future projects in hand?
I have co-written and also star in The Muppets, for which we are currently shooting too.

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Funnyman Jason Segel works seven-day weeks, so he barely has time to sleep, let alone have a girlfriend. Since he’s single, he tells iVillage exclusively that he wants “someone who’s nice. Funny helps, but nice comes first.” Maybe that’s because Segel’s sense of humor — which he says helps him with the ladies — is enough for two people!

The solo actor, 30, has a lot on his plate right now. He’s promoting Gulliver’s Travels (costarring Jack Black and Emily Blunt), is on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother and is starring in 2011′s Muppets movie, which he also wrote.

In a recent interview, you said the toughest part of Gulliver’s Travels was playing someone who Emily Blunt would be attracted to. Do you really believe that?
I don’t know if it’s the toughest part, but it really helped with the role because I had to feel like she was above my station in life, you know? So I think that actually really helped that I’m intimidated by Emily.

Some of us at iVillage are thinking of starting a “Make Jason Segel the Sexiest Man Alive” campaign.
I would highly encourage it. And, good luck! (Laughs) That would be very impressive!

You signed a contract for eight seasons of How I Met Your Mother. Will you be done after that?
I would have to see how I felt at eight seasons. I think once you’ve done your contract, you’ve done everything that you said that you would do. So I wouldn’t feel like it was abandoning ship or anything like that. Eight years is a good long time. But you know I love working on the show and I love my cast and crew so I think I’ll play it by ear when I get there.

Read the Complete Interview:www.ivillage.com

Just in time for the holidays, Jack Black stars in an adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century classic, “Gulliver’s Travels,” with a contemporary spin added to the source material. One of his co-stars, Jason Segel (of “Forgetting Sarah Marshal” and CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother” fame) recently spoke to CBSNews.com’s Ken Lombardi about this new family-friendly film and about his next collaboration with frequent comedic partner, Judd Apatow.

While watching the film, I thought to myself, ‘his neck must have hurt so much’ [from constantly having to look up at a giant-sized Jack Black].
Yeah, there is a lot of looking up, but luckily I am the same size as everyone in Lilliput [the miniature-sized region in which Gulliver finds himself], so Jack had to do a lot more looking down than I had to do looking up. But I did do a fair amount of looking up.

[Since Jack Black plays a giant and Jason plays a thumb-sized person] How did you and Jack film those scenes together?
We shot most of the scenes separately. On separate soundstages at separate times. But we would always go and be there for each other off-camera. So we did act quite a bit together, just not necessarily on-camera. But there are a couple scenes where they invented a special rig called the dual-Moco Roco. A dual motion-controlled remote control camera…that’s the real name. So we were on separate sound stages doing the same things at the same time with two cameras moving at different times. So we could just hear each other.

Tell me a little bit about your character [in "Gulliver's Travels"], Horatio. What is he like? Where did he come from?
Well, Horatio basically is a really, really sweet commoner who is imprisoned in Lilliput for flirting with the Princess…Princess Mary played by Emily Blunt. The Lilliputians, by nature, are a bit naive and very trusting. And so that part was easy, then you just do this face. This is a naive innocent face [intimates a quizzical facial gesture]. Then I added whenever I had to deal with the Princess, which separately is this face [another facial gesture], so then I put them together and I got basically this face [final sad-faced gesture.]

[Laughs] Did you read “Gulliver’s Travels” at all before this?
I read the Cliffs Notes in junior high, I think that’s the best I can say. Then once I got the part, of course, I read it over and over and over again. [He's joking.]

This is one of your first PG-rated starring movies?
Yeah, and “Dispacable Me.” This is my second family film. And, “The Muppets,” which comes out next year, will also be PG. So, I’m riding the family wave for a minute.

Do you like that? Kind of transitioning from more adult humor to—
Well, I’m trying to keep it mixed up. I also have a hard R-rated comedy called “Bad Teacher,” coming out next year. And another R-rated-kind-of-drama with Susan Sarandon and Ed Helms. So, I’m just trying to keep it mixed up. I don’t want people to be able to say, ‘THIS is what Jason does.’

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British actress Emily Blunt found it “hell” working against green screens for her new adventure film Gulliver’s Travels because she exhausted her imagination with the “tedious” and “confusing” process. The Devil Wears Prada star appears alongside Jack Black and Jason Segel in the big screen adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s fantasy tale, but Blunt struggled through production because the movie relies heavily on special computer-generated imagery (CGI) effects to bring the island of Liliput to life.

She tells Access Hollywood, “(It is) hell. I find it really tedious and confusing. You’re like begging a tennis ball on a pole for help and crying! I think that’s (the moment) when you’re like, ‘Oh wow. This takes a lot of imagination!’”

But Blunt insists having Black and Segel on hand to provide a few laughs in between takes definitely helped to lift her spirits.

She says, “Heaven – they’re so much fun. I mean, they’re too much fun! It almost ruins you for other actors, you know? They’re really delightful and sweet, and it was just like a comedy fest on that set.”

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Jason and the cast of“Gulliver’s Travels” attended the Los Angeles premiere last night at the Chinese Theatre. Although it was raining it looks like they had a great time. Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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I added 3 ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ stills.

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Just two shots of Jason in it. But the movie looks good!

I added 2 HD captures from the trailer.