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Candid photos have just surfaced of Jason filming a scene with Rashida Jones for an upcoming movie. I think that they are filming My Idiot Brother which I had no idea Jason was a part of, but Rashida Jones is and the movie is currently filming. It may possibly just be a bit part as Jason wasn’t announced as part of the cast and he’s already filming How I Met Your Mother and The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made this month. Also in the film is Paul Rudd & Zooey Deschanel. The candids show Jason proposing to Rashida then they take a ride on a horse drawn carriage.

My Idiot Brother is set for release in 2011.

I’ve added photos of Jason from the season six premiere episode of How I Met Your Mother titled Big Days. You can view the press release for the episode here.

In Despicable Me, Jason Segel voices a character desperately seeking his father’s approval. In real life, he has that and more.

“I have the most supportive parents in the world,” Segel says, trying to stretch out on a West Hollywood hotel room sofa that’s a little too small for his 6-foot-4 frame.

“But I can relate to wanting approval. My father is a lawyer, and I was on that path. I come from a family of lawyers, doctors and money managers. But they want me to be happy,” he says. “The way I got started was so unique. I got seen in a high school play. My parents knew that opportunity doesn’t necessarily ring twice and that I should go after it.”

Thirteen years ago, Segel was a college-bound basketball player. Today at age 30, he is one of Hollywood’s busiest young talents. When he’s not playing the lovable Marshall Eriksen in the popular CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, he’s working on films. But becoming an actor was never part of Segel’s plan.

It all started in his 90-minute art history class at school in Los Angeles. “The class was right next to the drama department, so it was purely geographical that this started. I picked plays off the bookshelf and read them during the lectures.”

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He’s No Dummy
He’s graduated from high school sitcoms to the Hollywood A-list and a role as a 3-D supervillain in ‘Despicable Me,’ but the resolutely down-to-earth Jason Segel remains both freak and geek. He talks to Alex Pappademas about nude scenes, marriage, and Muppets. (Mostly Muppets, actually)
By Alex Pappademas, Photographs by Martin Schoeller
July 2010

One night not long ago, Jason Segel walked out of a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and saw a kid on the sidewalk, maybe 17, struggling to light what appeared to be a half-smoked cigarette. Segel, a smoker himself and a friend to fiends in need—”There’s not too many of us left,” he points out—proffered a fresh one from his own pack. The kid looked up, face full of withering 17-year-old pity, and said, “This is a joint, sir.”

The sir—that was the worst part, Segel says, laughing about it a few weeks later while seated outside the same restaurant. You can build a career playing, and writing about, guys blithely enjoying protracted young-dudehoods, clinging to their puppets (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), their “jerk-off station”-equipped man-caves (I Love You, Man), or their bongs (Knocked Up), but eventually you turn 30, teenage potheads look at you like you’re as old as Jay Leno, and your carefully calibrated real-life perma-dudehood falls victim to the working week.

“I miss smoking a ton of pot,” Segel says, genuinely wistful. “I can’t do it anymore. I’ve got too much work.” There’s his role as TV’s most realistic contentedly hitched goofball on How I Met Your Mother, which is a five-days-a-week gig. The Gulliver’s Travels movie he’s finishing up with Jack Black. The romantic comedy he just wrapped with Cameron Diaz and the one he’s doing with the brothers Duplass, of mumblecore microfame. And the script he’s fine-tuning for a new and, he hopes, franchise-rebooting Muppet movie.

When this interview is over, he’s got to go brainstorm a list of celebrities to tap for cameos in that last project—but he plans to do that at a bar, perhaps before or after taking a nap. Not everything has changed: We meet up at Meltdown Comics—Despicable Me, the 3-D CGI movie Segel is promoting, is sort of an evil version of The Incredibles, with Segel and Steve Carell voicing rival supervillains—but Segel presented at the Writers Guild Awards last night, and when he arrives, comedy-business-cazh in a roomy plaid western shirt and jeans, he’s hurting from a long night of after-afterpartying, so we repair to the place across the street to talk in a more hangover-friendly context. Egg sandwiches on focaccia and a bottle of what turns out to be nerve-toxin-grade hot sauce are procured; Segel lights up his first smoke and starts coming back to life.

1. MUPPETS ARE NEVER SAD
So—who’s the most famous person who goes to the WGA awards?
You know who was there last night, was Morgan Freeman. Full of gravitas, as usual. All the presenters were sort of making fun of how lame the Writers Guild Awards are, and then Morgan Freeman got up there, like [solemn Morgan Freeman voice] “Once…in a lifetime…a man writes a script…” And everyone, all of a sudden, became so serious. [laughs]