“You know, you're not so stupid in person”: When Jason Segel revealed How I Met Your Mother’s Italian viewers thought he was dumb

Ten long years after it came to a conclusion, How I Met Your Mother still rakes in audience praise. Despite its storyline often coming across as long-winded, How I Met Your Mother most certainly shot Jason Segel to superstardom.

The actor appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon back in 2014, following the conclusion of How I Met Your Mother, and discussed his international recognition. In an amusing turn of events, Segel revealed to Fallon that during a trip to Italy, he discovered the entire Italian audience considered his character to be rather stupid.

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How I Met Your Mother star Jason Segel came across as stupid to the Italian audience

Speaking on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Segel opened up about the widespread audience appreciation he received following the end of the show. Narrating an interesting snippet from his vacation to Italy, Segel noted:

"I just got back from Itality last night. My first vacation in ten years, and it turns out the show was like really popular in Italy, they don't know that I'm Jason Segel, they just know me as Marshall. So everywhere I went, it was like 'Eh, sorry to bother you but are you Marshall?' (laughs) 'I hate to be that guy, but are you Marshall?' (laughs)."

The Shrinking actor further continued:

"But so then there was a chef who wanted to take a picture with me and I was so excited, and then he said 'You know, you're not so stupid in person'. Yes, well, 'cause they dub me, my character's like a lovable doofus, but they dub me with a guy whose like super doofusy in Italian, yeah. So I'm like internationally really dumb."

Jason Segel reveals feeling bored working on How I Met Your Mother

The early 2000s marked the zenith of popularity for How I Met Your Mother. Despite this success, Segel confessed in an interview with The Independent that he felt bored while working on the final few seasons of the sitcom. Speaking about how tough it was to portray the character of Marshall during those years, Segel revealed:

"They were a hard three years, I was really, really in need of doing an artistic check-in, and it was no one's responsibility but my own. The show was fantastic. Making romantic comedies was fantastic. But I was really starting to feel bored of my own work. And that's not a good way to feel."

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Following the end of the show, Segel decided to take matters into his own hands. He sold off his Los Angeles property and relocated to the sleepy California town of Ojai, where he started living in an orange grove. He also took a break from staying under the limelight.

How I Met Your Mother is available on CBS.

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