Playing chilled lovers for nine seasons hasn’t always been easy for Alyson Hannigan in How I Met Your Mother. Indeed, the one who played Lily did not appreciate kissing her sidekick Jason Segel at all.
Disney+ subscribers can (re)discover the nine seasons of the cult series How I Met Your Mother which invaded the living rooms of millions of viewers seventeen years ago. The pitch was simple: the character of Ted Mosby told his two children how he met their mother. In the memories he shared with his offspring, he spoke in particular of his friends, including the couple formed by Marshall and Lily. Together during the whole series (or almost), the lovers had to kiss on many occasions, which did not always please Alyson Hannigan, the interpreter of Lily. If the two characters represented “the perfect couple” for many viewers, in particular because they knew how to manage together the many obstacles that presented themselves to them, a habit of Jason Segel made the intimate scenes with Alyson Hannigan very complicated to shoot. for the one who made herself known in buffy the vampire slayer.
Jason Segel’s bad habit in How I Met Your Mother
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Indeed, Jason Segel was smoking at the time. “I can’t stand cigarette smoke. It’s like kissing an ashtray. He was trying to be polite by chewing gum or sucking on mints, but it didn’t help.”explained the mother of two girls to Digital Spybefore adding: “When we shot the pilot [de la série]he said to me: “Make me quit smoking, I’ll be your best friend”. So they had set up a bet where he had to give the actress “$10 every time he smoked a cigarette”. “After the first day, he owed me $200”she explained.
A short-lived embellishment for the star of How I Met Your Mother
Alyson Hannigan then recounted that there had been “a fantastic year” since Jason Segel had finally quit smoking, but“he had resumed because he was stressed”. That didn’t stop the actors from liking each other a lot. In the last season, the whole cast got together to chat on the show The Talk and the interpreter of Lily, very moved, had explained that her costar was “such a wonderful guy” while fighting back tears. Same story on the side of Jason Segel who had confided to him: “I learned a lot from being around Alyson about the kind of person I wanted to be.” A nice friendly statement.
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