Actor Jason Segel’s favorite Lakers player is Kobe Bryant, and not just for his acting prowess.
On “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Thursday, the album “How I Met Your Mother” recalls how Bryant accidentally helped her get a role in the film when the studio manager didn’t want to take her. Segel shot the 2008 comedy “Forget Sarah Marshall,” but “it didn’t do much,” the actress said.
Segel’s agency arranged for him to sit next to a restrained spectator at a Lakers game – and it was embarrassing. “He didn’t want to be there, he didn’t know who I was,” Segel said.
“Suddenly,” the actor continued, “Kobe saw me out of the corner of his eye, left Leiap’s lines, ran to hug me and said, ‘Forgive me French, you’re funny grandma’ then he came back and started play basketball.
“I have a job tomorrow,” Segel said.
The film, whose title Segel avoided, “didn’t end well.”
However, the comedy star has a good story of how he was given a boost by an NBA legend. Bryant died in a helicopter crash in 2020.
Segel, a regular Lakers fan, plays former Los Angeles manager Paul Westhead in an HBO drama series about the Lakers in the 1980s called “Victory Time.”
Source: Huffpost
