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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Dan Macsai](https://time.com/author/dan-macsai/) Apr 27, 2012 10:45 AM UTC  Jason Segel Jason Segel Chris Pizzello / AP by [Dan Macsai](https://time.com/author/dan-macsai/) Apr 27, 2012 10:45 AM UTC “We’re, like, the least masculine writers in Hollywood,” deadpans Jason Segel, star of _The Five-Year Engagement_ (out today), which he penned with buddy Nicholas Stoller. To wit: his latest flick, _The Five Year Engagement_, tackles the ups and downs of a serious, committed relationship—with a few dude-humor jokes along the way. TIME spoke to Segel about writing his own roles and high-brow romantic comedy. **Rom-com-wise, a five-year engagement is pretty fresh premise. Where’d you and Nick get the idea?** We’re just really interested in exploring relationships. And what we zeroed in on with this movie is how fluid relationships are over a long period of time. It’s about what happens when people say “I do” or accept a proposal and they mean “yes” for this moment and “yes” to how things are right now—without taking into account that power dynamics can change and things can go poorly. **So, you talked this all out over beers at a bar.** \[laughs\] Yeah, kind of. Nick and I really hit it off on _Forgetting Sarah Marshall_, and we were just trying to figure out what to do next. So we bounced around a few ideas, and this is the one that stuck. Well, this and _The Muppets Movie_. (**MORE:** [Mary Pols’ review of The Five-Year Engagement](http://http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/26/five-year-engagement-feels-that-long/)) **Not a bad combo.** Exactly. **Did you always see yourself as the lead?** Yeah. Because I do a TV show \[_How I Met Your Mother\]_, I don’t have the time luxury to write things that aren’t for me. Plus, Nick and I have a good system going — we write movies together, I star in ’em, and he directs ’em. **Overall,** **_Five-Year is_** **hilarious. But some of your fights with your on-screen fiancée, played by Emily Blunt, are surprisingly intense.** I don’t think that a romantic comedy has to appeal to the lowest common denominator. What I love about movies like _Annie Hall_ and _Broadcast News_ is how complicated they are. There is no villain. In _Broadcast News_, you don’t know whether you want Holly Hunter to end up with Albert Brooks or William Hurt or neither. That’s our model. **The movie was supposed to have a full-frontal nudity scene, a la** **_Forgetting Sarah Marshall_** **. Why didn’t it make the final cut?** Yeah, we had a full-frontal shot. It was right as my character was drunkenly walking out of a deli. But we decided it was gratuitous. The first time we did it, in Sarah Marshall, people had never seen the lead actor in a comedy do full-frontal for that amount of time. It’s been done a lot now. So we felt like, joke’s over. **Your character grows some awful facial hair during a rough patch. Was it real? And more importantly, was it inspired by a Muppet?** \[laughs\] It was not real, and it was not inspired by a Muppet. But it is inspired by my real life. (**MORE:** [_Jeff, Who Lives at Home_: A Slacker Comedy with Heart](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/03/16/jeff-who-lives-at-home-a-slacker-comedy-with-heart/)) **Oh yeah?** I’ve been known to grow passive-aggressive facial hair. **Please elaborate.** In relationships, and when I was younger and wasn’t getting cast, I’d just do it under the guise of “Oh, you think I care? Well watch this, I’m not even gonna try anymore.” It really is an expression of, like, “F\*\*\* this.” **I’m gonna use that next time one of my stories gets killed.** Go for it. **LIST:** [Top 10 Romantic Movies](http://entertainment.time.com/2007/02/11/top-10-romantic-movies/#son-of-the-sheik-1926) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7122687/jason-segel-on-five-year-engagement-full-frontal-nudity-and-passive-aggressive-facial-hair/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7122687/jason-segel-on-five-year-engagement-full-frontal-nudity-and-passive-aggressive-facial-hair/"},"headline":"Jason Segel on The Five-Year Engagement","datePublished":"2012-04-27T10:45:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T05:06:56.213Z","description":"“We’re, like, the least masculine writers in Hollywood,” deadpans Jason Segel, star of The Five-Year Engagement (out today), which he penned with buddy Nicholas Stoller....","url":"https://time.com/archive/7122687/jason-segel-on-five-year-engagement-full-frontal-nudity-and-passive-aggressive-facial-hair/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt44e21ff7eb1b9673/698a901e929fad12dec024d5/jason-segel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Macsai","url":"https://time.com/author/dan-macsai/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt44e21ff7eb1b9673/698a901e929fad12dec024d5/jason-segel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jason Segel","caption":"Jason Segel","creditText":"Chris Pizzello / AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7122687/jason-segel-on-five-year-engagement-full-frontal-nudity-and-passive-aggressive-facial-hair/","name":"Jason Segel on The Five-Year Engagement"}}]}] ```