It belongs in a museum!
Harrison Ford once complimented Jason Segel on his “great d–k” after watching the 45-year-old actor go full frontal in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
Segel recalled the “Indiana Jones” star’s surprising words during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series with Seth Rogen published on Thursday, June 5.
He began by explaining how the producers of “Shrinking,” Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence, convinced Ford, 82, to sign on to the popular Apple TV+ series.
“We got Harrison Ford because Harrison Ford is the kind of person you make an offer to so that for three days you can say, ‘We’ve made an offer to Harrison Ford,’ and then you’ll pick the real guy,” Segel said on Thursday.
“He read it, and he didn’t know anything about me,” the “How I Met Your Mother” star continued. “Brett Goldstein met with him, and they had a really nice meeting, and they sent him ‘The End of the Tour’ and ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall.’”
“Then,” he added, “Bill Lawrence got a text that said, ‘I’m in. And tell the kid, great d–k.’”
Rogen, 43, couldn’t get over the fact that Ford once complimented Segel’s manhood.
“Even if he was out, that would be great,” the “Studio” star joked. “I would take that.”
The full-frontal scene in question occurs in the 2008 comedy when Segel’s character, Peter Bretter, stands fully naked as his girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), breaks up with him.
Segel previously opened up about the surprising scene in 2015 and revealed that he was the one who came up with the idea.
“I thought that was hilarious,” he told Vulture at the time. “I was actually not very uncomfortable doing it. I really felt free.”
“You have to put it in the context that this was 2006, 2007, and this hadn’t been done before, in my recollection,” Segel added, “where the main guy was going to be naked in the first five minutes of the movie.”
Even more surprising was Segel’s admission that the full frontal idea was inspired by a similar incident that had actually happened to him in real life years before.
“She arrived at the house and I had decided that the way to really kick off this sex was that I was waiting on the couch totally naked, like posed,” he told Conan O’Brien during an episode of the comedian’s podcast in 2023.
“So she walked in and there I am laying,” he continued, “and I said, ‘I’ve got a surprise for you,’ and then she said, ‘We need to talk.’”
One person who didn’t enjoy Segel’s nude scene was his mother, who was blindsided when she watched it at the movie premiere.
“She said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’” the recalled last year. “I said, ‘I thought it would be a funny joke.’ She said, ‘This is not a funny joke.’”
As for “Shrinking,” the series stars Segel and Ford as therapists Jimmy Laird and Paul Rhoades, respectively.
The show, which premiered in January 2023 and concluded its second season in December, follows Segel’s character in the wake of his wife’s death. It also follows Ford’s character as he battles Parkinson’s disease.
“There’s no intention to make it into a joke,” Ford said of his character’s startling diagnosis during an interview late last year.
“But there are people that absorb these kinds of experiences with grace and courage and a little bit of wisdom,” he added. “And that is not to say that some people do not.”