Interview: Jason Segel Discusses Before & After 'The End of the Tour'

Jason Segel

“I’m not so sure you want to be me.” It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass – the chance to interview Jason Segel. He stars as the late author David Foster Wallace in one of my favorite films this year, The End of the Tour directed by James Ponsoldt. The film is about the actual end of his (book) tour, specifically the time David Foster Wallace spends with fellow writer/journalist David Lipsky, played in the film by Jesse Eisenberg. The two meet in winter and discuss all kinds of topics, and it’s really a beautiful film about life and honesty, and still being real even though you may be brilliant, as with DFW. Segel gives a phenomenal, Oscar-worthy performance as David Foster Wallace – and I don’t bat an eye saying that. I had to meet him. ›››

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