Jason Segel Says He is Ready to Leave 'How I Met Your Mother' After His Contract Ends

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Jason Segel has admitted that he expects to leave How I Met Your Mother when his contract ends in three years' time.

Segel, who plays Marshall, explained that he wants the opportunity to play different characters.

"It's an amazing place to be," he told GQ. "But when you become an actor, part of it, the secret part of it, is that you don't want to work a regular nine-to-five job. And the secret part of a TV show is that it's a nine-to-five job."

He continued: "Eight years is longer than any relationship I've ever been in, it's longer than any school I went to. I think after eight years, I'll feel like I honourably did my commitment."

Segel explained that he feels like there is nowhere else for Marshall to go, saying: "I don't feel like I have that much more to offer with this character. Maybe if we got divorced or something - but that's not going to happen."

However, Segel joked that he has already suggested several ways for the show to end.

"One is that they're dead," he said. "The two kids and their father - they're dead, and they're in purgatory, and he's telling the story for eternity... And then my other suggestion, which they never used, which I think would be so funny, is - it's the future, right?

"I think in one of those scenes, they should open the window and it should be, like, a postapocalyptic wasteland outside. It should be like I Am Legend. Horrible mutants."

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