Best Of: Jason Segel / Lisa Kudrow
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Best Of: Jason Segel / Lisa Kudrow

B1IntermediateAugust 29, 202649 min
  • Interview
  • Entertainment

Jason Segel returns to talk with Terry Gross about his Emmy-nominated series Shrinking, in which he plays a therapist who suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of his wife’s death. Segel opens up about his own therapy and acting opposite Harrison Ford. Also, Lisa Kudrow talks about her Emmy-nominated series The Comeback. She plays an actress who is delusional about her career and desperate to be onscreen. Kudrow spoke with Tonya Mosley about shifts in Hollywood, Friends, and what she was like when she was a young girl. Book critic Maureen Corrigan recommends three new...

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From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley in Los Angeles. Today, Jason Siegel. In the comedy drama series Shrinking, he plays a psychotherapist who's who's having a nervous breakdown, but is continuing to see patients.

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Siegel talks about what he's learned about psychotherapy and himself playing a therapist. Also, Lisa Kudrow. She's nominated for two Emmy Awards

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for the final season of the HBO comedy, The Comeback, which she co-created. Lisa is best known as Phoebe on Friends, but long before that,

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