10 TV Show Moments That Aren't What They Seem
6. Jason Segel Genuinely Didn't Know His Character's Father Was Going To Die - HIMYM
While Jason Segel may have had the advantage of being able to learn his lines in English and not have a Valyrian curveball thrown his way late in the day, the How I Met Your Mother star did still find himself having to think on his feet during one particularly heartbreaking moment.
As the Marshall Eriksen actor would recall to SheKnows during an interview alongside co-star Alyson Hannigan, instead of reading over Lily's lines whilst learning his own for the sequence that involved his partner telling him about the nature of his dad's sudden death from a heart attack, Segel chose to be kept entirely in the dark.
Apart from the last word of Hannigan's line, "it", the thespian hadn't the slightest clue what was heading his way in the scene, leading to his entirely natural and devastatingly honest performance upon hearing the awful news and declaring "my dad's dead?"
And in the wake of said saddening revelation, the actor's later utterance of "I’m not ready for this" wasn't actually a part of the script at all. But it still made the cut, with the emotionally charged moment also being caught in just the one take.