When I was 15, my parents took my friends and me to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall. To this day, I’m not sure why I thought the latest Judd Apatow-produced comedy was the best Saturday night outing for a church youth group in Savannah, Ga. My conservative parents surely wondered the same thing when, in the first five minutes, a naked, flaccid, dripping wet Peter Bretter Segel gets broken up with by his hotshot actress girlfriend Sarah Marshall Kristen Bell and proceeds to have lots of cringe-worthy rebound sex with strangers.

It’s safe to say, Mom and Dad didn’t go to the movies with me for a long time after that.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall. + 1h 51mRomantic Comedies. After his TV star girlfriend, Sarah, breaks his heart, Peter can’t move on because she’s.

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But it just slowed down the scene so we ended up not doing that. And still, that experience didn’t make it any easier on Segel when it came to filming. Added Bell of the shooting experience: “Jason psyched himself up to doing it and he really owned the fact that he did write it and that he was going to go through with it. Because I’m sure on the day it felt so much more vulnerable than when he wrote it…at his house…the previous year.

That was one of the last scenes we shot in the film, so we were all very comfortable with each other. And although the beginning of the day was vulnerable, it was apparent that we were all friends, because by the time we had moved on from close ups, Jason was still naked and didn’t realize it. Segel was required to stay naked for a while, considering all the different angles Stoller wanted to film. There’s maybe like a second and a half of wiener in the entire movie.

We did test screenings where there was more of it and people just didn’t want it.