Jason Segel & Miranda Cosgrove

Hi, I'm Craig Young, and this is the Young Hollywood Studio. Earlier this week I had the good fortune of watching Despicable Me. And in the studio today, I'm lucky to have with us Miranda Cosgrove and Jason Segel.

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Did you have to do much uh, you know, gaining weight to play that role?

Well, it's animated.

Is it? Oh, sorry. You look so much like your character.

I know. I'm just kidding. I know. No, well, there wasn't originally a pot belly, and then they they film you while you're acting, and then the next sketch I saw, all of a sudden he had a pot belly. So it it's amazing you don't even see a picture when you're doing the voice.

How difficult is that?

I thought it was going to be much easier um, to do animated um, to do an animated film than to be on a TV show or in a movie because I don't know why. I just went in thinking that, and then it ended up being harder, I think. Because like you were saying, you're just all alone in this room, and you have to try to bring a whole personality and a lot of life into this little character. And emote like things like being on a roller coaster and like, you know, screaming. I had a lot of uh, experience with roller coasters, so that wasn't too bad, too hard.

You like roller coasters?

Yeah, I love roller coasters.

Do you go visit, do you

I do. Really? Well, Disneyland's my favorite place.

Yeah, me too.

My worst memory of all time, and greatest memory of all time takes place at Disneyland.

Really? What is your worst?

Okay. But they're the same memory.

They're the same memory?

Uh-huh. When I was like 11 years old, maybe 12 years old, I um, I was in the magic shop at Disneyland. And I was a very obedient kid.

I've been there before.

Yeah, it's the best place ever. It's on Main Street. And uh, my parents told me, all right, whatever you do, don't leave the magic shop. We're going to go buy some sweatshirts. We want you. You're kidnapped. So I'm in the magic shop and all of a sudden I feel like I really have to pee, like, super bad. And uh, my parents told me don't leave the magic shop. So I'm like starting to do the pee-pee dance. And uh, at one point I just can't take it anymore. Yeah. And I just started wetting my pants, and I'm humiliated. I'm like in the corner of the magic shop. There's like a puddle.

You were going to the bathroom in the magic shop.

Yeah, there's like a puddle of urine around me. And uh, when I finished, I walked away like to the next aisle, so no one would know what happened. And then uh, a lady in a wheelchair got wheeled in and they wheeled her right over my puddle of urine and she stopped her there to like look at the hide a dollar in your pocket trick. And then I heard a sentence that still breaks my heart. The clerk picks up the phone and he says, uh, we need cleanup in the magic shop. Some poor lady in a wheelchair wet her pants.

Oh, no.

Yeah. Yeah.

How old were you?

Uh, 18, 19.

No way. Now back back to the movie. Um, you know, the minions, let's talk about the minions. They they get a lot of grief in this film. I mean, they're practically abused, right?

They're pretty uh, pretty My favorite is the one that just floats out of the room and you never really see him again.

Yeah. That's pretty sad.

I know. It's sad. I understand that.

We've got a visitor. Welcome. Hello. How are you?

I've tried to shake hands with this guy like all day long and he can't see me because there's like very narrow. Yeah, your face in the mirror. I mean, it's it's ludicrous. Yeah. How are you? Oh, it's so nice to meet you.

That was very cute.

Yeah, wasn't that? Not as cute as this. Ah.

No way. I've been looking for one of these forever. I want one for my bedroom. All right. Well, anyway, thank you so much for being here, guys. And uh, spending some time with us here in the Young Hollywood Studio.

Yeah, thank you. It was nice talking to you.

Awesome. We've nailed that. That was just great.