![]() "W hen I watch it, I'm like this is really weird, but I'm proud of it." He explained it demonstrates to someone who feels stuck in their everyday life that unexpected, wonderful things could be around any corner. "That's part of what happened in the real social experiment," Segel said. Next, someone dressed as Bigfoot joins in and hands Peter a package, dispersing the impromptu gathering. From around the corner comes a breakdance team and their boombox to join his party of one. There, he gets instructions to dance and he awkwardly obliges. While it would be unfair to give away all the odd surprises that happen in the pilot, there are two scenes that must be talked about.ĭuring one, Peter is called and told to go out in the rain to a pay phone. It's not spoon-fed to you," said Mark Friedman, the series's showrunner, who joined Segel and Lindley on stage at the Comcast Technology Center. "This sh**'s really complicated, this first episode, but that's kind of a good thing. The script was re-written for particular locations around Philly, which Segel calls " one of the most beautiful cities in the world." It also was written to be challenging. And he read the script and the first thing he said to me was, 'I'm all in,'" said Segel, who also shared he often would hear Benjamin "fluting" through Philly on nightly walks. In the pilot, Peter meets her after his induction to the Jejune Institute, and they soon add Janice (Sally Field) and Fredwynn (André Benjamin, aka André 3000) to their team.Īndré Benjamin plays Fredwynn in 'Dispatches from Elsewhere.' He meets Peter in Rittenhouse Square then shortly after reveals he thinks they're part of a government conspiracy."Everyone told me I would never get André. Only then was Segel given the go ahead to create "Dispatches." Grant was the first person he cast, followed by Eve Lindley, who plays Simone. ![]() Segel,' and the next day I was put through (something similar to) the induction that you see in the pilot." I walked in and they said, 'We've been expecting you Mr. "A month later I got an email with a time and a location in San Francisco. "I was alive with excitement to write it and I got ahold of the creator of the experiment," Segel said. "I pitched him my idea on the phone and he said, 'Nah, I'm good.' And he hung up on me." The actor – known for movies like "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" – knew quickly he wanted to create a project based on it. RELATED: Jason Segel's 'Dispatches from Elsewhere' is about a real multiplayer game with cult following The Jejune Institute was a social experiment, also described as an alternate-reality puzzle game, that took place in San Francisco between 20 and sent thousands on scavenger hunts. Leaving the atrium, Peter is introduced to Octavio – who's possibly evil – and things get a lot more interesting for our protagonist.ĭuring a conversation at the Comcast Technology Center in Center City on Friday, following a screening of "Dispatches" first episode, Segel explained how he learned of the real Jejune Institute from a documentary. ![]() ![]() Rittenhouse Square Park and Stephen Starr's restaurant The Continental in Old City also are prominently featured in the first episode. Stephen Starr's The Continental in Old City makes an appearance in Episode 1 of 'Dispatches from Elsewhere.'He heads to the organization's headquarters, which many Philly viewers will recognize immediately as the marble-floored Curtis Center atrium in Old City. ![]()
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