The Studio season 1: Seth Rogen on scrapped episode
We know that over the course of The Studio season 1 over on Apple TV+, we have had a chance to see a number of great episodes. However, we have also seen a number of them hinge on some sort of stunt, whether it be a big name in the cast or an over-the-top twist.
Obviously, celebrity cameos give the series a lot; however, at the same time they also can prevent a story from being told at all! Apparently, this happened on at least one instance when it comes to the Seth Rogen series.
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Speaking right now on on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Rogen himself noted that there was one episode that simply could not be done because people were not on board:
“The only people we didn’t get were a couple scheduling issues, and then there were two people who just fundamentally were not interested in playing themselves … None of them could do it when we needed them. So we literally didn’t shoot the episode.”
While it seems silly in a way that actors or directors would not want to play themselves, it makes some sense. Not everyone wants their image to be fundamentally altered, and this is a realm that Rogen is just more capable of swimming around in. After all, remember that one of the biggest hits of his career was This Is the End, which featured a number of people all playing themselves in various capacities. Of course, what we saw there was infinitely crazier than what we got on The Studio, which is largely just a send-up of the entire Hollywood industry.
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