{"id":246086,"date":"2025-11-05T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246086\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:04:07","slug":"the-studio-seth-rogen-now-rejecting-eager-director-cameos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246086\/","title":{"rendered":"The Studio: Seth Rogen now rejecting eager director cameos"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a new interview with <\/a>GQ<\/a>, Seth Rogen says he had concerns about how Hollywood would respond to The Studio. Those concerns seem to have been mostly assuaged when the show broke records as the most-awarded comedy series in one night at the 2025 Emmys. \u201cI had a few people come up to me at the Emmys saying they regret\u201d turning down cameos in the first season, \u201cwhich was very meaningful to me,\u201d Rogen laughed. \u201cThat\u2019s all I want\u2014for people to regret not working with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

After hustling to convince major players like Martin Scorsese and Sarah Polley (and even scrapping an entire episode<\/a> because they couldn\u2019t get the right cameos), Rogen and co. now have the opposite problem. \u201cIt\u2019s gotten very meta. It does feel like I\u2019m running a fake movie studio at times,\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019m having directors\u2019 agents call me to pitch their clients to be the directors of fake movies on our show, which is very weird and very meta. And I\u2019m having to actually turn down directors I\u2019m a big fan of because the movie, the fake movie, maybe isn\u2019t quite right for the fake package we have in our heads. So yeah\u2014it\u2019s gotten very strange.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogen thinks the industry has embraced the show because it feels \u201cvery real\u201d to them, but he was \u201cactually quite worried about\u201d how it would be received before the premiere. \u201cWhen you make a thing that\u2019s about a very specific industry, that industry historically is going to be very critical of it and very hard on it and hold it up against their own lens and their own standards of reality,\u201d he said. \u201cI make a lot of things where I\u2019m like: \u2018Steven Spielberg<\/a>\u2018s not going to watch this.\u2019 This was a thing where I\u2019m like: \u2018Oh no, I feel like these people who I really look up to will probably at least check it out.\u2019 And so that was something that really kept me up at night a few weeks, just knowing the people I really thought would actually watch the show, at least out of curiosity, were the people that I most respect and am the most craving [of] their validation.\u201d Four personal Emmys and 13 total for\u00a0The Studio\u2018s first season is probably enough validation to last a lifetime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Studio is as much about the art of falling as that of filmmaking<\/a>Griffin Mill has a full-on freak-out in The Studio’s satisfying season finale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a new interview with GQ, Seth Rogen says he had concerns about how Hollywood would respond to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-246086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}