{"id":671839,"date":"2026-07-03T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671839\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:06:13","slug":"pharrell-williams-doesnt-want-you-to-think-that-hes-capable-of-frustration-seth-rogen-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671839\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharrell Williams doesn’t want you to think that he’s capable of “frustration”, Seth Rogen reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Rogen<\/a> has claimed Pharrell Williams<\/a> confronted him about an interview where he said the \u2018Happy\u2019 singer was \u201cfrustrated\u201d.<\/p>\n

The comedy actor is currently appearing in The Invite<\/a>, which centres around an awkward dinner party between neighbours. Promoting the film for Entertainment Weekly, he and co-star Olivia Wilde<\/a> discussed awkward moments at dinner parties, and the unique anecdote came up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was at a dinner and I had made the Lion King movie and I sing in the movie,\u201d Rogen explained. \u201cAnd I had been doing interviews and I\u2019ve been talking about how Pharrell Williams got really frustrated with my singing. Then I was at a dinner and Pharrell was there and he was like, \u2018Hey, I don\u2019t like how you suggest that I got frustrated with your singing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI was like, \u2018you did [get frustrated]\u2019, and then he was like \u2018I don\u2019t like you suggesting that I feel frustration\u2019. And I\u2019m like: \u2018you\u2019re feeling it right now, Pharrell. It\u2019s happening. It\u2019s happening at this dinner.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogen played Pumbaa in the 2019 remake of Disney\u2019s The Lion King, in which Williams served as co-producer for selected songs in the soundtrack. Since the comment, a 2018 MovieWeb<\/a> interview has re-emerged where Rogen said: \u201cI literally had Pharrell Williams banging his head against a wall trying to extract like a fucking good note out of me. I\u2019m like someone less famous would actually be more helpful. It\u2019s like the last thing I need.\u201d He compared it to being taught to ride a motorcycle by Evel Knievel.<\/p>\n

In January, Williams made headlines after it was reported that he faces a new lawsuit from former Neptunes partner Chad Hugo<\/a>, who claims that he has been denied royalties for the last N.E.R.D. album \u2018No One Ever Really Dies\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen has claimed Pharrell Williams confronted him about an interview where he said the \u2018Happy\u2019 singer was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671839","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\/671839","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=671839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}