{"id":739246,"date":"2026-07-02T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:30:10","slug":"seth-rogen-pharrell-williams-would-prefer-not-to-be-portrayed-as-frustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739246\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen: Pharrell Williams Would Prefer Not To Be Portrayed As Frustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Invite, the new tense dinner party comedy directed by Olivia Wilde based on a script by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones, was a Sundance hit and has been earning rave reviews. We mentioned it before because Dev Hynes composed the score<\/a>, and now there’s another music angle. <\/p>\n

Wilde stars in the movie alongside Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penelope Cruz, and the cast have been making the promo rounds ahead of the movie’s release next week. In a new segment for Entertainment Weekly, Rogen tells Wilde about an amusing interaction he had with Pharrell Williams. <\/p>\n

Six years ago, while promoting the live-action Lion King movie, Rogen told interviewers that he was the worst singer in the cast and required some coaching. “Pharrell was maybe, like, overdoing it a bit,” Rogen told Seth Meyers, saying he’d rather have learned to sing from a more average singer. (For what it’s worth, although I love Pharrell’s singing voice, I’m not sure I’d describe his vocals as conventionally good.)<\/p>\n

Fast forward to the following Rogen anecdote from the EW video:<\/p>\n

I was at a dinner, and I had made the Lion King movie, and I sing in the movie. And I had been doing interviews, and I had been talking about how Pharrell Williams got really frustrated with my singing. And then I was at a dinner, and Pharrell was there, and he was like, “Hey, I don’t like how you suggest that I got frustrated with your singing.” And I was like, “You did.” And he’s like, “I don’t like you suggesting that I feel frustration.” And I’m like, “You’re feeling it right now, Pharrell. It’s happening. It’s happening at this dinner.”<\/p>\n

Watch Rogen relate this story below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.<\/p>\n

\u2014 wint (@dril) December 29, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Rogen also told a story about Sean Combs inviting him on a hot air balloon ride when they encountered each other at the French Laundry in Napa Valley. Rogen is happy to report that he declined the offer. “The last thing I need in the world is a photo of me on a hot air balloon alone with Puff Daddy, waving and smiling and holding glasses of ros\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Invite, the new tense dinner party comedy directed by Olivia Wilde based on a script by Will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-739246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}