{"id":359735,"date":"2025-11-06T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359735\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:06:10","slug":"seth-rogen-on-turning-down-directors-wanting-to-appear-on-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359735\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen On Turning Down Directors Wanting To Appear On &#8216;The Studio&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/martin-scorsese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Martin Scorsese<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/07\/martin-scorsese-earns-emmy-nomination-the-studio-1236457593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Emmy-nominated cameo<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Studio<\/a>\u2018s pilot episode, the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apple-tv-plus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple TV+<\/a> series has apparently become the hottest ticket for many an A-list director. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCo-creator and star <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/seth-rogen\/\">Seth Rogen<\/a> recently detailed the \u201cvery meta\u201d experience of having to turn down some of his favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/directors\/\" id=\"auto-tag_directors\" data-tag=\"directors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">directors<\/a> who want to appear on the show, following the 4x Emmy-winning first season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt does feel like I\u2019m running a fake movie studio at times,\u201d he told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/seth-rogen\/\">GQ<\/a>. \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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing Scorsese\u2019s hilarious appearance as himself, directors like Ron Howard, Sarah Polley, Olivia Wilde, Zack Snyder, Aaron Sorkin, Parker Finn and more have also appeared on The Studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMeanwhile, the success of his industry satire\u2014co-created by Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez\u2014has resulted in several industry folks regretting their previous rejections of Rogen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI had a few people come up to me at the Emmys saying they regret it, which was very meaningful to me,\u201d added Rogen with a laugh. \u201cThat\u2019s all I want\u2014for people to regret not working with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn September, Rogen <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/seth-rogen-wins-2025-best-actor-comedy-1236531518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">won his first four Emmy Awards<\/a> for the series, taking home Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Martin Scorsese\u2018s Emmy-nominated cameo on The Studio\u2018s pilot episode, the Apple TV+ series has apparently become the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4964,185,22047,171,1746,40005,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-359735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-directors","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-seth-rogen","13":"tag-the-studio","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115502670576034134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}