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Seth Rogen Spills on Real-Life Inspirations Behind ‘The Studio’: “I’ve Been Yelled at Three Times in the Last Week”

The actor stars in Apple TV+’s new Hollywood satire, which he also co-created and directed.

That’s when Stephen Colbert circled back to the Platonic actor’s comment about his character saying he got into the movie business because he loves them but that his job is to ruin them. We wanted to make it very R-rated and edgy, and he was telling us we couldn’t, and even though he thought it was funny, he hung his head and said exactly that: ‘I got into this because I love movies and now it’s my job to ruin them.” “Conversely, I had a call from a studio executive who said, ‘It was so real and it was so truthful to my story, I couldn’t stop crying when I was watching it.’ And I didn’t have the heart to tell him, but I was like, ‘It’s not based on you at all, man.

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