Seth Rogen talks about Martin Scorsese and F-bombs at SXSW Premiere of ‘The Studio’

It is appropriate that creative partners chose Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for their Apple TV+ series “The Studio” – a destructive accurate satire of the modern film industry – in South by Southwest, a festival with once admiring film culture and deeply irrevocably about Hollywood.

“I think many people wonder why so many bad films are made in Hollywood,” said Rogen in the Q&A after the premiere with two episodes, which played the waves of roaring laughter of the audience in the Paramount Theater in Austin. ‘But what people have to wonder is how each Good films are made in Hollywood. So that’s what we try to show here. ”

Rogen plays Matt Remick, who is suddenly promoted in the work of the fictional continental studios (think of Sony Pictures mixed with Warner Bros. and a dash of Paramount). While veteran actors and colleague SXSW participants Catherine O The first episode alone contains Paul Dano, Peter Berg, Nicholas Stoller, Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron and Steve Buscemi, of whom most of whom have been packed in Matt’s hectic search to lock up a director for his first major project: a feature movement of Kool-AID.

At one point Rogen said that he and Goldberg – who direct the show, and wrote the first episode with colleague -executing producers Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez – told Scorsese that he should complain that he should have sold a project “Apple” Apple. “

“And he says,” You say too much “fuck”, “” Rogen remembers. “And we thought:”We Say too much “fuck”?! ” (Scorsese’s film ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ by Scorsese once held the world record for the most use of the F-word.)

Rogen said that he and Goldberg tried to fill their film with so many top names that they could because “we wanted to paint an accurate picture of a Hollywood film studio, and so we wanted to use people that you think a studio would be enthusiastic.”

He then mentioned the 2015 film version of the HBO series ‘Entourage’, which was meant in the same way in the heart of a Hollywood environment. “They have a big party and, like, Bob Saget is the most famous man there,” said Rogen. “I love the man, but it was always like, I don’t know if that is what it would be like.”

They gathered their cast, said Goldberg, by reaching people “with whom we are already friends – and then some people who show up are not friends, and I still don’t know why.”

“I had never met Martin Scorsese before,” said Rogen. “We couldn’t believe he did it! But we worked hard to write roles that we hoped to be funny and that we hoped that people would respond. Everything someone wants is a good joke, that’s what we really learned. It is very tempting for people to feel that they are getting funny. Even Charlize, we had something like that: “It’s one rule. But it will kill, we promise! “”

One of the most striking aspects of the show is cinematography. Each scene in the series unfolds in one shot – episode 2, “The Oner”, is even about director Sarah Polley who tries to shoot a crucial scene in one take.

“It was a great way to soften Studio notes because we couldn’t change anything if we had shot it,” said Rogen. “We wanted it to feel really compelling and we wanted it to be really stressful and panic inducing, which is our experience in industry.”

‘If we panic because there is no cutting, you will Panic when you look at it, “Goldberg joked.

“The Studio” will premiere on Apple TV+on March 26.