With visitor stars like Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard and Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen‘s new sequence makes use of each cameo.
The Golden Globe nominee defined that getting rejected by stars “occurred quite a bit” whereas casting his Apple TV+ present The Studio, to the purpose that they “actually didn’t shoot” one episode that known as for a selected actor.
“There have been lots of people who, in the event that they mentioned no, we’d must reimagine the entire episode to some extent,” mentioned Rogen on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast.
“The one individuals we didn’t get have been a pair scheduling points, after which there have been two individuals who simply essentially weren’t enthusiastic about taking part in themselves,” he added. “None of them might do it once we wanted them. So we actually didn’t shoot the episode.”
Most just lately, The Studio featured a cameo from Smile (2022) and Smile 2 (2024) auteur Parker Finn, whom is courted to make a ripoff of his personal franchise, entitled Wink. For Rogen, the half wouldn’t have labored with anybody else.
“Not solely are they well-known individuals, however the function they occupy in Hollywood may be very particular for every particular person. There’s him and nobody else,” defined Rogen. “We would have liked the director of a horror franchise that’s replicable in one other, shittier manner. And we have been like, who does Smile? Parker Finn! We thought, M3GAN perhaps, however it’s not fairly the identical factor. What we appreciated about Smile is that he stored doing them. If Parker Finn had mentioned no, I don’t know what we might have achieved.”
