Seth Rogen

Who isn’t?

Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that.

I’m younger than most people.

Oh, man we were completely flabbergasted. Shit. Me and Judd were used to doing things that people like but no one watches. So the fact that this was received on a commercial level is very weird.

I really have. I’ve been a big proponent of that for years. Me and my friends all curse constantly as do most people that I meet. You just don’t see that in movies very often. I just thought it’d be funny if people spoke how me and my friends speak. I’m glad people like it and weren’t completely appalled.

I’m glad to bring it back. To us it is just so funny how that is actually in the movie. Me and Paul Rudd came up with this really dumb thing on set and then we did it for 20 minutes straight. I’m completely shocked that they actually put it in the movie. But if you think that’s funny, there’s literally eight more minutes of it on the DVD.

It works on every level. Gay people do it. Straight people do it. I think I’ve heard gay guys are actually going now “You know how I know you’re straight?”

Yeah, I could not agree more. Loyalty is really not something that you hear a lot about in the entertainment world and Judd has been extremely good to me in that way. I’d like to think I helped him in some way throughout that time as well but maybe it is that we get along. It is rare that you find someone that you work with who makes it feel like it isn’t exactly work. I think the big reason he keeps me around is that it makes him forget that we’re actually doing a job.

It’s funny because I had no idea what that was. When I was hired I literally went on IMDB to look up what a co-producer did. That was useless. It didn’t tell me anything. So I was just like “I’ll just talk and give my opinion until someone tells me to shut up.” That’s basically what a co-producer does.

No, I just slimmed down a little. Although the prospect of seeing yourself on a 50 foot screen is a good motivation to not eat that hamburger.

That was so much fun to do. That again was one of those things that I can’t believe is actually in there. People have asked me “Is there anything that wasn’t in the movie that you wish was.” I will keep saying “No, if anything I’m shocked how much of the stuff we shot wound up in the movie.” We were laughing our asses off as we were shooting the Age of Aquarius stuff but we didn’t think anyone else would find it funny. In the test screenings some people hated that, but slightly more people liked it and that’s the only reason it’s in the movie.

It’s always nice when people agree with you about what’s funny. When we think it’s funny on set and someone else thinks “Hey, that was funny,” then it’s just one more day I can go without doubting everything I do.

To me it was always easier to make stuff up than memorize what was there. That was my take on it. It’s just something that makes it a lot more fun for me. It makes the whole process a lot more alive and you never know what’s going to happen so I feel like a lot of the funniest stuff comes out of that. I always laugh harder at stuff my friends say than anything ever in a movie. The reason is because it really seems like they said it on the spot. It doesn’t seem like someone told them to say it. When you can capture that on film I think it’s a lot more interesting to watch than scripted lines. But that’s just our poor acting ability if anything. I’m sure great actors can take scripted lines and make it seem like improv and get away with it, but we are just not skilled enough to do that.

It’s like the grossest thing in the world how talented and handsome he is. I’m thinking like “Man, I’ve got to be onscreen next to Paul Rudd shirtless. Great. That’s not going to hurt.”

I’ve was around him a little on Anchorman but I hadn’t had a large dose of Carell until we started doing the movie. He’s absurdly normal. I always describe it as one of your friend’s dads who drives you to school in the morning. He’s almost the most normal guy in the entire world. He’s really not even that hilarious to talk to. He’s just a guy who’s very nice and thoughtful in a way that you really don’t get why he’s so funny.

I was in high school and I was drunk at a party. I was just compiling a list of who I was going to call the second it was over. That’s all that was going through my head.

It was before. That’s how I know it was real.

A lot of scenes will forever make me laugh. It’s different things that amuse me as I watch it more and more. The part where Jay [played by Romany Malco] is watching Dawn of the Dead and keeps screaming. For some reason there’s something weird about the fact that you just don’t really see a guy watching another movie in a movie and reacting to it throughout the course of a scene. I always laugh really hard at that.

A few years ago him and Paul Rudd were in a movie called The Château, where they played brothers, weirdly enough, who inherited a French chateau. It’s an all improvised movie and it is pretty funny. It’s not mind blowing, but me and Judd were looking for guys and someone sent us that movie with Rudd for Anchorman and we were like “Hey, these two guys can play together. Let’s just hire both of them.” That’s exactly what we did.

There’s just a lot dirty shit. The movie is like 17 minutes longer, which is crazy because it is already two hours long. Judd is one of the few directors who really is thinking of the DVD as he’s shooting the movie. There’s just so much stuff we shot specifically for the DVD. There are hilarious scenes of improv that are specifically meant to be watched in that format. Smoke a doobie and watch it. That’s my opinion.

I’d say as many people recognize me now as they did when the shows were on the air. If I ever left my house I might have a much better sense of what the actual answer to that question is. But in my apartment not a lot of people recognize me.

Right now it is called Knocked Up and it is about me impregnating a woman on a one night stand and us having a baby together. We’ve just finished the first draft and it’s somehow far more graphic than The 40 Year Old Virgin.

it will be a similar thing. We always go in with a tight script and then kind of throw it out the second we get on set.

I’d say much more reality-based like 40 Year Old Virgin. Maybe even slightly more reality-based in a weird way because the subject matter of pregnancy is slightly heavier. But I hope it is equally hilarious.

Besides Bill Murray? Who else is there? I want to work with Sacha Baron Cohen more. That’s all I’m saying. I want him to be in anything I ever do. He’s the funniest guy alive.

by Daniel Robert Epstein

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