Seth Rogen Knows the Secret to Marriage — and Being Rich in Hollywood

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**Lulu Garcia Navarro** (0:31)
From The New York Times, this is The Interview. I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.
At 44, Seth Rogen seems to be having the opposite of a midlife crisis. His series, The Studio, which he created, writes, stars in, directs and produces, just won 13 Emmys and is currently filming its second season. He also stars in and produces the very funny Apple TV+ show Platonic with Rose Byrne. His production company, Point Grey Pictures, has been banging out the hits like the dark superhero series The Boys, and his new movie, The Invite, directed by Olivia Wilde has been generating a lot of buzz. So I wanted to talk to Rogen about how he went from acting in the quickly canceled TV show Creaks and Geeks as a teenager to writing slacker movies like Superbad to having one of the most prolific, wide-ranging and successful careers in Hollywood. Here's my conversation with Seth Rogen.
Seth Rogen, thank you for being on the interview.

**Seth Rogen** (1:39)
Thank you for having me.

**Lulu Garcia Navarro** (1:40)
You were recently just in Cannes, which you go to often.

**Seth Rogen** (1:46)
I've never been to Cannes. What? No, never, that was my first time.

**Lulu Garcia Navarro** (1:51)
I just assumed, I actually didn't know one way or the other, but I was assuming.

**Seth Rogen** (1:54)
No, I'd never been. I don't generally make the kind of films that go to film festivals and have that type of attention or focus in any way. And so, no, I'd never made anything that was at Cannes before, yeah. It's funny because, you know, we very luckily have had very, like I say, we, like me and my group, I guess, the Royal We, I'm Canadian, close enough. But, you know, we've had very long, lovely careers where up until very recently, we didn't really do any of this stuff, festivals, awards, things like that. And I think honestly, in our heads, we really kind of assumed it, that that was not what our careers held, and we were really at peace with that. And so now that I am starting to get to go to festivals like Cannes and see it, it is funny that there's like this entire other side of the industry that has sort of just been withheld from me for the last 20 years.
And I never really, I never thought about it that much because I always just thought like, yeah, that's like, that's for those types of movies, and I don't really make those types of movies. But now, it is amazing, like the level of industry and infrastructure and sort of pomp and circumstance that I had nothing to do with all these years. Just felt like a lot of parties I was never invited to until now. So, yeah, it was really exciting, you know?

**Lulu Garcia Navarro** (3:19)
I find it very comforting that there's a velvet rope that you were not allowed to go by.

**Seth Rogen** (3:25)
There's plenty more, trust me. Even now that I'm here, there's many more velvet ropes that I'm not invited to be on.

**Lulu Garcia Navarro** (3:33)
I have this theory that there's always another room that you just don't get into.

**Seth Rogen** (3:38)
I remember as a kid hearing, I can't remember who was saying it, it was Judd or Gary Stanley, one of these old comedians I was hanging out with. It was like, you work your way up through Hollywood and eventually you are led into a room alone with Jack Nicholson.
That's the end of the line. It's just you and him in a small room together, and that's when you're like, I did it.

**Lulu Garcia Navarro** (3:59)
So you do have another film, which is The Invite, and you played Joe.
Joe is an angry person whose long-term marriage to Angela played by Olivia Wilde who also directs the movie is not in a good place. I saw this recent interview where Olivia Wilde said you are both non-confrontational people, but in this role you access and this is a quote, deep rage, and I want to understand what Seth Rogen's deep rage is. Tell me what she meant.

**Seth Rogen** (4:29)