Seth Rogen Calls Negative Film Reviews “Devastating”: “I Know People Who Never Recover From It”
deadline.comSeth Rogen has made some critically-acclaimed movies like The Fabelmans and has starred in some not-so-great films throughout his career.
The actor is now opening up about how reading opinions from film critics can be very hurtful. “I think if most critics knew how much it hurt the people that made the things that they are writing about, they would second guess the way they write these things,” he said on the Diary of a CEO podcast. “It’s devastating.
I know people who never recover from it honestly, years, decades of being hurt. It’s very personal… It is devastating when you are being institutionally told that your personal expression was bad.
That’s something that people carry with them, literally, their entire lives and I get why. It f****ing sucks.” One of the films that received a lot of negative reviews was 2011’s The Green Hornet.
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