Seth Rogen Has Heard From ‘Almost Every’ Hollywood Exec About His Satire ‘The Studio’: They Say It’s ‘Great, but Very Traumatic to Watch’

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Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Seth Rogen‘s Apple TV+ comedy “The Studio” has already been making waves in the industry for its biting satire on Hollywood moviemaking. “I think I’ve been reached out to by almost every head of every major studio throughout the day to day, and it’s a lot of like, ‘This is great, but very traumatic to watch,'” Rogen said at a screening and Q&A for “The Studio” at the Museum of Modern Art moderated by Variety’s Jenelle Riley.

Based on “disturbingly” real experiences that Rogen and his co-creators have gone through, “The Studio” follows newly appointed studio head Matt Remick (Rogen) at Continental Studios as he is torn between making great art and the studio’s bottom line of generating easy money with IP. “It’s genuinely an industry we love,” Rogen said. “It’s written from the perspective of people who can’t deny that our dreams have come true because of this industry in many ways, but it’s also so fucking frustrating and aggravating.

You’re constantly seeing people make choices that are confounding and contrary to their own love of film.” “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor Chase Sui Wonders plays Quinn Hackett, an assistant who quickly has to learn the ropes after getting promoted to creative executive. “When I was doing Quinn’s character of yelling and screaming at Ike and Seth’s characters, the women on set, a lot of them would come up to me and say, ‘You’re talking like I wish I could talk to my boss,'” Wonders said. “And I’m like, ‘Your boss is Seth.'” Ike Barinholtz, who plays Matt’s right-hand man Sal Saperstein, described how “there’s something irresistible about doing stuff in this world.” “I really do love ‘Larry Sanders’ and I love ‘The Player,'” Barinholtz said.