Why Netflix Boss Ted Sarandos Is Making Acting Debut On Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ For Apple TV+
deadline.comNetflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is following in a storied American showbiz tradition of top TV executives making cameos on shows set by predecessors like Brandon Tartikoff.
Surprisingly, the series that marks his acting debut is not on Netflix but on rival Apple TV+. Sarandos is popping up in Seth Rogen‘s upcoming showbiz-themed comedy The Studio, in which the Neighbors star plays Matt Remick, the new head of a Hollywood movie studio.
We won’t spoil Sarandos’ interaction with Remick beyond teasing that it involves a chance encounter at the Golden Globes. “After 25 years in Hollywood, secretly what I was really hoping for was to be discovered for the silver screen,” Sarandos told Deadline. “Of course it was my friend Seth Rogen who saw my ‘certain something’ and cast me.
He has also promised an FYC campaign for my guest appearance — so it was an offer that I could not refuse.” In a recent Vanity Fair interview, The Studio‘s co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star Rogen spoke about getting Sarandos, whom he had known for decades, to appear on the show alongside a slew of other big Hollywood names who also have cameos including Anthony Mackie, Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, Martin Scorsese, Olivia Wilde, Adam Scott, Zack Snyder, Zoë Kravitz, Quinta Brunson, Aaron Sorkin, Ron Howard, Sarah Polley, Steve Buscemi, Peter Berg, and Jean Smart and the creators of Hacks.
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