The former manchild’s performance as an industry suit in new series The Studio shows how far he has come in Hollywood
In Seth Rogen’s new satirical series, The Studio, Rogen plays the newly appointed head of a major Hollywood production company – and there was a time when that alone would have been the joke.
The goofy, schlubby, pre-eminent manchild of mainstream comedy, handed the role of a powerful industry suit – the fish-out-of-water jokes would have written themselves. But Matt Remick, Rogen’s character in The Studio, isn’t a manchild but a man: a pretty regular middle-aged one, trying to do good, honest work in a sour, cynical business.
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