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Dec 13
'12
Seth Rogen & Barbra Streisand at ‘The Guilt Trip’ premiere: full of chemistry?

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Here are some photos from the Los Angeles premiere of The Guilt Trip, which stars Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand. The two actors play son and mother, respectively speaking, who take a cross-country road trip together, and hilarity (presumably) occurs as a result. I kind of adore Seth because he’s a formerly schlhubby guy who’s gotten himself into really good shape over the past few years, and he’s also succeeded outside of (or perhaps in spite of) the Judd Apatow school where he first met stardom in Knocked Up.

Now about these premiere photos. Barbra is an icon (obviously), but that hair screams, “drunk Jennifer Aniston.” So far, there’s been a really huge critical buzz over the chemistry between these two, and it’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen Babs on the big screen, hasn’t it? No matter how you feel about her diva ways, it’s good to have her back. Here are some of Seth’s thoughts on how he related to Barbra onscreen by drawing on his experiences with his own mother. It’s a pretty cute story:

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The stars of the upcoming film The Guilt Trip, Barbra & Seth bonded like mother and son during filming! Find out what made this unlikely pair become the perfect duo with their uncanny on screen chemistry!

Barbra Streisand picks the films she does carefully, but she had some help when selecting to work on The Guilt Trip with Seth Rogen. See what made these two a perfect mother and son on film

“It was interesting, I was talking to a friend that said to me that, ‘You are an actress, and you should act!’ That was interesting but then I read the script out loud with my son, and he thought I should do it. So I decided, what the hell and do it!” Barbra gushed candidly after a screening of her new film The Guilt Trip at AMC Theaters in Century City on Dec. 2.

But another reason could have been the chemistry she had with her co-star Seth, who was quick to add his thoughts on the similarities between Barbra and his own mother saying, “Barbra met my mother because she came to set, and she went to Barbra’s concert. There are similarities, they are both Jewish ladies, so they have a lot of common ground I would say! They are not that different, my mom was a hippy, my mom is more like her character in Meet the Fockers. My mom was a social worker and talks about sex way too much. she will literally post on her Facebook about Paps smears she has just got!”

[From Hollywood Life]

Ugh, I will admit that the Pap smear detail is really gross. Maybe Seth was speaking figuratively about that, and his mom merely Facebooks about her cats or the equivalent, but I think his statement is also a very fond one. Obviously, Seth respects his real-life mother, and he spread that affection onscreen to Babs, if the reviews are any indication.

In other Rogen-related news, Seth has also been pinch-hitting for Bill Murray as Peter Venkman in a live reading of the original Ghostbusters script. Jason Reitman (son of the film’s director, Ivan Reitman) says that Seth was the right guy for the reading because “we needed an actor whose rhythms were equally unique to Bill Murray’s and had that kind of a swagger.” Alright, I think Seth is adorable, but he possesses no degree of Murray swagger. Nobody does.

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Photos courtesy of WENN

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Nov 29
'11
Katherine Heigl’s Funny or Die video: amusing or a failed bid for attention?

In the past year or so, Katherine Heigl has taken a bit of a breather from the movie-churning machine and isn’t so “in our faces” at every moment. Sure, she’s preparing to ruin any and all of that good will next year with a terrible Stephanie Plum movie, but Heigl has been fairly lowkey other than that. Her only film this year is the upcoming New Year’s Eve, where she will likely be lost in an ensemble of horrific romcom clichéd proportions. I assume that this is the project that Heigl is seeking to promote with this mostly unfunny FunnyOrDie animal rights PSA, which features the acerbic actress taking a pro-neutering stance and then admitting that, ultimately, she really just hates balls:

She’s trying too hard, right? I appreciate that Heigl is willing to poke fun at her own extra-bitchy reputation, but just like most FunnyOrDie videos, the concept is dragged out in overdone capacity. However, it is mildly amusing that Heigl’s husband, Josh Kelley is a good enough sport to pop in at the end and ask his wife for his testicles for a boy’s night out. Presumably, the guy is very aware of his reputation as a third wheel to diva Katherine and her mother. It probably also doesn’t help matters that Josh is quite often photographed pushing a grocery cart around either. He must really love the hell out of grocery shopping:

In related Heigl news, her former Knocked Up co-star, Seth Rogen, has consciously decided that he has softened his view of Heigl and is not prepared to overlook the fact that she badmouthed the film that made her a star:

Way back in December of 2007, Katherine Heigl made a splash during an interview with Vanity Fair when she said that Knocked Up — the film she co-starred in the previous summer that vaulted her to the A-list — was “a little sexist.” Said Heigl about the Judd Apatow-directed comedy: “It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.” Four years later, Seth Rogen, Heigl’s Knocked Up co-star, has apparently finally forgiven the outspoken actress.

“I think that at the time I was offended about it, but since then … I mean, you do so much press that, odds are, you’re going to say something f&$%ing stupid every once in a while,” Rogen told Short List while doing press for 50/50. “Of the million things I say every day, 400 of them are stupid as hell. And any one of them might wind up in a newspaper or a magazine at any given time. So at this point I’m much more forgiving of that kind of thing.”

That’s a different tune for Rogen, who, two years ago — in an interview with Howard Stern — seemed far less forgiving of Heigl.

“I gotta say it’s not like we’re the only people she said some batsh-t crazy things about. That’s kind of her bag now,” Rogen said when confronted with her Vanity Fair comments. (Heigl, of course, said many outspoken things about ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ as well.) When Apatow, who was also appearing on Stern’s show, remarked that Heigl had likely been doing many interviews in a row and “slipped,” Rogen retorted, “I didn’t slip and I was doing f&#$ing interviews all day too … I didn’t say sh-t!”

[From From Moviefone]

Once again, Seth Rogen wins my hearts and mind with his words. The guy is just adorable, and he hasn’t lost any of his scruffy appeal by losing a bunch of weight either. In fact, he looks even more cuddly now:

Photos courtesy of Fame

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Written by Bedhead         21 Comments »
Oct 3
'11
Seth Rogen marries his girlfriend of 7 years, Lauren Miller

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Last year, I was surprised to find out that Seth Rogen had been with the same girl for six years. That wasn’t the image I had of him – as a man who would be able to commit to someone his age, and able to sustain a healthy relationship of equals. But Seth is a surprising guy, it seems, and I’ve grown to like him more over the past few years. Seth and Lauren Miller got engaged last September, and according to Us Weekly, they just got hitched, a little over one year after the proposal.

Seth Rogen got the girl! The Knocked Up actor, 29, wed longtime girlfriend, writer Lauren Miller, at Kunde Estate in Sonoma, Calif., Us Weekly can confirm.

Officiated by a female rabbi, the Jewish ceremony took place atop a hill surrounded by vineyards, with such comedy all-stars attending as Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, The Office’s Craig Robinson, director-producer Judd Apatow and wife Leslie Mann (plus their three kids).

After exchanging their vows, the bride and groom drove off in a convertible, headed for another spot on the property for the reception.

“The wedding was more laughs than anything else,” one source tells Us of the three-day celebration. “Every other line was a joke and the crowd couldn’t contain their laughter. It was nonstop fun!”

Opening up about the engagement on Conan in November 2010, Rogen revealed wacky details about the proposal.

After buying the ring, “Literally, I felt like someone had given me like a truckload of heroin to hold onto, I felt like the feds were going to kick in my door at any second,” he said. “I couldn’t have a conversation with my girlfriend. All I could think of was this ring. Like, ‘Don’t say ‘Lord of the Rings!’ Don’t mention anything about a ring!”

To calm his nerves, he proposed on the spot — while she was changing in the closet.

“I didn’t picture it like this, and I know she didn’t picture it like this. No little girl is like ‘It’ll happen in a closet with my [chest] out.’”

[From Us Weekly]

When they announced their engagement, sources claimed that Lauren had “given up hope” that Seth would ever propose after six years, but he finally did. They were together since they were both 22 years old. How very “Will & Kate” of them! Lauren even looks a bit like Kate – I think she’s very pretty, and she seems to be a quiet, stable force in Seth’s life. I hope they’re very happy, and I hope marriage suits Seth. Mazel Tov!

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Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Written by Kaiser         14 Comments »
Feb 10
'11
Kevin Smith says Seth Rogen made him into a productive stoner

Kevin Smith has lost 65 pounds, but as we heard yesterday he’s still wearing the same “Puck U” hockey jersey he’s had on for literally months (and I think I used the term “literally” correctly there) along with the same high water jeans. He gained weight, lost weight yet refused to change his clothes at all because he thought he would be somehow inauthentic. (At least that’s what I took away from his comments.) Smith was super talkative on the Joy Behar show this week, and he was a little more subdued but still very animated on MTV News. He told MTV’s Josh Horowitz that Seth Rogen turned him on to smoking pot about two years ago when they were making “Zach and Miri Make a Porno” and that it was the best thing that has ever happened to him in five years, because it made him more productive. Maybe that’s why he gained all that weight in the first place though. Here’s more:

“One of the most talented people I worked with in my life was Seth Rogen,” Smith explained to MTV News during our live-stream interview on Tuesday. “I got so much from him. He re-energized me in a weird way. I became a stoner because of Seth Rogen.”

Up until that point, Smith said he’d only gotten high a handful of times. But on the “Zack and Miri” set, he marveled at how Rogen — whom he called “a functioning stoner” — could toke up and not only make it to work on time but have “brilliant ideas” and be “constantly writing [and] productive.” So on the last day of shooting, Smith finally gave into Rogen’s request to smoke pot.

“I went up to him and was like, ‘How about we go to the editing room tonight, watch some cut footage, and maybe share a joint?’” Smith recalled. “He goes, ‘Finally!’ And it was awesome. We sat back, watched some footage and sat there smoking. And I loved who I was. I loved how the inhibition dropped away and I loved just being honest.”

Smith said the last two years of his life have been his most productive, including finishing two films and launching a podcast network on the Web, all thanks to the power of the herb.

“That dude gave me the greatest gift I’ve had in the last five years,” Smith said. “The moment I start smoking, I start working. … That way, no one could ever take it away from you. No one could ever say, ‘You fat, lazy piece of sh– stoner!”

[From MTV News via Popeater]

I really hate smoking pot because it makes me overanalyze everything and come up with these pseudo intellectual theories that I realize are complete bullsh*t when I’m sober. Like I doubt I could accomplish anything that was even marginally worthwhile if I was stoned all the time. Some people do ok with it and find that it fuels creativity though. I guess if you tie any habit into working it can make you more productive if you’re not completely blotto.

I realize that I’ve read all this press about Kevin Smith but have no idea what he’s promoting – so I looked it up and he has a horror movie scheduled for wide release in October called Red State with Melissa Leo. He’s doing a tour nationwide with it starting in March, though. He also has a hockey film scheduled for 2012 called Hit Somebody that he says is his final film as a director. It will include cameos from “everybody” he says, and he told MTV that he hopes that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will be in it as well. Why is he hanging up his hat when he just turned 40? He’s had some crap movies but he’s also put out some uniquely funny and enjoyable films. He should keep at it and maybe put the joint down. (I know I sound like a mom!)

Kevin Smith is shown on 7/23/10. (He’s not wearing the hockey shirt) and 8/10/10. (There it is!) Credit: PRPhotos and WENN. Seth Rogen is shown on 1/7/11 on The Today Show.

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Written by Celebitchy         27 Comments »
Sep 29
'10
Seth Rogen is engaged to his girlfriend of six years – who knew?

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My opinion on Seth Rogen used to be that he was likely an enormous douche. He just gave me the “bastard” vibe. But as I’ve seen more of his films and read some interviews with him over the years, my opinion of him has changed. While I still don’t consider him a “nice guy” I do kind of like him. He’s an underrated actor, he’s funny sometimes, and in real life, he’s very quick and easy-going, it seems. Anyway, I’ve found another reason to like him a lot – he’s been with his girlfriend for six years, and they just got engaged. That’s so… not the image I had of him! To be with the same girl for years and years and to get around to putting a ring on it? That’s wonderful!

It’s a happy ending for this funnyman! Life & Style can exclusively reveal that actor and writer Seth Rogen, 28, has proposed to his longtime girlfriend, writer and actress Lauren Miller, also 28.

“He surprised her with the proposal,” a friend of Seth’s tells Life & Style. “She’d started giving up hope that he would ever pop the question.” Seth asked Lauren – whom he’s been dating since 2004 – to be his bride just last week, after the two returned from visiting family in Boston.

“Her family adores him; everyone is thrilled to plan a wedding,” the friend adds. As for Seth, there’s no doubt as to how he feels about Lauren: “I have a girlfriend who is far prettier than I should have,” he’s said.

Congrats to the happy couple!

[From Life & Style]

She is really pretty! Lauren looks a bit like an Anne Hathaway/Rebecca Hall hybrid, doesn’t she? And Lauren has put in the time, for real. I like the quote “She’d started giving up hope that he would ever pop the question.” Why do I think that there was some kind of subtle ultimatum? Lauren might have said: “You know, it’s going on six years… I need to know where this is going… I mean, have you seen how hot I am?” I don’t blame her, of course. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.

In any case, congratulations/mazel tov to the happy couple!

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Photos of Seth and Lauren from 2008-10, credit: WENN.

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Written by Kaiser         24 Comments »
Jun 22
'10
The Green Hornet trailer – can we buy Seth Rogen as an action star?
34595, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Thursday October 1, 2009. Actor Seth Rogan, is seen on the set of his latest movie The Green Hornet in Los Angeles. He was seen using his Blackberry phone in between takes. Photo: © Andrew Shawaf, PacificCoastNews.com

Below is the new trailer for The Green Hornet, which isn’t coming out until January 2011. Entertainment Weekly likes it, but Gawker hates it. Well, Gawker thinks “We have seen this movie so many times before.” Sure, it’s formulaic. It’s an action-comedy based on a comic book! Of course it’s formulaic. But I have a bigger question – will people go see a comic book action-comedy starring Seth Rogen, who looks like he barely does anything action-y?

The Asian man (character Kato/actor Jay Chou) bothers me. Not because he looks bad or anything, just the stereotype that I already see forming is bothering me. Is that character true to the comic book? Does the source material have a sullen, resourceful, technically brilliant martial arts expert Asian as the straight man/sidekick? Eh. And Seth Rogen doesn’t appear to be doing the same formulaic shtick as other action stars – he seems to be parodying his own one-note slacker character. Oh, and Seth’s father is a media mogul? That’s bad luck, because the days of media moguls are over, unless you give the 80-something dude an Australian accent and a hot Chinese wife (coughRupertMurdochcough).

But if Christoph Waltz and Tom Wilkinson are in it, that does give me hope that this might actually be a decent film. Although the fact that Cameron Diaz is grossly miscast as the love interest/His Girl Friday does not give me hope.

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34585, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - October 1, 2009. Seth Rogan and Jay Chou film scenes for the remake of theÊblockbuster film The Green Hornet . Rogan and Chou playÊmasked superheroes who lead a double life.ÊRogen plays 'Britt Reid' who by day is a dashing newspaper publisher and by night becomes a crime-busting super hero. ÊCameron Diaz is 'Lenore Case', 'Reid's' secretary and one of the few people aware of his double life, and Chou plays sidekickÊ'Kato', an expert in the martial arts. Photograph: Andrew Shawaf, PacificCoastNews.com

Cameron Diaz and Seth Rogen join forces to film the Green Hornet in Los Angeles, on September 5, 2009. Diaz professionally sticks by her co-stars side to watch the last takes under the shade of a production tent. Seth Rogen on the other hand kicks back, loosens his tie and grabs a Diet Coke to maintain his new trimmer physique. Fame Pictures, Inc

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Jul 31
'09
Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow bust Katherine Heigl’s chops

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Us Magazine must subscribe to Sirius/XM Radio. They sure do love to listen to the Howard Stern Show and then build news stories around what his celebrity guests say on the air. The latest example of this is their new story on “Funny People” director and co-star, Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen. They appeared on the Stern show this morning to promote the new film, and Howard, who loves a good feud, brought up the comments that their “Knocked Up” co-star Katherine Heigl made over a year ago regarding that film. Both Apatow and Rogen responded in a clearly comical manner –but to hear US Weekly tell it, the pair is ready to throw down with their former leading lady.

Seth Rogen and Knocked Up director Judd Apatow are still miffed over former costar Katherine Heigl knocking the hit blockbuster.

Speaking to Vanity Fair in 2007, Heigl famously remarked that the comedy “paints the women as shrews,” while the men look “lovable.” She added, “It was hard for me to love the movie.” (She later said she was “disheartened” her remarks became “the focus of my experience with the movie.”)

But Rogen says he doesn’t see how Heigl’s new comedy, The Ugly Truth, makes women look even better.

“That [movie] looks like it really puts women on a pedestal in a beautiful way,” he quipped on Howard Stern’s SIRIUS XM radio show on Thursday.

Added Apatow, “I hear there’s a scene where she’s wearing … Underwear …with a vibrator in it, so I’d have to see if that was uplifting for women.”

Apatow figured Heigl was “probably was doing six hours of interviews and kissing everyone’s a**, and then just got tired and slipped a little bit” when she made the remarks to Vanity Fair.

Regardless, Rogen said, “I didn’t slip and I was doing f****** interviews all day too … I didn’t say s***!”

Even more baffling, said Apatow, “We never had a ‘fight’” with Heigl while filming. “Seth always says, it doesn’t make any sense [because] she improvised half her s***,” Apatow said, adding that she “could not have been cooler.”

Apatow said he hasn’t spoken to Heigl since her remarks. He doesn’t know if he’d make a big deal about it, either.

“It all depends on how much coffee I have had that day,” he said. “If I was fighting … with someone else about something I may handle it wrong, and if I’m in like total Buddha mood, I’d be like ‘I feel sad that she hasn’t learned the lesson of her journey yet,’” he said.

After the remark, “[You think] at some point I’ll get a call saying ‘Sorry, I was tired…’ and then the call never comes,’” he said.

Rogen said he doesn’t feel bad since Heigl seems to run her mouth and most people, including Grey’s Anatomy staff.

“I gotta say it’s not like we’re the only people she said some bat **** crazy things about,” he said. “That’s kind of her bag now.”

[From Us Weekly]

I heard the broadcast yesterday morning, and it seemed pretty clear that Howard Stern was trying to get a feud going by stirring the pot – and both Apatow and Rogen were jokingly obliging the radio host. It’s too bad that US didn’t take the time to transcribe the entire portion of the interview, including Howard Stern’s remarks. However, they do raise a good point: I’d say “The Ugly Truth” is just as sexist as “Knocked Up,” if not more. The characters in that movie are barely anything more than stereotypes, while the characters in “Knocked Up,” flawed though they are, at least are more real. But hey: I would certainly be interested in hearing what Heigl has to say about this rebuttal. Oh, and I should add that the Howard Stern/Seth Rogen interview also included a game called “The Wheel of Sex” and a performance by Stern regular Will the Farter.

Seth Rogan is shown on 2/22/09 in the header. Katherine Heigl is shown on 7/16/09. Credit: WENN.com. Image below is from 2008

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Written by MSat         31 Comments »
Jul 22
'09
Seth Rogen calls Entourage creator an “asshole” and a “moron”

Every morning when I wake up the first thing I think is “I really think Hollywood needs more feuds.” And I’m not being sarcastic – the more feuds in Hollywood, the better my job is. Normally it’s Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan versus someone (or everyone). There aren’t a whole lot of epic guy feuds going on right now. Generally they just punch it out and move on. Luckily, Seth Rogen and the creator of “Entourage,” Doug Ellin have thrown their proverbial hats into the ring and started a guy feud that sounds like it may have the potential to get epically nasty.

In one of its typically late-to-the-game, random cultural broadsides, the writers of Entourage went after Seth Rogen in last night’s episode, calling his “ugliness…oddly fascinating” in a debate over whether the actor could land a Katherine Heigl-type in real life. One might assume that the affable Rogen would shrug off the insult with a friendly, Fozzie-ish chuckle, but they don’t call where Rogen’s at a “fighting weight” for nothing! Behold, his amazing response when asked about the incident for E!’s Daily 10:

“Yeah, those guys are assholes. I actually ran into Matt…Kevin Dillon in a Starbucks. And he’s like ‘you know, I’ve got to kind of apologize because apparently the guy who created our show doesn’t like you so much.’ And I said ‘well I have reason to believe because I think [showrunner] Doug Ellin is a moron from all I can understand so it makes sense he doesn’t like me.’ And I’ve kind of said some disparaging things about the show. Although in our defense, [producer] Mark Wahlberg called us misogynistic in an interview, so I think they kind of started that…It’s on. Luckily I never have and never plan on watching Entourage.”

We would eagerly anticipate a rebuttal from Ellin, but we know how foreign the idea of creating conflict is to the writers of Entourage.

[From Movieline]

There’s a clip of the scene they’re feuding over above. I think it’s moderately funny at best, and definitely a few years too late. But to me the fact that it’s not that funny also makes it less offensive. If they’re really ripped into Seth Rogen (which I’m not suggesting by the way) it could have been a lot better. But it seems sort of half-assed at best. That said, that’s also why I’m so surprised Rogen even cares. He just seems the laugh it off type, but I guess not. I definitely don’t blame him for being pissed – that would flat out hurt most people’s feelings. It just seems more in his “Fozzie-ish” nature (wonderfully apt description, Movieline) to at least pretend to be fine with it and maybe even add a self-deprecating joke or two.

Seth Rogen has always struck me as a decent guy, whereas I’m not a big fan of anyone associated with “Entourage.” But in this case I’m going to have to call it for the show. The joke wasn’t that funny, but it’s what they do and it wasn’t shockingly out of line either. Rogen’s going to have to develop a thicker skin.

Here’s Seth Rogen at the LA premiere of “Funny People” at the Arclight Theatre on Monday. Images thanks to WENN.com .

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May 7
'09
Megan Fox wants to live like George Clooney

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The news from this interview Megan Fox did with USA Today’s Weekend Magazine has been coming out in drips and drabs, but now they finally put out the full interview. As it turns out, Megan sat down with Seth Rogen, and the two were interviewed together. They play off of each other nicely, and it wouldn’t be the worst idea for the two of them to star in some kind of buddy comedy (hint, Hollywood producers). This is the same interview where Megan says she isn’t trying to take Cate Blanchett down - but Cate isn’t the only celebrity Megan and Seth are talking about.

Megan and Seth were also asked “If you were the opposite sex but had the same gifts and qualities, how would things be different?” That’s an interesting question, and Seth answers honestly, basically saying it’s okay to be funny-looking if you’re a guy, but not so much for women. Megan seems to think that the question was basically “If you could be any guy, who would it be?” She seems to answer “George Clooney”. Ah, wise choice.

They may love comic books and crude jokes and share a spot on new Hollywood’s hot list, but Megan Fox and Seth Rogen never got acquainted until USA WEEKEND Magazine brought them together in L.A. for this in-depth interview.

At 27, Rogen has written, produced or starred in 600 trillion movies (“around that, yeah”), including “Knocked Up” and “Observe and Report.” In summer’s “Funny People,” he plays a writer for a famous comedian. These days, Rogen looks relatively fit and groomed. But he’s quick to joke that he’s still a pothead.

Fox, on the other hand, is just smokin’. The model turned actress was “thrust into the limelight” in 2007 with “Transformers” and now is compared to a young Angelina. But as Fox, 22, is eager to prove in June’s sequel, “Revenge of the Fallen,” and future films, there is more to her than meets the eye.

Seated side by side at a cozy table after their photo shoot, the stars hit it off.

Before landing high-profile movies and magazine covers, you were both TV sitcom sidekicks. Did you ever doubt you’d wind up where you are now?
Seth: Yes! I doubt I’m even at that point.
Megan: I agree. I started acting as a way to make money and avoid college. I sort of fell into it having no idea what I was doing … in “Transformers” as well.

Is it true that you didn’t know you were the female lead in “Transformers” until the end of filming?
Megan: Yes. Everything was on lockdown. The script wasn’t released to anyone. The director, Michael Bay, was the only one who’d seen it.
Seth: Guess what? The robots transform! [Laughs.]

In “Revenge,” you flee evil Decepticons for just about the entire movie. At least your male co-stars hauled butt in comfy sneakers — you were in heels!
Megan: Stilettos — and for the last part of the film, motorcycle boots. I had major shinsplints and threw out my back a couple times. Beyond that, Michael likes everyone freakishly tan, so we were painted maroon, like in the old Westerns when they hired Caucasians to play Native Americans. I had on fake eyelashes, running through the desert with sand stuck in them, and I’m sweating off all the makeup. It looked like we were making a tragedy.

Was the set of “Funny People” a bit more chill?
Seth: No, it was pretty much like that. [Laughs.]

Men and women are not always judged equally in Hollywood. If you were the opposite sex but had the same gifts and qualities, how would things be different?
Seth: I would’ve had a much more difficult time being an unconventional-looking woman. I think being an unconventional-looking man is fine. Most of my favorite comedians have been weird-looking: Bill Murray, John Candy, Buster Keaton. It’s almost embraced in the male world. People don’t want their comedy from a real handsome guy.
Megan: I think I would be like George Clooney. He’s sarcastic, and he has a different girlfriend constantly. It’s considered charismatic. He’s like this James Bond, sexy dude. The older he gets, the better he gets. It’s a double standard. To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women. As soon as you curse or, God forbid, make some sort of sexual reference that’s a joke, you’re [labeled a party girl]. They don’t do that with men, so I feel it would be a lot easier.

Olympian Michael Phelps recently got in trouble for photos of him holding a bong. Any incriminating photos of you taking a hit?
Seth: [Big laugh.] Yeah, definitely.
Megan: But you’re not on a Wheaties box.
Seth: Exactly, I never claimed to be a role model.

[From USA Weekend Magazine]

I didn’t like Seth’s answer to the Michael Phelps question. Just because Phelps was respected and admired by kids as a role model, doesn’t mean Phelps put himself out there as perfect. Kids choose their own role models, and I’m sure there are young boys who look up to Seth. Just because Seth didn’t “claim” to be a role model, doesn’t mean he isn’t one. Maybe I’m just nit-picking, but that answer bothered me. Other than that, it’s kind of a cute interview.

Photo credit: WENN.com.
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Written by Kaiser         15 Comments »
Apr 1
'09
Seth Rogen explains weight loss: ‘It’s called bulimia’
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A svelte-looking Seth Rogen was on The Daily Show last night to promote his films Monsters vs. Aliens and the upcoming Observe and Report, out April 10.

Stewart initially complimented Rogen’s weight loss, and he jokingly explained it by saying “It’s called bulimia, John, and it’s amazing. You eat whatever you want and you just vomit it up afterwards. That way you get all the flavors of delicious food and none of the negative side effects, besides all my teeth are fake. But other than that it works great. I recommend it to everyone.”

Rogen shouldn’t joke so casually about bulimia as it’s a serious problem for countless people. He explained later “I just started exercising and eating better, I must have really been in bad shape. Your producer was like ‘wow, it must be really great to do things like walk up stairs and stuff.’ I could walk up stairs before.”

There are rumors that Rogen lost the weight so quickly by snorting the white stuff. He freely admits to smoking pot, I heard him talking to Terry Gross on NPR about it, and that may be how the rumor got started that he dropped pounds with cocaine. I would give him the benefit of the doubt, though. There’s a lot of pressure in Hollywood to be thin and although people go to extreme unhealthy measures like drug use and eating disorders there are plenty of actors and actresses who lose it the old fashioned way, which isn’t necessarily harder. It sounds a lot harder to me to puke up everything you eat or get jacked up on cocaine so you can’t sleep.

Seth Rogen is shown at the Oscars on 2/22/09. Credit: WENN.com

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