Seth Rogens The Studio sigter direkte efter moderne Hollywood-kultur i et af skuespillerens mest ambitiøse projekter til dato. Som en, der har været i film- og tv-branchen, siden han var teenager, har Rogen masser af erfaring og ved, at branchen har sine fejl.
I serien spiller Rogen nemlig en af de notoriske studiechefer, men det betyder ikke, at han pludselig tror, at de er ufejlbarlige. "They could make good movies instead of bad movies, and a lot of them choose to make the bad ones because they think it'll make their lives personally more secure," sagde han til Variety.
"The games that are constantly being played by people at the studios is ownership versus distance — how to navigate having ownership over something if it does well and distance from something if it does poorly."
De fleste af Rogens bedste stik mod Hollywood i The Studio kommer fra hans egne oplevelser, såsom da han lavede The Green Hornet:
"We learned how handcuffed we were by the things that had to be in it. At the time, we were a little naive as to how restrictive it actually was. Like, I had to work at a newspaper. I had to have a secretary named this. I had to have a guy named this who was my mean boss. None of those were ideas we would have arrived at on our own."
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