How Seth Rogen’s Apple TV+ Comedy ‘The Studio’ is shot

“If we screw it up, just keep going!” Seth Rogen, who wears a tuxedo with a rust -colored jacket The studio. It is June 2024 and the actors play doctors who go into a donation gala alongside Rogen’s studio mogul Matt Remick in a dialog-driven scene in a long, continuous attitude, also known as “ONER”. “It is good to end the first couple (take) for morality,” says Rogen his castmates.

The high-stakes cinema device of the One, which is used in films such as Orson Welles’ Touch of evilMartin Scorsese Goodfellas and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdmanrepeated everywhere The studioThe most impressive in episode two “The Oner”, of which every 25 minutes were shot in one setting. This episode revolves around a catastrophic visit that Matt, head of the fictional Continental Studios, makes a set on which director Sarah Polley, who plays a version of himself, tries to conquer his own on tours.

As the “ONER” episode represents, Cinephiles revered the complicated recordings that have to be planned meticulously and that are dependent on a set on a set, including the cameraman, the actors and the sound crew. The use of owners this season of The studio It serves to improve fear that the core conflict of the show, the Matts is real love to film, and the fact that his job often contains it in the name of trade.

“An owner creates a feeling of stress and tension that is part of the show” The Hollywood reporter Begins before filming. “And it is a welcome deviation from my earlier career experience to find out things in the mail.”

There is a certain seriousness about filmmaking, the Rogen and the protagonists of his show – as a viewer, expressed skepticism towards The studioRogen activated his threads account on social media to share videos from Set.

Rogen, who staged all 10 episodes of the series with his long -time writing partner Evan Goldberg, said he had the idea for The studio While Steven Spielberg’s 2022 -coming-of-Age-Drama 2022 is doing The Fabelmans. But many of the core ideas on the show, which come from a meeting rogue and Goldberg with a studio manager who gave them notes for a project. “He said,” I came to this business to make films, “says Rogen.” Now I’m ruining her. ”

As part of their research for the show, Rogen, Goldberg and the authors, including the author of this episode, VeepAlex Gregory interviewed Studio Managers and filmmakers about her wildest and strangest Hollywood moments. “Everyone has stories,” says Rogen. These stories fueled screenplays for Matt and his colleagues from the film industry, played by Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders and Bryan Cranston as well as a guests occupied with stars, which belonged to Martin Scorse, Charlize Theron, Zoë Kravitz and Ron Howard. The cross -industry audience was fun to coordinate the fictional characters with their practical colleagues.

As a result, on this June day, in episode six, “The Pediatric Oncologist”, which Apple dropped on April 23, Matt visits Matt with his new love interest Sarah, a pediatric oncologist played by Rebecca Hall. In the bladder of the entertainment industry, Matt’s daily decisions about film green light, screenplay notes and how much diarrhea feels in the new Johnny Knoxville trailer such as life or death. But among Sarah and her doctor colleagues, people who actively commit themselves to rescue life, Matt’s uncertainty and its terrific, and its terrific, flare.

Matt’s fragile ego is pierced when the conversation on his characteristic franchise, Continentals Mk UltraOr “the exploding head films”, as a doctor calls them, can be seen as “art”. “It is art,” Rogen Matt Bellows, when the camera follows him and the line -up that goes over the ballroom. “All films are art. Can’t really choose which films are art.”

The average number of requirements required to do a right one this season was Rogen, was about 16 years old. With an envelope, Rogen calls “Cut!” And the line -up returns to their starting stamps.

The 10 episodes of the half -hour comedy debuted on March 26 on Apple TV+, with one episode fell weekly by May 21st.