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| Tuesday, September 4, 2007 |
The AJL Mini Hot List: Seth Rogen (Hot next big thing)
This is part of our Mini Hot List in the Sep/Oct 2007 issue.
Move over Johnny Depp, Tobey Maguire and the Ocean's Thirteen movie hunk trifecta of Clooney, Pitt, and Damon. The star with the biggest slice of this summer's box office pie just might be Seth Rogen, thanks to this summer's hit comedy Knocked Up and a bit part (as the ship captain) in the animated smash Shrek the Third. And the comedy Superbad (which he wrote and stars in) is currently cashing in at the box office.
"It's a very filthy, funny movie," sums up Rogen, previously best known for supporting roles in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (which he co-produced) and TV series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, all with director Judd Apatow.
Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg began writing the transparently autobiographical tale of two horny high schoolers soon after they met in bar mitzvah class in their native Vancouver, and they've since written another comedy for release next summer called Pineapple Express, about a pair of stoners (starring Rogen and fellow Freaks and Geeks alumnus James Franco) on the run after witnessing a murder.
Now 25, Rogen has a dozen years' experience in the comic trenches, with credits including standup at a lesbian bar, his Jewish summer camp, and writing jokes for a mohel who wanted to be funny during circumcisions. His busy 2008 slate also includes roles in the comedy Fanboys (January), the fantasy Spiderwick Chronicles (February), and the animated Horton Hears a Who, with the voice of Jim Carrey as the titular elephant (March).
The Knocked Up DVD will be out in October, and Rogen promises a plethora of outtakes considering the heavy improvisation. "We shot three times as much as they normally do in movies so it should make for hours of filthy, filthy jokes," he says. As for the movie's ostensibly improbable premise, Rogen doesn't think it's all that farfetched, since he says his live-in girlfriend of two years was out of his league when they met, "and there's a long line of Jews getting tall blonde girls in film. I'm just the next in line."
-- Text by Gerri Miller
This is part of our Mini Hot List in the Sep/Oct 2007 issue.
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