There were few funnier things this year than watching the trio of Bryan Cranston, Zoë Kravitz and Dave Franco realize they mistakenly ingested too many mushrooms on The Studio.
That season one finale of the Apple TV+ Hollywood satire series saw Seth Rogen‘s Hollywood studio head, Matt Remick, screw up the dosage of mushrooms that he offered both his coworkers and talent ahead of a mega presentation at San Diego Comic Con.
Turns out, something similar to Rogen and his co-creator Evan Goldberg in real life.
“[In The Studio], we’re supposed to give a big presentation for the studio and we accidentally… we think we’re all microdosing shrooms, but we all macrodose shrooms. Which is 100 percent a thing that happened to me and Evan [Goldberg] in real life,” Rogen told Jimmy Fallon when visiting The Tonight Show to promote the Emmy-nominated comedy.
Rogen admitted that “not surprisingly, I’ve mistimed the ingestion of drugs with important events in my life.”
As the story goes, Rogen and Goldberg were promoting their 2013 comedy This Is the End and the morning after the movie premiere, he says they were scheduled to appear on Marc Maron’s highly popular, longform WTF podcast. “We stayed up very late doing mushrooms. A lot of mushrooms,” he said. “The next morning, we live right near each other, so we were picked up by the same car and we were getting driven to the podcast and we looked at each other and we were both like, ‘I think I’m still on mushrooms.’ And we’re about to do like a long, in-depth interview. I think I’m still on shrooms!”
Their idea was to “pound” coffee to hopefully shock their brains “back to being normal,” but he said the effect was the opposite. By the time they arrived at Maron’s studio, they looked at each other and communicated with their eyes only to say: “I’m still 100 percent on mushrooms right now.”
Rogen said they somehow did the entire interview, and he has been afraid to listen to the 2013 podcast ever since. “For better or worse, I’ve been told you can’t tell we’re on mushrooms, which I actually think is bad for me as a person. It means that right now I could be on tons of mushrooms and I’d be acting exactly the same!”
Fallon also brought up the mega A-list cameos in The Studio, including Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, who appears in the background of the Golden Globes-centered episode. “I wanted people who are savvy with how television shows are made to think we were only able to license footage of him, and then we actually got him,” he said, joking, “To get the CEO of Netflix to appear on an Apple show just shows you how unthreatened Netflix is by Apple.”
Rogen, meanwhile, is currently starring opposite Rose Byrne on season two of his other Apple TV+ series, Platonic.