The favored comedy collection The Studio delves into the nitty gritty of the filmmaking trade, so it’s solely applicable that actors, writers, administrators and extra inventive expertise from Hollywood have cameoed as themselves. Examples of this we’ve seen through the present’s run on the 2025 TV schedule embody Charlize Theron cameoing simply to say one line and Ron Howard enjoying the “asshole” model of himself. However because it seems, the dearth of availability from sure celebrities additionally prompted “complete episodes” of The Studio to be outright shelved, which I realized whereas talking with govt producers Frida Perez and Peter Huyck.
Throughout this interview, the place I additionally realized why Seth Rogen falls down a lot on this Apple TV+ subscription-exclusive present, I used to be inquisitive about if there have been ever cases the place somebody’s unavailability to play themselves resulted in main story modifications for The Studio Season 1. Perez confirmed that this had certainly occurred, saying:
Positively. Such as you stated, the celebrities are actually essential to the tales, and we did not need it to really feel like a mad lib of you would simply swap somebody in after which you would simply maintain the entire script the identical. So we actually wrote to each individual we forged, and after we after we had been writing it, we considered individuals and if that did not work, we might principally rewrite most of it to love actually match the individual we had been making an attempt to get.
Seth Rogen and his companion Evan Goldberg created The Studio with Frida Perez, Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory, so between all of them, Rogen and Goldberg specifically, they’re not missing in methods to recruit huge visitor stars. Nonetheless, generally schedules simply don’t align or there’s an absence of curiosity from approached events, necessitating episodes to nearly fully rewritten. I get Perez’s rationale although, in the event that they’d gone all Mad Libs with these episodes, the tales would nearly actually have flowed extra weirdly.
Thankfully, that didn’t find yourself being a difficulty when director Sarah Polley, who labored with Rogen on the 2011 film Take This Waltz, performed herself in The Studio’s second episode, “The Oner.” As Peter Huyck advised me after Perez stated her piece:
Yeah, and numerous cases like within the oner [with] Sarah Polley, that was instantly Seth and Evan’s first hope was that she could be the right individual to play that director in a set go to episode the place Seth’s character simply ruins take after take. As a result of Seth had labored together with her, and he stated she’s a lot funnier than anybody is aware of. So to let her come out of the world of the type of the extra dramatic items she does and simply be so intense and so comedic was good. And she or he was, I believe, one of many first folks that signed on. And so there are these casting items [where] when once they land, it is good.
I’m glad it labored out with Sarah Polley, a former actress, as she did an incredible job conveying the frustration of Seth Rogen’s Matt Remick frequently ruining her one take pictures for her romantic drama. However once more, there are occasions when issues simply don’t work out and the episodes should be put aside, though that’s to not say they will’t be revisited if The Studio Season 2 occurs. As Huyck added:
However there are different episodes for positive the place we had been making an attempt for a really particular piece of casting, and if it did not work, I believe we shelved complete episodes as a result of there’s actually one or two individuals, an actor, director, actress on the earth who would match the invoice, and if we did not get them, we might say, ‘Okay, Season 2, we’ll attempt once more.’
With three episodes left to go in The Studio Season 1, it’s exhausting to say if Season 2 is within the playing cards, though I’d prefer to assume that it stands a robust likelihood given what number of constructive critiques the collection has acquired. If that finally ends up taking place, fingers crossed Peter Huyck’s need to revisit these shelved episodes is fulfilled. If the celebrities who had been unable in Season 1 are capable of mess around in Season 2, why let a good suggestion simply go to waste?