[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Studio Season 1 Episode 8, “Golden Globes.”]
Seth Rogen‘s Matt Remmick spends the whole thing of the The Studio‘s Golden Globes episode desperately attempting to get Zoë Kravitz to thank him in her speech if she wins for her movie produced by Continental Studios. This was the scene The Studio previewed through the precise 2025 Golden Globe Awards forward of its premiere earlier this 12 months (see the clip under). After a lot degrading, begging, and watching Sal Saperstein (Ike Barinholtz) get thanked in each speech as a bit began by Adam Scott, Matt acquired his point out. However The Studio would by no means let Matt win with no humorous strings connected.
Zoë did, certainly, thank Matt on the finish of her speech, however her mic lower out proper as she stated his identify. The Studio creator Alex Gregory tells TV Insider {that a} assembly with a Hollywood govt whereas researching for the collection immediately impressed this complete plot.
“We did lots of conferences with executives beforehand, advertising individuals, PR individuals, studio heads, producers — anybody who had a place of authority inside a studio, we met with,” Gregory says. “And one studio head stated that if she wasn’t thanked in an award speech, she cried the entire limo trip dwelling. And we’re like, think about what leads as much as that. That was the genesis of that episode.”
The episode was The Studio‘s most star-studded but, with Scott, Ramy Youssef, and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos in visitor star roles and cameos from Jean Sensible and the creators of Hacks (although Hacks wasn’t talked about by identify), Quinta Brunson, Aaron Sorkin, and extra. Matt crossed paths with Sarandos within the Golden Globes rest room and requested how he satisfied so many individuals to thank him of their speeches. He stated it was a contractual obligation for each single certainly one of them.
“I used to be blown away by getting Ted,” Gregory tells us. “What a trooper to come back throughout the aisle try this. It simply reveals what a fan of comedy he’s and simply what a great sport he’s.”
Not like Paramount, which reportedly didn’t get a heads up when Nathan Fielder deliberate a whole scathing episode of The Rehearsal Season 2 concerning the studio, the Golden Globes was knowledgeable prematurely that The Studio can be dedicating a whole episode to that awards present. Manufacturing was liable for recreating the occasion themselves, however the awards physique didn’t cease them from parodying its occasion.
“We needed to make our personal statues that resemble, however aren’t precisely Golden Globes, and I don’t know that we had been ready to make use of any Globes imagery and advertising trailers and stuff,” Gregory tells us, “so I’m unsure what the precise overlap is, however the Globes, I don’t suppose they helped or hindered. They allow us to do our factor and that was it. But it surely wasn’t like, oh yeah, right here’s some statues and right here’s our from final 12 months, right here’s our brand. We needed to do all of it ourselves.”
Rogen, a creator and govt producer along with star of The Studio, performed an enormous half on this particular episode as a result of he’s the one who’s been to this occasion essentially the most among the many manufacturing employees (the forged, particularly a number of award-winner Catherine O’Hara, is not any stranger to awards season). They filmed the episode in the identical lodge and ballroom the place the Globes takes place, and so they recreated the stage to make it carefully resemble the true factor. There was a further dedication to consideration to element on this installment.
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Rogen “is aware of at a mobile stage what issues seem like and really feel like, and so if it doesn’t really feel proper, he doesn’t need to do it. He doesn’t need to do something that doesn’t really feel genuine,” Gregory explains. “And so he’s been to the Globes a bazillion instances, so he’s like, that is what they seem like, that is what they really feel like, that is what they serve, that is the place the bar is. And so we simply went to the precise lodge the place they do it and in the identical ballroom the place they do it.”
“We had been very lucky to get some actually enjoyable cameos, like Aaron Sorkin, simply to provide it a sense of authenticity,” Gregory goes on. “That was the factor. It needed to really feel prefer it wasn’t individuals pretending to be celebrities. It needed to be the true celebrities. The scope of it was immense. And the lodge was beneath development, so it was a type of issues the place we had been jammed to get all of it performed, however we one way or the other pulled it off and I used to be actually proud of the way it got here out.”
The most important hurdle of this episode wasn’t reserving the additional superstar cameos, however moderately managing the sheer scale of the manufacturing. “Continuity is an enormous factor,” Gregory says. “Fortunately, the way in which we shoot, we simply get it or we don’t. So it’s not the most important challenge in comparison with different reveals the place you’re doing from completely different angles, the identical shot, but it surely was managing an enormous crowd and appearing with an enormous crowd and never with the ability to do like, oh, we’ll lower it collectively later. No, it needed to be performed on the day within the second. And then you definately’re utilizing cranes and handheld [cameras]. It was a ballet to get all of it performed.”
On condition that, Gregory says that their manufacturing designer, Julie Berghoff, “deserves each accolade that the enterprise can bestow upon an individual.”
The Studio was renewed for Season 2 on Tuesday, Could 6. Right here’s hoping there’s an Oscars episode in its future.
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