Seth Rogen is an Emmy winner. Capping an unimaginable awards season run for his Apple TV+ hit “The Studio, Rogen gained the Emmy for Greatest Actor in a Comedy Sequence.
It’s an absolute triumph for the 43-year-old actor after working in Hollywood for greater than 25 years and scoring huge field workplace successes, however by no means fairly getting main awards recognition up to now. He beat nominees Adam Brody (“No person Desires This”), Jason Segel (“Shrinking”), Martin Brief (“Solely Murders within the Constructing”), and Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear”) to win the prize.
Rogen had been nominated for Emmys 5 instances earlier than this 12 months, starting from a writing nod for “Da Ali G Present” to an Excellent Drama Sequence nod for producing “The Boys” to his work as a supporting actor in “Pam & Tommy.”
However “The Studio” lastly put Rogen excessive. Taking part in Matt Remick, a longtime veteran of fictional Continental Studios, all of a sudden promoted to be its head of manufacturing, Rogen captures a really 2025 sense of artwork versus commerce. He doesn’t consider field workplace success and high quality are at odds, and when given a mandate from CEO Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston, enjoying a personality with the identical title as Tim Robbins’ character in “The Participant”) to draft off Barbie’s success and make a film about Kool-Support, he initially tries to enlist Martin Scorsese to make a film about Jonestown. That doesn’t go anyplace, and Rogen has mentioned he’s lengthy noticed the inherent comedy in film studio moguls having to disappoint their idols. The season in the end took viewers to a full-scale recreation of the Golden Globes on the Beverly Hilton to Las Vegas, the place Mill has a disastrous mushroom excessive at The Venetian.
Rogen’s precisely the sort of Hollywood insider to have made “The Studio” — sure, he’s considered one of its creators alongside longtime inventive companion Evan Goldberg and several other others, they usually’ve directed all the sequence as nicely. In any case, he all however ended a complete regime at Sony Footage when his 2014 comedy about assassinating Kim Jong Un, “The Interview,” resulted in North Korea truly hacking then-distributor Sony’s company-wide emails, together with these despatched by co-chair Amy Pascal, who then stepped down from her publish.
Now, Rogen has delivered his personal meta-commentary on the business, and picked up fairly an honor for it.