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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Seth Rogen Opens Up About His Self-Doubt & Struggles That Nobody Sees!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Education, Business

4.517.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Seth Rogen is a comedian, writer, director and producer whose films have together grossed $2.8 billion at the box office. In comedy since he was 12 years old, it’s all he’s ever known, and he’s one of the biggest comedy forces on the planet. Podcast description: Seth Rogen is a comedian, writer, director and producer whose films have together grossed $2.8 billion at the box office. In comedy since he was 12 years old, it’s all he’s ever known, and he’s one of the biggest comedy forces on the planet. Opening up for the first time on the dementia diagnosis that tore his family apart, as well as the toll that bad reviews can do to the people who make films, Seth is a good guy trying to make his way in an industry that famously rewards bad behaviour. He tells us what that’s really like. For many people, Seth provided the narration for their adolescence with iconic, classic movies like Superbad and Pineapple Express - hilariously mining his own fumbles on his journey into adulthood for comic effect. Now, through his weed company Houseplant, he takes people on a journey of a different source as the supplier of one of the most popular suppliers of legal weed in North America. Seth’s personal essay collection, Yearbook, is available March 7th: https://www.amazon.com/Yearbook-Seth-Rogen/ Seth: Instagram - https://bit.ly/3SNsLA9 Twitter - https://bit.ly/3Yov5yv Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there.

0:01.0

Welcome.

0:02.0

Hey!

0:03.0

Seth Rog Rogan!

0:05.0

Writer, producer and actor you know from Pineapple Express knocked up and super bad.

0:09.7

The club is!

0:11.7

In Hollywood, it's not a fair industry. It is not fair who makes it. Any given phone call is one that is making your life or one that is yet another door slamming in your face.

0:23.0

We had finished super bad, and then we wrote Pineapple Express.

0:26.0

No one wanted to make it.

0:28.3

But if you don't quit, you might make it.

0:32.0

People would obviously look at you and assume that you have zero self doubt because you've been so successful in what you've done.

0:36.4

But what's your journey been with self doubt?

0:38.6

I'm at the point it's funny in my career where like not a lot of people are in a position to like yell at me but I will

0:43.9

have a cultural institution tell everyone that I suck that will add self-doubt.

0:49.9

Green Hornet you received critical reviews for. Like what's that phase like?

0:54.4

Any opening weekend honestly and any time I have a thing coming out it sucks. I think if most

1:01.2

critics knew how much it hurt the people that they are writing about

1:05.2

they would second-guess the way they write these things like it's devastating

1:10.1

on something that people carry with them literally their entire lives.

1:15.0

I read that you'd said you would find life really hard without marijuana.

1:19.0

I smoke weed all day.

1:20.0

And I've been very productive in that time.

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