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This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam Forgo, so welcome to the show.

Today, actor, writer, producer, Seth Rogen.

Rogan came of age in an era of abundance, a Hollywood that made big budget comedies that did real box office, 40-year-old virgin, knocked up, super bad, pineapple express. For a time, roughly between

2005 and 2014, he represented something of a growing contingent in American life,

the self-aware, self-medicated man-child, stunted or stoned enough to still act like a boy,

yet just aware enough to know that someday soon, he'll have to become a man.

If the aughts turn Rogan into an emblem for arrested development, his next decade was one of lifted productivity.

The slack-jawed stoner turned prolific producer.

Even his pension for pot became a profitable business called Houseplant.

When he wasn't working behind the scenes on shows like The Boys and Preacher,

he was in front of the camera, becoming a really talented, versatile actor.

He played Steve Wozniak in Danny Boyle's biopic of Steve Jobs, a lovelorn uncle in Stephen Spielberg's deeply personal film, The Fableman's.

Rogan's latest project, however, is the culmination of his experiences with Hollywood at large.

The show is called The Studio, and in it, Rogan plays Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of Continental Studios.

It's a dream job he's been pursuing his whole life, and has now finally, and rather unexpectedly, landed at his doorstep for better or worse.

Here's a clip from the trailer.

Prestige Films and box office hits. Those are not mutually exclusive.

We can do both and we will do both.

Matt, I get it. You want to make great art and make a billion dollars doing it.

Well, guess what? That never happens.

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