Other than that, it’s been lots of streaming (The Office, The Larry Sanders Show), lots of pot and lots of tweeting. Like so many others, he worked remotely, taking calls about film projects 9 to 5. It will soon sell Rogen’s first commercial foray into ceramics: a sumptuously packaged ashtray and bud vase set priced at $85, or about €70 – designed by him, but made in China – that unites his twin passions, jays and clays. It’s a fragmented memoir made up of comical essays recalling his early stand-up gigs as a teenager, adventures at Jewish summer camp in his native Canada and “way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like”, per the cover flap.Ī smoke hound of Willie Nelson proportions, Rogen has also succeeded in bringing Houseplant, the Canadian cannabis company he started in 2019 with his longtime film partner, Evan Goldberg, to the United States. He also spent quarantine finishing his first book, Yearbook, which Penguin Random House will publish in May. He fashioned them in the garage studio of the home he shares with his wife, Lauren Miller Rogen, a 38-year-old actor and director, and their Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Zelda. I maybe physically ran away from them.”īelying his widely cloned laid-back mien, Rogen has kept busy during the pandemic, even as large swaths of film and television production went into a deep freeze, along with so much else in the world.Īs his millions of Instagram followers are well aware, he got seriously into ceramics, posting endless photos of colourfully whimsical vases, soap dispensers and ashtrays. And if the person who did that is reading this, I’d like to apologise for my reaction. It just hasn’t happened to me in so long. “Wearing a mask and everything, and someone recognised me,” he says. He doesn’t leave his home in Los Angeles much, but the other day he ventured out to an ATM. Even fans who recognise him on the streets, he jokes, “think I’m just some guy who looks like me”. “Before the pandemic, I would wander around LA aimlessly without anyone taking pictures of me for months and months and months on end,” Rogen says. I often will wake up in the middle of the night and have a few hits of a joint if I’m not sleeping well I drink my coffee as I smoke my joint, and I continue smoking weed until I go to sleep.
But “ordinary” still serves as a form of camouflage out on the streets. Rogen, who is 38 and also a screenwriter, director and producer, long ago transcended the beta-male image to become a Hollywood power player. In Steve Jobs, from 2015, he fully inhabited the role of Steve Wozniak, the amiable Apple cofounder who seemed all too content to cede the magazine covers, the billions and, basically, history itself to his swashbuckling partner in the black turtleneck. In his breakout 2007 comedy, Knocked Up, Rogen played the directionless stoner who somehow got the girl, and neither could understand why. It’s a relatable everydude persona that has won him nearly 100 film and television roles, small and large, over the past two decades. The ironic T-shirts straining to contain an unapologetic dad bod.
Seth Rogen is well aware of the fact that he looks like seemingly one-quarter of the white men in Los Angeles between the ages of 25 and 50. The 6pm bed head.