Like so many others, he worked remotely taking calls on film projects 9 through 5. Apart from that, there was a lot of streaming (“The Office”, “The Larry Sanders Show”), a lot of pot and a lot of tweeting.
Mr. Rogen started trending on Twitter when he broke into a high-profile flame war with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas that lasted for days after inauguration, suggesting that Mr. Cruz was only suitable for admiration, “if you are a white supremacist fascist who does not find it offensive if someone calls your wife ugly ”, along with various profanities.
When Senator Cruz later tweeted that Mr. Rogen acted like a “Marxist with Tourette” online, Mr. Rogen replied that he had “a very mild case” of the syndrome, but he certainly did not give in. Twenty years ago it would have been difficult to betray a famous stranger that way, said Mr Rogen – “but now, thank God, I can do it. People always say, “You’re like that on Twitter, but if you meet him face to face, you wouldn’t.” And that is very not true. I would 100% tell Ted Cruz to… cover your ears, kids!
Still life
Mr. Rogen joked about “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in April last year he was “self-isolating since 2009”.
A friend since elementary school in Vancouver, Mr. Goldberg, who speaks to him daily, agrees that Mr. Rogen is “the exact opposite of going insane.”
“As a celebrity who doesn’t like going out and drinking and that sort of thing, he’s probably one of the best to deal with. He loves being in his house, ”said 38-year-old Goldberg. “He loves to pursue his hobbies, he loves to watch TV on his couch with his wife and dog. And that’s it. He loves that. I know he secretly loves to get stuck. “
After the offices of Point Gray Pictures, their production company, closed, Mr. Rogen and Mr. Goldberg had a lot to talk about. You are writing a screenplay for the director Luca Guadagnino about Scotty Bowers, a former gas station attendant who arranged sexual relations for the stars in the era of the big screen.
