“If we spoil, continue!” Seth Rogen, wearing a tuxedo with a rusty -colored jacket, gives a speech of encouragement to a group of actors on the point of sweeping a ballroom at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles on the set of his Apple TV + program The studio. We are in June 2024 and the actors played doctors entering a fundraising gala next to the Rogen studio magnate, Matt Remick, in a scene focused on dialogue in a long continuous shot, also known as “oner”. “It is good to finish the first (taken), for morale,” Rogen told his comrades.
The high -challenged wave film film system, deployed in a memorable way in films like Orson Welles Evil keyMartin Scorsese Goodfellas and Alejandro G. Iñárritu Birdrecurs throughout The studioThe most impressive in episode 2, “The Oner”, whose 25 minutes were shot in a single catch. This episode focuses on a disastrous visit that Matt, chief of the fictitious continental studios, makes a set where director Sarah Polley, playing a version of herself, tries to capture her own oner.
As illustrated by the episode “ONER”, the moviegoers worship the complicated photos, which must be meticulously planned and which rest on everyone on a set doing their work perfectly, including the camera operator, the actors and the sound team. The use of oners throughout this season of The studio is used to amplify the anxiety which fuels the central conflict of the program, which is Matt’s true love for films, and the fact that his work often implies destroying them in the name of trade.
“A oner creates a feeling of stress and tension that is part of the show,” says Rogen, stopping next to an instructor to speak before filming. “And this is a welcome gap in relation to my previous career experience to understand things stationed.”
There is a certain seriousness in the cinema that Rogen and the protagonist of his program share – when a spectator expressed his skepticism The studioOners on social networks, Rogen has activated his Threads account to share set videos.
Rogen, who made the 10 episodes of the series with his longtime writing partner Evan Goldberg, says he had the idea The studio While doing Steven Spielberg drama in 2022 Fabelmans. But a large part of the basic ideas of the series derived from a meeting that Rogen and Goldberg had with a studio director who gave them notes on a project. “He said:” I entered this business to make films “”, explains Rogen. “” Now I ruin them “.” (Although Rogen refused to appoint the executive while turning this scene, he has since identified it as president of the 20th century studios Steve Asbell).
As part of their research for the program, Rogen, Goldberg and the writers, including the author of this episode, VeepAlex Gregory, interviewed studio leaders and filmmakers on their wildest and strangest Hollywood moments. “Everyone has stories,” says Rogen. These stories fueled scripts for Matt and his colleagues from the film industry, played by Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Su Wonders and Bryan Cranston, as well as a star guest playing themselves who included Martin Scorse, Charlize Theron, Zoë Kravitz and Ron Howard. The public informed of the industry had fun trying to match the fictitious characters to their real counterparts.
In the episode shot on this June day, episode 6, “The Pediatric Oncologist”, which Apple abandoned on April 25, Matt attended the cancer fundraising gala with his new romantic interest, Sarah, a pediatric oncologist played by Rebecca Hall. Within the bubble of the entertainment industry, Matt’s daily decisions on the film Greenlights, script notes and diarrhea to show in the new trailer of Johnny Knoxville feel like life or death. But among Sarah and her doctoral students, people who are actively engaged in the field of saving lives, Matt’s insecurity – and his grandiosity – Flare.
Matt’s fragile ego is perceived when the conversation turns if its signature franchise, continental MK UltraOr “the exploding head films”, as a doctor calls him, can be considered “art”. “It’s art”, Rogen like Matt Bellows while the camera follows and the casting walking on the ballroom. “All films are art. I can’t really choose which films are art.”
The average number of sockets required to get an onion properly this season, says Rogen, was about 16 years old. With a drop, Rogen calls “coupe!” And the casting returns to their starting marks.
The 10 episodes of the half-hour comedy made their debut on Apple TV + on March 26, with an episode falling every week until May 21.
