Seth Rogen: acting chemistry is a mysterious thing

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Seth Rogen considers on-screen chemistry to be a "mysterious thing".
The 43-year-old has developed a very successful working partnership with Australian actress Rose Byrne over the years, but he struggles to explain why some actors form such productive partnerships.
Rogen - who stars alongside Byrne in Platonic, the TV comedy series - told The Hollywood Reporter: "In film chemistry is a mysterious thing; you never know who you're going to have good chemistry with.
"There's people who are great friends in real life that have terrible chemistry on screen," he said.
"I've had great chemistry with people I don't particularly like that much and so I'm very lucky in this situation where I have chemistry with someone who I actually like. So I think that's why we keep working together over and over again."
Rogen and his writing partner, Evan Goldberg, now have their own production company and the comedy star previously reflected on his changing status in Hollywood.
"There was a meeting with an executive who was giving us notes when we were young who said, 'I got into this because I love movies and now it's my job to ruin them'," he told Sharp magazine.
"That one sentence really resonated heavily with us. Most importantly, we started to view it as being very comedic, like, it's a very funny dynamic if you love movies and the people associated with them.
"A lot of these people who work at studios just want to be liked by the filmmakers and the actors and the writers, and they just want to feel as though they're part of the creative side of things. But at the same time, they're constantly having to do things for their own self-preservation."
Rogen has actually witnessed a "huge dynamic shift" during his time in Hollywood.
"I'm so used to being 20 years younger than the people that I'm reporting to that it only reaffirms this subservient dynamic. And I think now that I'm older, you start to view it much more of like, 'These are people I work with and together we have to make a good thing.' And they want it to be good, but they also don't want to get fired."
Seth Rogen considers on-screen chemistry to be a "mysterious thing".
The 43-year-old has developed a very successful working partnership with Australian actress Rose Byrne over the years, but he struggles to explain why some actors form such productive partnerships.
Rogen - who stars alongside Byrne in Platonic, the TV comedy series - told The Hollywood Reporter: "In film chemistry is a mysterious thing; you never know who you're going to have good chemistry with.
"There's people who are great friends in real life that have terrible chemistry on screen," he said.
"I've had great chemistry with people I don't particularly like that much and so I'm very lucky in this situation where I have chemistry with someone who I actually like. So I think that's why we keep working together over and over again."
Rogen and his writing partner, Evan Goldberg, now have their own production company and the comedy star previously reflected on his changing status in Hollywood.
"There was a meeting with an executive who was giving us notes when we were young who said, 'I got into this because I love movies and now it's my job to ruin them'," he told Sharp magazine.
"That one sentence really resonated heavily with us. Most importantly, we started to view it as being very comedic, like, it's a very funny dynamic if you love movies and the people associated with them.
"A lot of these people who work at studios just want to be liked by the filmmakers and the actors and the writers, and they just want to feel as though they're part of the creative side of things. But at the same time, they're constantly having to do things for their own self-preservation."
Rogen has actually witnessed a "huge dynamic shift" during his time in Hollywood.
"I'm so used to being 20 years younger than the people that I'm reporting to that it only reaffirms this subservient dynamic. And I think now that I'm older, you start to view it much more of like, 'These are people I work with and together we have to make a good thing.' And they want it to be good, but they also don't want to get fired."
Seth Rogen considers on-screen chemistry to be a "mysterious thing".
The 43-year-old has developed a very successful working partnership with Australian actress Rose Byrne over the years, but he struggles to explain why some actors form such productive partnerships.
Rogen - who stars alongside Byrne in Platonic, the TV comedy series - told The Hollywood Reporter: "In film chemistry is a mysterious thing; you never know who you're going to have good chemistry with.
"There's people who are great friends in real life that have terrible chemistry on screen," he said.
"I've had great chemistry with people I don't particularly like that much and so I'm very lucky in this situation where I have chemistry with someone who I actually like. So I think that's why we keep working together over and over again."
Rogen and his writing partner, Evan Goldberg, now have their own production company and the comedy star previously reflected on his changing status in Hollywood.
"There was a meeting with an executive who was giving us notes when we were young who said, 'I got into this because I love movies and now it's my job to ruin them'," he told Sharp magazine.
"That one sentence really resonated heavily with us. Most importantly, we started to view it as being very comedic, like, it's a very funny dynamic if you love movies and the people associated with them.
"A lot of these people who work at studios just want to be liked by the filmmakers and the actors and the writers, and they just want to feel as though they're part of the creative side of things. But at the same time, they're constantly having to do things for their own self-preservation."
Rogen has actually witnessed a "huge dynamic shift" during his time in Hollywood.
"I'm so used to being 20 years younger than the people that I'm reporting to that it only reaffirms this subservient dynamic. And I think now that I'm older, you start to view it much more of like, 'These are people I work with and together we have to make a good thing.' And they want it to be good, but they also don't want to get fired."