- Hello, MTV.
I'm Seth Rogen.
We're on the set of 'Knocked Up.'
We're in the San Fernando Valley of California,
and it's around 110 degrees.
It was actually the hottest day ever on record
in Los Angeles a few days ago, so -
makes for good comedy, if you ask me.
Let's check out what's inside.
Ah!
[Laughs]
- [Off screen] Kill him! - [Off screen] Finish him!
[Cast laughing]
- Submit! Submit!
- [Interviewer] So, just explain to us
how this script came up.
I mean, did you basically write this
before '[The] 40-Year-Old Virgin'? Afterwards?
- I wrote it after '[The] 40-Year-Old Virgin.'
I was looking to do something with Seth Rogen,
and he pitched me a lot of ideas
that were big and science fiction-y.
And I said, "You don't need all that stuff.
You just need to, like, get a girl pregnant or something."
And he said, "Oh, that sounds like a good idea."
And we were off.
[Cast cheering]
- Well, I found out I was doing the movie from the newspaper.
I was on —
I do a TV show called 'How I Met Your Mother.'
CBS, sup? [Tongue clicking]
And the director came up and said, "Hey, I didn't know you got a movie?"
And I said, "What are you talking about?"
And she showed me in some newspaper.
It said — all about 'Knocked Up'
and Jason Segel will also star, so —
then, I called Judd and said, "What's going on?"
And he said, "Show up for rehearsal in April."
So, it was pretty crazy.
[Cast and crew chatting]
- [Interviewer] Jonah, what was it about your one scene
in '[The] 40-Year-Old Virgin' that was so powerful,
that Judd just had to have you back?
- I don't know, man. Judd is, like, my favorite writer
and director around, and I just improvised, like, a ton of stuff,
and I think he thought I was funny
and he put me in this movie.
And then, he's letting me star
in my first movie right after this.
So, I'm real excited.
It's called 'Superbad.'
- What? Whoa, s**t!
Oh, f**k! F**k, my hands!
- Oh!
- [Apatow] "Oh, Jesus! There's a lady in the lake!"
- [Laughs] What?
- [Off camera] "Oh, Jesus. There's a lady in the lake."
- Like the ‘Lady in the Lake’?
- [Off camera] "Oh, Jesus. There's a lady in the lake."
- Oh, jeez! There's a lady in the water!
M. Night [Shyamalan]!
Judd's great 'cause he just walks out
and he'll be, like, you know, "Improvise on this. Go," you know,
"That'd be funny," you know, "'Lady in the Water.'"
Then you go on a whole run about M. Night Shyamalan
and 'Lady in the Water,' and it's like, you know —
there's a lot of pressure to be really funny,
but it almost makes you funnier
because you're not just coasting through.
You're not just memorizing lines and coming in. You're like —
You have the ability to, like, come up with your own stuff,
but you better be funny, I guess. [Laughs] You know what I mean?
- [Apatow] "Oh, that water's dirty!"
- Oh, that water's nasty, man!
I took a dump in there, last week.
- [Off camera] Cut! Cut, cut, cut.
[Video beeping]
- Basically, after '[The] 40-Year-Old Virgin,'
in which, he could've made anything he wanted to,
He said, "I'm gonna make Seth Rogen a movie star."
And that's why we're doing this movie.
- He really could've done anything.
I think he was offered 'Spider-Man 3,'
but he turned it down to do this, 'Knocked Up,'
with me, for some reason. So, I'm not gonna ask any questions.
I'm just gonna sink the talons in deep and not let go.
- [Interviewer] Have you given any advice to Seth?
You know, this is his first real starring role.
What kind of advice have you given him?
- I haven't really given him any advice, man.
If I would say anything, I've learned so much from Seth about,
like, how to make these kind of movies
'cause he's doing an incredible job, and
he's hilarious and a really good actor.
- It's neat to see Seth playing the lead character,
because he is so natural.
He brings such a regular-guy thing to the table,
that I think people will really, really appreciate it.
- [Interviewer] So in this post— '40-Year-Old Virgin' environment,
are you just being able to get all your stuff green-lit at this point?
How nice is that?
- It's nice to be allowed to do some of the things
that we've always wanted to do, that people always said "no" to.
So, we're gonna do it while they let us, until they stop us.
They may stop us at any moment,
but we're gonna try to get as much done
in this window of opportunity.
- [Interviewer] Exactly. Well, keep up the good work.
- All right, thank you.
- [Interviewer] Thanks a lot, Judd. Appreciate it.