Seth Rogen has revealed that Apple, the platform for his Apple TV+ series “The Studio,” pushed for a cameo appearance by their CEO, Tim Cook, in the show. However, Rogen opted to give the cameo role to Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos instead.
Caralynn Matassa for Business Insider:
“The Studio,” Seth Rogen’s new Apple TV+ comedy, is stuffed with cameo appearances from real famous people playing themselves. But one guest star is more surprising than the others: Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Apple TV+’s streaming rival, Netflix.
Apparently, Apple had some notes on that casting, but Rogen didn’t take them.
“They asked if we could use Tim Cook instead, and we said no,” Rogen told Business Insider at the red carpet premiere for “The Studio” at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in March.
MacDailyNews Note: Sarandos appears in episode eight of “The Studio,” which began streaming on Wednesday on Apple TV+.
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the joke wouldn’t work with Tim Cook, because people don’t associate him as the head of “Apple media production,” they associate him as the CEO of Apple.
it would sound disingenuous, as if Apple obligated The Studio to shoehorn Tim Cook into a joke he wasn’t right for (what they tried to do).
the joke works with Ted Sarandos.
Seth Rogen is boring and extremely poor actor.
Rogen is an archetypal pothead loser joke. With all this money Apple could create an alternative to Hollywood funding ambitious young creators, instead they feed to bloated beast.