Some pester celebrities for selfies. The more eBay-minded ones bring merch for them to sign. But for Seth Rogen, when his fans catch a glimpse of him in the wild, the impulse is to grab a pipe and smoke up, man.
The writer, actor, producer, director, and cannabis entrepreneur made a recent appearance with Ben Stiller for a live taping of Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Both gents took a victory lap for the (checks notes) nine billion Emmys their respective shows The Studio and Severance were nominated for this year before Horowitz asked them what movie quote is most likely to get shouted across a Starbucks when spotted in public.
The Pineapple Express star confessed it isn’t so much a line he hears as it is a request to get high.
“People just wanna smoke weed with me,” he chuckled, before adding that he’s pretty okay with the request.
“If it seems like it’ll really be special for the person, sometimes I will,” he said.
Horowitz, understandably flummoxed, pressed further, asking if fans make this request right there on the street.
“Yeah,” he responded. “I’ve had moments where I’m like, ‘This is a big moment for this person. Least I could do is take a couple hits with them.'”
One assumes this in an area where outdoor consumption of the Devil’s Crabgrass is legal, or at least decriminalized. (For example: all of Brooklyn, N.Y., which stinks worse than Laser Floyd these days.) According to the cannabis advocacy group NORML, over 600 Americans are arrested daily for marijuana. (This is your cue to say “heavy, man.”)
In 2019, the Vancouver-born Rogen founded Houseplant, a weed accessory company for tokers of discernment. It includes the “By Seth” line of ashtrays that the Emmy and Golden Globe nominee sculpted himself. (Imagine owning a martini glass designed by Dean Martin, or a beef jerky personally dehydrated by John Wayne! What a time this is!) One can also buy vinyl mixes of music aligned with different strains of grass. “Low-key songs for indica,” one such collection boasts — a phrase that, if it means anything to you, probably means you forgot where you put your keys.
Anyhow, Ben Stiller’s fans are a little less intrusive. They mostly just shout “Focker!” at him, or sometimes ask him to do the “Blue Steel” look from Zoolander.
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“I’m pretty easy on Blue Steel,” Stiller said about the look his character Derek Zoolander perfected, which involves sucking in your cheeks, puckering your lips, and looking directly at the camera.
Stiller added that “if somebody, like, says, ‘Hey, do a picture, do a Blue Steel,’ I will.”
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