Friday, May 2, 2014

Seth Rogen: older, wiser, just as stoned

He plays the sensible one in Bad Neighbours, battling against the party-crazed frat house next door. But that doesn't mean he's changed

Seth Rogen is reliving the ordeal of having to go torso to torso with the immaculately sculpted midsection of Zac Efron, his co-star in new "family v frat house" comedy, Bad Neighbours. "Really, no one but no one should have to stand shirtless next to a shirtless Zac Efron. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I mean, look at the guy: it's like gay scientists designed him in a lab."

Bad Neighbours pitches young married parents Rogen and Rose Byrne against a riotous college fraternity, led by Efron, which buys up the house next door and unleashes a 24/7 party apocalypse on them after they call the cops on one of their unhinged all-night bacchanals. It's a measure of how long Rogen has been around now that when his career took off in earnest seven years ago, he would have been playing the fratboy. "It was honestly fun to be the older guy in the movie," he says. "It was kind of the best of both worlds. I didn't have to play someone who was, like, in some drastically arrested-development situation, but at the same time I'm not merely the straight guy, I get to be ridiculous and funny too. Which is nice."

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/02/seth-rogen-bad-neighbours

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