AUSTIN, Texas — With a gap allusion to Robert Altman’s 1992 traditional “The Player,” Apple TV+’s new comedy “The Studio” tees up an age-old topic — how the Hollywood sausage is made — for the twenty first century.
Starring Seth Rogen as put-upon studio head Matt Remick, who tries to stability his cinephilia with the calls for of the job, the collection turns subjects like company mental property and meddling execs into excessive comedy (and excessive stress) conditions. “The Studio” additionally options Catherine O’Hara as Remick’s just lately canned predecessor, Ike Barinholtz as his dissolute colleague and greatest buddy, Kathryn Hahn because the lot’s aggressive advertising and marketing chief and Chase Sui Wonders as a newly minted member of the studio’s growth brass.
Forward of the collection’ March 26 premiere, the crew behind the present stopped by the L.A. Occasions studio at SXSW on Saturday to debate how the facility dynamic between actors and executives has developed, what most people will get fallacious about studio chiefs and why “streamers are not the underdogs in today’s Hollywood.” Watch the complete interview under.