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 steadiness his cinephilia with the calls for of the job, the sequence 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 not too long ago canned predecessor, Ike Barinholtz as his dissolute colleague and finest pal, Kathryn Hahn because the lot’s aggressive advertising and marketing chief and Chase Sui Wonders as a newly minted member of the studio’s improvement brass.
Forward of the sequence’ March 26 premiere, the workforce behind the present stopped by the L.A. Occasions studio at SXSW on Saturday to debate how the ability dynamic between actors and executives has developed, what most people will get incorrect about studio chiefs and why “streamers are not the underdogs in today’s Hollywood.” Watch the total interview under.