Who knew? Apparently, Seth Rogen has a sensitive side, and we don’t just mean his taint. In an interview with The Guardian, he acknowledged that some of his earlier movies had some homophobic content — particularly 2007’s Superbad.
“There’s for sure some stuff in our earlier movies — and even in our more recent movies — where even like a year later you’re like ‘Eh, maybe that wasn’t the greatest idea,’” he said. “There are probably some jokes in ‘Superbad’ that are bordering on blatantly homophobic at times … They’re all in the voice of high school kids, who do speak like that, but I think we’d also be silly not to acknowledge that we also were, to some degree, glamorizing that type of language in a lot of ways.”
What language in particular? Well, there’s an f-word in here:
So, yeah, less of that kind of thing would probably be nice. Seems like he’s gotten a little older and wiser since then, and discovered, miraculously, that it’s possible to write funny insults without also insulting wide swaths of your audience.
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It’s nice to hear that Rogen is sorry about the language that he put in films a few years ago. It means that we can return to fapping to pictures of him without feeling guilty.
His new movie is Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, and features Dave Franco playing a gay guy in what we can hope will be a somewhat more sensitive portrayal than just the throwing-around of random slurs.
And his film from a few months ago, The Night Before, has a gay joke involving sexting and a dick pic that actually works and isn’t homophobic at all.
Marriage equality is nice and all, but this is what it must feel like to be truly accepted. No more jokes at our expense from Seth Rogen. It’s all we could ever have hoped for.
batesnight
I didn’t even notice there were homophobic words in those movies, but I’m desensitized and not examining every shred of word that someone says in a movie to see if it’s personally or morally offensive to me. Love Seth!
Matthew Rettenmund
@batesnight: You would have been useless at Stonewall. More seriously, you have a brain disorder if you “didn’t even notice” the barrage of homophobic slurs in SUPERBAD. It was mile-a-minute. Even the star now points out the obvious, that while it was in some ways reflecting the way kids talk, it was also presenting it as okay and cool. Like in the ’80s flick TEEN WOLF, the “fag” scene—it tells the audience, “You definitely don’t want to be a fag.” If that isn’t offensive or at least annoying to any gay person, that gay person is bending over backward to avoid seeming to be too PC.
BigG
Seth is so adorable. Love him.
SportGuy
Who cares what some fat pasty guy says.
Brian
Jokes about male homosexuality are not necessarily homophobic. I honestly think that anybody who takes offense at everything is a really sad individual.
Hollywood does have a problem with male homosexuality. In fact, a huge problem. Male homosexuality destroys the Hollywood business model. That’s why it is so feared.
Ogre Magi
I prefer McLovin
ingyaom
What the hell happened to Seth Rogen? His body looks worse than Kim Kardashian’s.
martinbakman
He appeals to a wide audience. I’m just not a big fan.
Sweetie Pie
Seth Rogen is a hot, steamy, delectable bear….I would do him…
Sweetie Pie
@SportGuy: You do…otherwise why clicking on the link and writing a dumb, inane comment ?
joeyty
@Matthew Rettenmund: LOL. Matthew Rettenmund criticizing anybody for being deliberately blind? 52 percent of UK Muslims now admitting they want to see homosexuality made illegal, and Rettenmund STILL espouses bringing more of them into the U.S.
Brian
Hollywood is extremely homophobic. It’s because male homosexuality interferes with Hollywood’s business model.
Name me one Disney movie with a male same-sex relationship. I can’t think of one. Disney has failed us on this issue.
Brian
@Matthew Rettenmund: Matthew, you make a good point. These movies claim to be representing real life but in fact they are glamorizing and repeating bigotry and prejudice.
Brian
Another thing: have you noticed that there are no anti-Jewish slurs in movies? It seems the Jewish producers and script-writers and directors censor anti-Jewish slurs but not the anti-gay ones.
If including anti-gay slurs is OK according to these Jewish Hollywood people, why not also include anti-Jewish slurs too?
Eldred
@Matthew Rettenmund: Or, like he said he just didn’t notice, and he doesn’t have a brain disorder. It’s strange that you would attempt name calling while talking about being offended by words.
Not everybody needs a SAFE SPACE as you seem to. You should try coming to peace with that.
White_Bear77
Does anyone have any juicy pictures of Seth?