Josh Duhamel was not aware that Seth Rogen’s studio would joke about it

When Josh Duhamel fired Apple TV + to broadcast The studioThe satirical comedy inside the basic ball of the Seth Rogen co-creator, he did not necessarily expect to be the target of some jokes in several episodes.

On a new episode of Michael Rosenbaum Inside you podcast, the Ransom Canyon The actor discussed all of his time in the Transformers Franchise and working with Michael Bay in his well-being companies. Towards the end of the sprawling interview, while Rosenbaum checked to see if he properly pronounced his last name, Duhamel stressed an example of what was not.

“There is a whole episode with me who is interpreted as Kool-Aid’s guy,” started the actor, referring to episode 7 of season 1, entitled “Casting”. In this document, the newly created CEO of Rogen Continental Studios is struggling to constitute a file of actors for a new Kool-Aid film, launching a dilemma of convoluted and hilarious work in which he and his team are so strongly invested in not relying on stereotypes that they do inadvertently.

“Yeah, someone watching him spoke about me,” Duhamel told Rosenbaum. “And I said to myself: ‘Yeah, it’s cool, I like Rogen and all those [guys]. But you might think that they would have called me and said as: “Hey, do you mind if we use your name and your resemblance for that?” “”

He continued: “Or at least,” How do you say your name? ” Because they badly pronounced. »»

When Marriage The actor said that the leaders of the show had pronounced him as “Do-Hah-Moulin” as opposed to “Duh-Mel”, Rosenbaum postulated that they probably “did this as a joke, however”, to which Duhamel replied: “They could have. Maybe”. He concluded: “I don’t care. I’m a little flattered. “

Recently renewed for a second season, the working comedy taking place in a faithful cinema company includes a Who’s Who of Rotation Cames, notably Martin Scorsese, Zoë Kravitz, Ron Howard, Adam Scott and many others.