How Seth Rogen pulled double duty with ‘The Studio’ and ‘Platonic’

Seth Rogen doesn’t take his job lightly.

The star, 43, was so invested in both of his Apple TV+ shows that he pulled double duty while filming. 

Rogen currently stars as Matt Remick in the Emmy-nominated dark comedy, “The Studio,” and also portrays Will on the dramedy series, “Platonic.”

His “Platonic” co-star, Luke Macfarlane, revealed how the actor was able to pull it off.

“Going into season two, you know, Seth had just finished filming ‘The Studio,’” he exclusively told The Post. “So we were very curious what ‘The Studio’ was going to turn into. And now, of course, we know what ‘The Studio’ turned into.”

Macfarlane, 45, added, “It is this incredible, brilliant, beautiful show. That he was, by the way, working on while he was filming Season 1 of ‘Platonic.’ Which is also, just as an actor, an incredible sort of reminder that hard work can pay off.”

The Hallmark star reminisced about how Rogen would juggle both roles at the same time.

“He was literally finishing scenes on ‘Platonic’ and going in his trailer and typing away,” continued Macfarlane. “So it’s delightful to come back and do a second season of the show. I think we all had a tremendous amount of time. It also feels like a lot of people that enjoy working together, and getting to work together again.”

Looking back at filming the second season, one memory in particular has stuck with the “Bros” vet.

“Seth really respects what everyone does,” Macfarlane said. “You know, Seth did an amazing thing once, actually. Somebody on set who kind of shouldn’t have said this told me to do something.”

He explained, “I was wearing a lav, a microphone, and I brought my hand to my lav, and I covered the lav in the scene. And somebody said something to me like, ‘Oh, don’t do that with your hand, you’ll cover your lav.’”

Rogen made sure that was the end of stepping in where you shouldn’t.

“And Seth actually said to that person, ‘Don’t tell an actor what to do. That’s not your job,’” Macfarlane shared. “Just watching somebody look out for his fellow actors – that’s what he does.”

“He’s got integrity,” Macfarlane gushed. “He knows how to look out for his actors. He really cares about an actor feeling comfortable.”

Rogen also made sure to keep the laughs coming.

“Seth is very famous for a lot of things. I think he’s really famous for that laugh, you know?” Macfarlane mused. “And I will say, working with Seth, you always want to get him to do that laugh. It makes you very happy when you make Seth laugh. So I will say the most Seth Rogen thing you can get him to do is laugh.”

Rogen wasn’t the only one who hit Macfarlane’s funny bone.

“Rose makes me laugh a lot,” he dished about his on-screen wife. “I think we’re filming a scene where I was, like, popping in and out of a doorway, and of course, the timing was hilarious. So we were just making each other laugh because I felt like I kept on missing the entrance.”

“It’s something early in the season where I’m sort of like, you know, doing the sticking my head [in], and I just kept on sticking my head in at the wrong time. So that made us both laugh quite a bit.”

These days, the Canadian hunk is focused on bringing Season 2 to the masses. 

“Platonic” follows former best friends, Sylvia (Byrne) and Will (Rogen), who reconnect after a years-long rift.

The second season drops on Wednesday, August 6, with Macfarlane describing what fans are in store for.

“Friendship, chaos, and comedy,” he stated.

Macfarlane’s Charlie, meanwhile, is trying to navigate his partner’s reignited friendship.

“This second season is different for my character, because in the first season, my character is the rock,” he detailed. “This season, he’s definitely the character that is, oof, a little bit sort of lost. Lost in the weeds. So it was fun to kind of explore this other side of him where he’s a little bit more sort of floundering in the universe.”

But Macfarlane is happy to step back into Charlie’s shoes for such a hilarious and sweet series.

After all, he is “most comfortable [in] comedy.”

“I get to wear sort of the most normal clothes,” elaborated Macfarlane. “I like doing comedy. That’s what I feel the most comfortable in.”

Rogen is serving all sorts of comedy playing Remick – the newly appointed head of Continental Studios. He is juggling corporate demands, talent, and his own ambitions, all while trying to keep movies relevant.

In June, Rogen opened up about what he wanted to portray with the show, which many people in the industry have related to in a very real way. 

“I mean, I don’t know if our specific goal was to trigger a trauma in people,” he told The Playlist, “but it was meant to capture our own experiences with it as viscerally as possible. And that was a word we used a lot.”

“So yeah,” he went on. “I think the idea that people who have experienced similar things have a visceral reaction to it, I think it does mean that it is a good expression of our experience and what we were trying to put out there.”

Rogen noted: “But yeah, it’s based on a lot of traumatic things I’ve experienced, so…”