How Seth Rogen pulled double duty with The Studio and Platonic: Hard work pays off

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 2, 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 wha...