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MOST ACTORS AND directors let the anniversaries of their movies pass by without making any major acknowledgement of it to the public. Not Seth Rogen.
Last August, Seth Rogen shared a heap of weird trivia about Superbad on the film’s tenth anniversary. Among other things, we learned that the period blood scene had actually happened to one of Seth’s friends in real life.
Last night, Rogen celebrated ten years since the release of Pineapple Express by tweeting some similarly weird facts.
1. Pineapple Express was actually a completely fictional strain of weed, invented by Seth Rogen and co.
There was NO strain of weed called #PineappleExpress when we made the movie. We said “if one day, people are out there selling weed called Pineapple Express, it worked”.
3. Rolling cross joints is actually such a fine art that Seth and co-director Evan Goldberg were the only people on set who could actually do it.
In #PineappleExpress, me and my co-writer Evan had to roll all the cross joints needed to film (about 100) ourselves because nobody else on the crew could roll them properly.
4. Seth’s personal favourite Easter egg in the movie is the shoes that Matheson wore.
Of all the weird references in #PineappleExpress, my favorite is to the fact that Matheson is wearing “British Knights”, because when I was a kid I wore the fuck out of my BK’s.
5. While the film was being promoted, there was a billboard on Sunset Boulevard that was smoking. It was removed by the local fire department because too many people thought it was on fire.
We DID have a smoking billboard for #PineappleExpress that got shut down by the fire department because people keep thinking it was on fire. https://t.co/UslrDgNyuN
6. Unsurprisingly, Ford did not want to be associated with this stoner cult classic.
In #PineappleExpress, originally, Red killed Matheson with a Ford Fiesta, but Ford didn’t want their car involved in a movie murder so we had to change it to a Daewoo Lanos, which is ultimately much funnier I think.
The reason Saul wears a headband in #PineappleExpress is the result of another injury. There’s a shot (that’s in the movie) when we are running through the woods, Franco hits his head on a tree. He actually hit his head on a screw that was holding a pad in place and got stitches.
Throughout the fight scene in Red’s house in #PineappleExpress, I broke my finger and Danny McBride got his head cracked open when Franco hit him with the bong.
10. According to Judd Apatow, Bryan Cranston auditioned. If he had been successful in his audition, there’s a good chance that Breaking Bad would have never happened.
I’ve got one. Bryan Cranston auditioned. He may have even read at a table read and I said “I don’t think he seems scary enough to seem like a real drug dealer.” If he did PE maybe the Breaking Bad people would have said, “not him, he always plays drug dealers.” https://t.co/YqJE1pr2QH
In #PineappleExpress, Red refers to his ex wife having gotten out of jail recently. There’s a pic of Red and his ex wife, who was played by Stormy Daniels.
14. They loved Danny McBride so much they extended his character’s life.
In #PineappleExpress, Red was originally supposed to die the first time he was shot when he was tied up in his apartment, but we thought Danny Mcbride was so funny that we just kept bringing him back to life.
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Seth Rogen celebrated the 10th anniversary of Pineapple Express by sharing weird facts about the movie
MOST ACTORS AND directors let the anniversaries of their movies pass by without making any major acknowledgement of it to the public. Not Seth Rogen.
Last August, Seth Rogen shared a heap of weird trivia about Superbad on the film’s tenth anniversary. Among other things, we learned that the period blood scene had actually happened to one of Seth’s friends in real life.
Last night, Rogen celebrated ten years since the release of Pineapple Express by tweeting some similarly weird facts.
1. Pineapple Express was actually a completely fictional strain of weed, invented by Seth Rogen and co.
2. And they named it after a Hawaiian weather system.
There’s also a train at a Dole pineapple plantation with the same name.
3. Rolling cross joints is actually such a fine art that Seth and co-director Evan Goldberg were the only people on set who could actually do it.
4. Seth’s personal favourite Easter egg in the movie is the shoes that Matheson wore.
5. While the film was being promoted, there was a billboard on Sunset Boulevard that was smoking. It was removed by the local fire department because too many people thought it was on fire.
6. Unsurprisingly, Ford did not want to be associated with this stoner cult classic.
7. Seth Rogen did the vast majority of his own stunts.
8. As a result, there were plenty of injuries.
9. Even broken bones.
10. According to Judd Apatow, Bryan Cranston auditioned. If he had been successful in his audition, there’s a good chance that Breaking Bad would have never happened.
11. Kanye was at the premiere.
12. There was a tiny Stormy Daniels cameo.
13. James Franco and Seth Rogen were originally supposed to play the opposite roles.
14. They loved Danny McBride so much they extended his character’s life.
15. Finally, the song most people associate with the movie wasn’t actually even in the movie.
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