There are not a few actors who say that they never read the reviews of the movies and series in which they participate, but Seth Rogen is not one of them. In fact, the star of films like ‘Damned Neighbors’ or ‘Almost Impossible’ acknowledges that bad reviews have a devastating effect and that there are people who carry them with them throughout their lives.
“It’s bullshit“
The actor recently visited ‘The Diary of a CEO’ podcast and there the conversation centered at one point on bad reviews and the effect that has on those who receive them. According to Rogen, critics should rethink the things they get to write about certain titles:
I think if most critics knew how much it hurts the people who made the things they write about, they would rethink the way they write these things. It’s devastating. I know people who, honestly, have never recovered from it: a year, decades of being hurt by movie criticism. It’s very personal… It’s devastating when you’re told institutionally that your self-expression is bad, and that’s something that people carry with them, literally, their entire lives, and I understand why. It’s bullshit.
In his case, he especially remembered the cases of ‘The Green Hornet’ and ‘The Interview’, but Rogen is very clear that what happened with the second one hurt much more:”It seemed much more personal to me. In ‘The Green Hornet’ I felt as if I had been the victim of some great whim. It wasn’t so much a creative failure on our part as a conceptual failure. On ‘The Interview,’ People Treated Us Like We’d Failed Creatively And That Sucked“.
Rogen acknowledges that all premieres are very stressful and that in the past his way of dealing with bad reviews has been to eat a nice dinner or retire to his beach house. However, she has come to the conclusion that the best way to deal with bad reviews is to just keep working:
That’s another of the fun things about making movies… life goes on.” You can be making another movie while your current movie is thrashing which is fun. It’s bittersweet. You know things are going to be okay. You’re already working. If the fear is that the movie will flop and you won’t get rehired, you don’t have to worry, but sometimes it’s an emotional conundrum.
We can currently see Rogen in ‘The Fabelmans’ and soon hear him in ‘Super Mario Bros: The Movie’, where he lends his voice to the mythical donkey kong.