In the movie Seth plays a normal twenty something guy who likes to smoke pot and lay around with his buddies. He has a plan to make a website with his friends but it’s not like they’re working 24/7 to try and make it happen. Pulling tubes and having fun is more what they’re about.

One night they decide to go to a club and he ends up pulling a girl way out of his league and she ends up getting pregnant. The rest of the film is what happens after that night…

To help promote the movie Seth and most of the cast recently held some press conferences and I’ll be posting all of them. I already posted the Judd Apatow one in case you missed it.

As always you can download the audio of the interview here. It’s an MP3 and easily put on a portable player like an iPod or a CD for listening in your car.

“Knocked Up” opens June 1^st and you’ll definitely want to check it out.  

How did it feel to play a Canadian Jew in the movie?

Seth Rogen: Well, having no real skills, I always try to play characters close to myself – I don’t know. I say ‘sorey’ instead of ‘sorry’ and Judd just got tired of editing around it, I think. We embraced it on this one. Yeah, as much as I’d like to not play a Jew, this was the had I was dealt, you know.

How was shooting the fake sex scenes with Katherine Heigl?

Seth Rogen: Yeah, it’s really kind of nerve wracking, you know. If I was 18 years old, I’d literally be as far as I’ve ever been with a girl. You’re essentially – you’re dry humping; I don’t know if you can say that, but I’ll say it. You’re dry humping a girl who you don’t know very well; and I was just afraid I was going to sweat on her. That was my major concern, that I was going to drip a big gob of sweat on her head. Its nerves – but luckily they’re comedic sex scenes, supposedly. So that kind of helps; it’s not like I’m supposed to be acting sexy. There’s lines like, ‘This is my new record’ in there; so that kind of alleviates some of the pressure that would be put on me to look attractive and sexy – which is nice.

Was Porky’s or any other sex comedy an influence on you when you were a kid?

Seth Rogen: Porky’s – you mean the highest grossing Canadian film of all time! Yes, that was – Porky’s was one of those films. I used to, when they play it in Canada, I would tape bits of it, the nude scenes and compile them. So I’ve seen the nine minutes of Porky’s where people are naked 1000 times over and over. The rest I’ve recently caught up on, but that introduced me to adulthood – Porky’s.

What about other sex comedies?

Seth Rogen: Bachelor Party was a movie I always liked; it’s pretty dirty for a Tom Hanks movie. There’s some bestiality jokes in there and stuff like that; that would always shock me. Kevin Smith was an inspiration language wise, I would say; his movies were the first that I saw that people were cursing up a storm and that was very amusing to me, so I think we took a nod from that, definitely when it comes to sexual language anyway. I don’t know, what other ones are good? Any suggestions.

Last American Virgin.

Seth Rogen: Last American Virgin; I haven’t seen that. I’m in, I haven’t seen it.

Is the general idea of this movie that any guy is redeemable?

Seth Rogen: I think almost any guy is redeemable, yeah - if you haven’t done anything truly terrible. More than anything, I think, our movies have a very simple message and that is try to be a good guy or girl, do the right thing – as Spike Lee said. That’s kind of all you need, I think. You can kind of have all the people say all the filthy, despicable things you want and have them do stupid things, but as long as you get that character’s trying to be a good person through it all, that’s kind of all I need to latch onto. It’s simple, but I think, emotionally speaking, it’s true to my experience with people. If you meet someone, everyone has their short comings, but as long as you see they’re trying to do well by others, then they’re very redeemable I find.

How outrageous and R-rated were you at age 13 when you were doing stand up in Vancouver?

Seth Rogen: I was not, I was clean; I didn’t work blue back then. Mostly because my mother came to a lot of my shows I think; I was just embarrassed. My life wasn’t that R-rated back then, I guess. I tried to be truthful to what was going on with my life and my friends and my experiences. Then, it was more about my grandparents and playing video games and my Bar Mitzvah and stuff like that. I hadn’t delved into the filthy world I now occupy.

Where was it where you first did your stand up?

Seth Rogen: At a lesbian bar in Vancouver called The Lotus. I thought it was ‘Ladies Night;’ I didn’t really get what was happening.

What were your responsibilities as executive producer on this movie and who was your character in Donnie Darko?

Seth Rogen: In Donnie Darko, I play Ricky – is my character’s name. It was kind of these two bullies in the movie, me and Alex Greenwald play them; we kind of torment Jake Gyllenhaal and Jenna Malone’s characters throughout. And then at the end, I throw Jenna Malone out in the road where she gets hit by a car; it’s kind of not that big of a role, it was my first movie. It was a great experience; I didn’t get it back then, and still don’t, but had a good time. What was your first part –

As executive producer -

Seth Rogen: My duties were being near Judd at all times, kind of; I told him, ‘I’m just going to give you my opinion until you tell me to shut up.’ And take what you have and take what you will and don’t take what you won’t. Basically, I’m there throughout all the casting and all the meetings with the studio about the script; I helped as much as I could with the writing process and the re-writing process. There weren’t many on this movie, but on days I wasn’t acting, I’d come to set and think of some jokes for some of the other scenes in the movie and the other characters. And in editing, I’m involved giving notes and going to the preview screenings and doing what I can – keeping off the couch.

Are you ready to be the lead in another romantic comedy?

Seth Rogen: We’ll see; I don’t know. It’s a strange concept, I guess that romances that people want to see me do; but I had fun, I’d keep doing it, sure!

Were you familiar with the site, Mr. Skin before making this movie?

Seth Rogen: No…(long pause). Yes, of course I was. Originally in the movie, there was no Mr. Skin; we actually – I can’t remember how it actually played out, but there was no – the movie originally took place in a universe that Mr. Skin did not exist, and it really started to amuse us that the notion that Mr. Skin did exist and we just hadn’t heard of it. It just made us laugh a lot as we were writing, so that’s where that kind of came from. Yeah, definitely, the idea for our webpage came from Mr. Skin.

How often are you writing?

Seth Rogen: How often am I writing? Pretty much when I’m not acting, which is often, I guess; or doing press. Yeah, as soon as I finish doing the Knocked Up promotion, I will start writng again. And between movies, that’s kind of my default mood is – sitting in my underwear writing; that’s where I want to be, if no one else expects me to be anywhere else.

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