The fact that like the ‘how you know you’re gay’ scene is in the actual theatrical release of the movie is completely hilarious to me and Paul Rudd. Especially because it’s like the dumbest idea in the world that we just came up with on set that had nothing to do with anything, and it actually was in the movie. People actually liked it. It’s like, ‘Wow, that is very unexpected.’ It’s like embarrassing almost!”
Seth Rogen on Doing the DVD Commentary with the Cast and Writer/Director Judd Apatow: “You’re all like in a room watching the movie and you just talk into microphones in front of you. It’s exactly like that. You’re all just kind of like behind a table with the movie on a screen and you just talk. We contain very little actual technical information on the commentary. It’s mostly just us telling embarrassing stories about each other, which I find entertaining.”
Seth Rogen on Filming Stuff Specifically for the DVD: “I would say hours of actual filming time, hours and hours and hours of stuff. It’s funny. It’s kind of become this great excuse to shoot stuff that seems way too weird for the norm. We were just kind of like, ‘Yeah, we’ll put it in the DVD.’ ‘That’s too dirty. We’ll put it on the DVD.’ ‘This has nothing to do with it. We’ll put it on the DVD.’ Almost every day on set we would say, ‘Why would you say that? Oh, we’ll put it on the DVD.’ ‘Why are we shooting this? Maybe it will be funny on the DVD.’ So it’s all on there! (Laughing) Now it’s scary because we get to see what’s on the DVD.
I’m shocked at what actually made it into the movie. If you could imagine there’s dirtier stuff, then you’re in for something because there actually is! There’s a lot of stuff that we couldn’t actually say. It’s more just stuff you don’t want to hear in a room full of other people, but for some reason it’s a lot easier to take alone in your living room.”
Speaking of What Ends Up on the DVD: Because there was a lot of improv on the set of “The 40 Year Old Virgin,” and because they knew a lot of what they were filming was just for fun and not meant to be in the film, the actors didn’t really censor their comedy. One scene in particular features a couple of the guys discussing Matt Damon and let’s just say it might not be the type of thing Damon wants to watch, unless he has a really good sense of humor.
“It’s very funny when that makes it into the DVD. On the set with Judd, it’s such like a small little bubble just of hanging out because everyone knows each other and feels like friends. You kind of lose touch with the fact that it actually could end up somewhere one day and people might actually see it. So yeah, I hadn’t thought about that till just right now and that’s a little weird. Who knows if Matt Damon will ever actually see it? Maybe he will? I don’t know. Would he be offended by that? I could imagine he would be offended at that. So yeah, maybe that’s a little worry.
Actually, while we were doing the press for the movie ‘The Brothers Grimm’ was doing press in the same hotel. Paul Rudd got in an elevator and Matt Damon was in the elevator and he hadn’t seen the movie, obviously, at that point. They kind of know each other and he was like, ‘Hey man, what’s happening?,’ and he said he just felt terrible.”
Seth Rogen on R-Rated Comedies: Box office results seem to indicate there’s a big audience for good R-rated comedies. Rogen believes “The 40 Year Old Virgin” has helped make it easier for studios to give the go-ahead to adult-oriented comedies that don’t hold back.
Rogen said, “But it happens in waves. Now what will happen is like they’ll get maybe another year of a few R-rated comedies and then they’ll start doing all the terrible, bad knock-off, bad R-rated comedies. The equivalent to “Tomcats” or something like that. And then those will do really bad and then everyone will be like, ‘Oh, R-rated comedies don’t do good anymore,’ because of those bad knock-off ones. And then the exact same thing will happen in 10 years. Another movie will come up that is R-rated and it does really well and it will start all over again.”
