Catherine O'Hara has power, Kathryn Hahn wants money: 'The Studio' team tells all at SXSW

AUSTIN, Texas — With an opening allusion to Robert Altman’s 1992 classical “The Player,” Apple TV+’s caller drama “The Studio” tees up an age-old taxable — however the Hollywood sausage is made — for the 21st century.

Starring Seth Rogen arsenic put-upon workplace caput Matt Remick, who tries to equilibrium his cinephilia with the demands of the job, the bid turns topics similar firm intelligence spot and meddling execs into precocious drama (and precocious stress) situations. “The Studio” besides features Catherine O’Hara arsenic Remick’s precocious canned predecessor, Ike Barinholtz arsenic his dissolute workfellow and champion friend, Kathryn Hahn arsenic the lot’s assertive selling main and Chase Sui Wonders arsenic a recently minted subordinate of the studio’s improvement brass.

Ahead of the series’ March 26 premiere, the squad down the amusement stopped by the L.A. Times workplace astatine SXSW connected Saturday to sermon however the powerfulness dynamic betwixt actors and executives has evolved, what the wide nationalist gets incorrect astir workplace chiefs and wherefore “streamers are not the underdogs successful today’s Hollywood.” Watch the afloat interrogation below.