Jonah Hill's Superbad Character Was So 'Reprehensible' That Sony Insisted He Not Touch a PlayStation During Video Game Scene, Seth Rogan Reveals

No video games for you! Superbad co-writer Seth Rogen has revealed that Sony recovered Jonah Hill's quality truthful "reprehensible" that reps insisted helium enactment distant from a PlayStation during a video crippled country successful the now-beloved comedy.

“On Superbad, we were told that Jonah Hill’s character, Seth, was truthful reprehensible to the workplace that they were like, there’s a country wherever they’re playing video games and [Sony] was like, ‘Jonah can’t interaction a PlayStation,’ ” Rogen told Rotten Tomatoes successful a South By Southwest 2025 reddish carpet video.

“They were like, ‘We can’t person him interact with our products, due to the fact that it’s excessively vile a character.’ And I was like, ‘It’s based connected me, that’s precise insulting.’ But we accommodated them, ultimately.”

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Sony Pictures co-financed the film, truthful they had a batch of leverage implicit a fewer top-notch comics trying to marque a generational comedy. Ultimately, alternatively of Hill’s Seth keysmashing his controller and yelling astatine the TV surface erstwhile helium died in-game, Michael Cera’s quality Evan tin beryllium seen playing The Getaway: Black Monday connected PS2 successful that scene. But amusive fact: there’s really a spot of a gag with 1 of Cera’s lines here. He mentions utilizing an M16 battle firearm successful the crippled — but The Getaway: Black Monday, a British bull game, doesn’t adjacent see them successful the weapons arsenal. Go figure.

Sony wouldn't fto Jonah Hill's Superbad quality spell adjacent a PlayStation. Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images.

Rogen was astatine SXSW to beforehand his caller Apple TV+ bid The Studio, which had its satellite premiere astatine the festival conscionable days ago.

Superbad besides starred Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Emma Stone, alongside memorable cameos from Bill Hader and Rogen himself. Rogen co-wrote the publication with Evan Goldberg and Greg Mottola directed.

Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.