Seth Rogen has been operating in writer/producer mode so consistently, and for so long at this point—most recently with The Studio, but also projects like Invincible, Sausage Party: Foodtopia, and more—that it can be easy to forget that Hollywood can just… cast him in things. Like, say, The Invite, the new film from recent The Studio guest star Olivia Wilde, who’s bringing Rogen in to appear in her film about a double date between married couples that apparently gets pretty weird.
This is per Variety, which reports that Rogen has joined the movie’s cast alongside Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, all of whom will appear with Wilde herself. The film is her third as a director, after the critically acclaimed comedy Booksmart, and the more contentious sci-fi drama Don’t Worry Darling. The Invite definitely sounds more like the latter than the former, focused as it is on “a couple [who] invites the neighbors over, igniting an evening full of unexpected twists and turns, revealing deeply repressed emotions and unexplored sexuality.” (The film is inspired by the 2020 Spanish comedy Sentimental, which has previously been remade in Italy, Germany, and France.)
Rogen most recently starred in a non-him production with a small voice role in Mufasa, reprising his role as Pumbaa from Disney’s CGI version of The Lion King. Cruz is currently set for an appearance in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s upcoming, extremely strange sounding The Bride!, while Norton last popped up in theaters with a starring role opposite Timothée Chalamet in last year’s A Complete Unknown. Wilde, for her part, hasn’t acted in anything (besides The Studio) since 2022, when she co-starred in Damien Chazelle’s infamous Babylon.
