When Josh Duhamel fired up Apple TV+ to stream The Studio, the inside-baseball satirical comedy from co-creator Seth Rogen, he wasn’t necessarily expecting to be the butt of a couple jokes several episodes in.
On a new episode of Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast, the Ransom Canyon actor discussed everything from his time in the Transformers franchise and working with Michael Bay to his wellness ventures. Toward the end of the sprawling interview, as Rosenbaum checked to see if he was pronouncing his last name correctly, Duhamel pointed out an example of when it distinctly wasn’t.
“There’s a whole episode with me being cast as the Kool-Aid Guy,” the actor began, referencing Episode 7 of Season 1, titled simply “Casting.” In it, Rogen’s newly minted Continental Studios CEO is struggling to put together a docket of actors for a new Kool-Aid movie, launching a convoluted and hilarious workplace dilemma in which he and his team are so heavily invested in not leaning into stereotypes that they inadvertently do so.
“Yeah, somebody who was watching it told me about it,” Duhamel told Rosenbaum. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, it’s cool, I love Rogen and all those [guys]. But you’d think they would have called me and said like, ‘Hey, do you mind if we use your name and likeness for this?’”
He continued, “Or at least, ‘How do you pronounce your name?’ Because they pronounced it wrong.”
When the Shotgun Wedding actor said the show’s leads pronounced it as “do-HAH-mill” as opposed to “DUH-mel,” Rosenbaum posited that they likely “did that as a joke, though,” to which Duhamel responded, “They might have. Maybe.” He concluded, “I don’t care. I’m kind of flattered by it.”
Recently renewed for a second season, the workplace comedy set at a fictitious storied moviemaking company features a who’s who of rotating cameos, including Martin Scorsese, Zoë Kravitz, Ron Howard, Adam Scott and many others.
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