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class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eSsnKa"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp">At 13, <strong>Seth Rogen</strong> and <strong>Evan Goldberg</strong> didn’t nnect to the standard ’90s teen edi that were g out theaters. Instead, they were drawn to films like <em>Clerks, Swgers, Out of Sight, Pulp Fictn,</em> and <em>The Daytrippers.</em> So they started wrg their own movie: a edy about two kids tryg to fd alhol and have sex wh their high school csh before gog off to llege lled <em>Superbad.</em></p><p>More than a later, <em>Superbad</em> fally opened theaters. Immediately, the film was a h that tapulted s st—cludg <strong>Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Emma Stone, Christopher Mtz-Plasse, Bill Har,</strong> and <strong>Martha MacIsaac</strong>—to stardom. None of them imaged the impact the movie would have—except for Rogen and Goldberg, who never doubted that <em>Superbad</em> would be big.</p><p class="paywall">Fifteen years after the film’s 2007 release, you n still walk to Target and fd McLov T-shirts, and see datg app ers clare that they’re “DTF”—a phrase that was <a href=">ed</a> by Jonah Hill’s iends that he ed the film. Mostly, though, <em>Superbad</em> endur bee the film is as heartfelt as is rnchy, thanks to the bond between the fictnal Seth and Evan. As we watch the two bt iends reen toward an uncerta future, <em>Superbad</em> also asks all to reflect on one of the most important qutns a teenager n ask: “Where n I fd booze??”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">In honor of s 15th anniversary, we took a trip back to high school wh the st and crew of <em>Superbad.</em></p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="1lth"></div></div><p class="paywall"><strong>EVAN GOLDBERG (CO-SCREENWRITER/PRODUCER):</strong> Seth and I met Bar Mzvah class and went to the same high school. And there was this place [a vio store] that would give you seven movi for seven bucks for seven days, and we would always go there and get seven awful movi and watch them.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>SETH ROGEN (CO-SCREENWRITER/“OFFICER MICHAELS”):</strong> We’d pretty much get them based on the ver. You’d get mixed rults on that.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> One day we saw a movie that we genuely do not know the name of, that was so bad we were like, “We uld make a better movie than this!” And then we went upstairs, to my sister’s bedroom, where the puter was, and we opened Word—bee we didn’t know there were other optns—and we started wrg an awful first draft of <em>Superbad</em>.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> It was fundamentally about the same ia. Essentially there was a party and the guys were tryg to buy beer. It was spired largely jt by our sire to buy alhol at the time. That was very te. We liked gog to hoe parti. We had a ton of hoe parti at our high school for whatever reason. And always was a challenge to get booze.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> Our origal draft end wh them leavg the party, walkg down the alleyway, and then Seth’s character mak fun of Michael Cera’s mother havg nice breasts, and then he says, “Fuck you.” That was the end.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> I was dog stand-up at the time, and I would try out the bs om the movie. And we would jt see that the are funny ias.</p><p class="paywall"><em>Much of</em> Superbad <em>was lifted directly om Goldberg and Rogen’s own liv. They really did know a girl who got her perd while dancg; as teenagers, they wound up at an adult party where they watched people do e. They really filled lndry tergent bottl wh beer.</em> <a href="><em>There really is a Fogell</em></a><em>. Many of the people mentned throughout the film, such as Dan Remick and Mike Snir, are also actual people they knew.</em></p><p class="paywall"><em>When he was 16, Seth Rogen was st Judd Apatow’s cult seri</em> <a href=">Freaks and Geeks</a>. <em>After the show was unceremonly nceled 2000, Apatow st Rogen on</em> Unclared, <em>which was also unceremonly nceled after one season.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>JUDD APATOW (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER):</strong> I heard that Seth was wrg somethg when we did <em>Freaks and Geeks</em>, but he didn’t show to me at that time. Seth and Evan had started their script when they were 13 years old, and already had somethg s earlit form, which was credibly funny and origal. So we began to talk about if we uld get to the shape where someone would actually allow to make .</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="exthk"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>SHAUNA ROBERTSON (PRODUCER):</strong> We had been talkg about <em>Superbad</em> for years, and we had been tryg to get ma. We all knew that this was the script that had to get ma someday, somehow.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>GREG MOTTOLA (DIRECTOR):</strong> I thk was probably towards the end of <em>Unclared</em> that Judd told that he was gog to do a readg of Seth and Evan’s script. Seth read Seth and Jason Segal read Evan. I heard , and I thought <em>Wow. This is one of the funnit thgs I’ve ever heard</em>. It has an thenticy to that you don’t often get wh big teen edi. I was also aware of the fact that teen edi had kd of slowly morphed to PG-13, soft, brightly l, palatable edi.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> R-rated edi are so monplace now. So monplace that ’s on televisn. At the time, the ia of a big theatril edy that was very R-rated—pecially one about high school kids—was really unheard of. Even though <em>Amerin Pie</em> had e out. I thk ’s bee ours was jt <em>so</em> much different than <em>Amerin Pie</em>.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> We had seen a lot of teen movi. The clost one wh pre-teens was <em>Stand By Me</em>, where was crazy and outrageo and was funny, but was real boys on a real journey walkg down a real road.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> We like <em>Amerin Pie</em>. But I thk a lot of ways, <em>Superbad</em> was reactive to those typ of movi. In those movi, there’s no sense that anythg other than maybe raw sexual energy is what’s good and right. I thk <em>Superbad</em> is more about the guys that grew up beg exposed to that, not beg unfortable wh , and how they don’t ultimately subscribe to that mentaly.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> I kept enuragg Seth and Evan to ntue velopg the script. Over time, emotnal elements were add which ma much eper. It beme about iendship, and the panic of startg a new phase of your life whout your bt iend.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> I thk bee we were teenagers, we uld see that they were missg the mark. It was so tuive to what was real and what wasn’t, and how the tone uld really h home wh people bee we were really makg a movie that we wanted to see.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> At that time, there weren’t movi that starred high school kids that were that edgy. So when we tried to get people to take serly, you uld feel that they were ncerned about those issu.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Furnure Couch Michael Cera Jonah Hill Human Person Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg Pants and Clothg" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Wrer Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Wrer Evan Goldberg, on set of Superbad 2007. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Columbia Pictur/ Everett Collectn.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="i8ltj8"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> I was school Montreal, and Seth was down there dog <em>Unclared</em>. I would save up money lifeguardg and fly down, and we would pch to producers.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> At one pot, we add a producer to the team, bee I uldn’t seem to get anyone to greenlight the movie. And then a few months later, that person was named the head of Paramount Pictur. So we all thought, <em>Oh. We’re gog to get the greenlight now. Our producer is the head of the stud.</em> And then one of the first thgs he did as the head of Paramount was say that he would not make <em>Superbad</em>.</p><p class="paywall"><em>As they stggled to get the film ma, pchg to anyone wh money that would listen, Apatow’s profile was risg. He produced the hs</em> Anchorman <em>and</em> Tallaga Nights, <em>and was directg his own smash like</em> The 40-Year-Old Virg <em>and</em> Knocked Up. <em>Sudnly, a wdow was open.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> After <em>Tallaga Nights</em>, Amy Pasl was like, “I’ll make every edy that om the guys.” So while we were makg <em>Knocked Up</em>, <em>Superbad</em> got greenl and we began the stg procs.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> Judd asked me after the readg, “Would you ever nsir directg this?” I said, ‘Yeah, of urse!’ Then was a good three years before I heard about aga. Wh a few months of movg back to New York, Judd lled me and he said, “Remember <em>Superbad</em>? Want to direct ?’”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> He clearly unrstood this visceral level of, quote, unquote, realy that we wanted the movie to have. It closely rembl what we unrstand as the real world.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> Greg Mottola was lerally the first director I had ever met, bis Judd, and he was the first director I ever sat wh who was like, “I love your script. If you guys ever get this gog, nsir me.”</p><p class="paywall"><em>Wh the script at Sony, the search began for the perfect duo to play Seth and Evan.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> It was always a bate about when Seth would age out. And I thk after Seth playg an adult <em>40-Year-Old Virg</em> and then someone who was havg a pregnancy crisis when he was st <em>Knocked Up,</em> felt like might be weird for him to play a high school stunt.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> We didn’t know who we were gog to replace me wh, but there were a few years where we were tryg to sell the movie and I was jt gog to be the p. Then for Evan, Jay Bachel is the one who told me about Michael Cera. I had never even heard of him and he’s like, “There’s this guy, Michael Cera. You have to st him. He’s geni.”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MICHAEL CERA (“EVAN”):</strong> I remember that I went several tim, readg wh several different actors who were dng for the role of Seth, and jt feelg a ntual hopefulns that I was the nng.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="yx3xnd"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>JONAH HILL (“SETH”):</strong> We were makg <em>Knocked Up</em> and they uldn’t fd the lead, and I jt thought was a great part. I thought was brilliant.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> We all knew Jonah, and knew Jonah was great. But I got my head that we had to be reful to st people who felt young. I was like, ‘Let’s jt read people who are closer to the actual age,’ bee Jonah was his early 20s.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> Then the problem beme there didn’t seem to be anybody the world who was as funny as Michael.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> Jonah was like, “I should play Seth. I should play Seth. I should play Seth.” And we said no like, 100 tim. “You are too old lookg.” And he said, “No, you’re too old lookg. I’m not! I n do this wh makp and hair.”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> I said, “Go shave really well and put yourself on tape readg the two scen.” He lerally jt wrapped, went the trailer, rerd , then me back. And was immediately clear that he should’ve been st a long time ago, and was ridiculo that we ever thought there was an optn other than him.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> We took the tape om my trailer to Amy Pasl’s office and plugged to her televisn. And she was like, “Yeah. Cast Jonah.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><em>Wh Jonah Hill and Michael Cera attached, the search for actors to play their rpective love terts was on. Rogen—now playg Officer Michaels—also set out to fd the perfect partner crime to play Officer Slater. But no stg would create a more difficult obstacle than that of Fogell, a.k.a. McLov—Seth and Evan’s annoyg iend who, if played jt right, had the potential to steal the movie.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> The search for McLov was where we really started to go to a <em>Twilight Zone</em> hole of madns. It beme very evint that there were no actors who were right for the role.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> [Castg director] Allison Jon, who was credibly hard workg, was puttg up notic at high schools all over the Southern California area.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE (“MCLOVIN”):</strong> My buddi, who I was a drama class wh when I was my senr year of high school, heard of an open dn for this movie. We all dned. I was the only one who got a llback, which was a ltle weird. And I went a send time and read wh Greg the director, and then got a third llback and read wh Jonah and Mike.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>HILL:</strong> Chris was really, really amazg off the bat. And I thk he was really annoyg to me at that time.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> He played like he was clearly the olt guy the room and everyone else was a nerd and a loser. He was Dean Mart stead of Jerry Lewis.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> I was jt, like, a scrawny kid. I was super stoked to be there. I had Seth and everyone sign my script bee I didn’t thk I was gog to get the part.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="kofwv"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> In the dn, he was very tic and attacked Jonah and did improvs sultg Jonah.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> Jonah immediately hated him. He was like, “That was fuckg wh my rhythm. I uldn’t perform wh that guy.”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> Jonah said, “I don’t like that guy. I don’t want him dog .” And I said, “That’s exactly why we’re hirg him. It uldn’t be more perfect. The fact that bothers you is exactly what we want.”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iUnxYa llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Bill Har and Seth Rogen." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Bill Har and Seth Rogen.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred"> by Columbia Pictur/Courty Everett Collectn.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>MARTHA MACISAAC (“BECCA”):</strong> I went on tape for . I don’t even thk I read the script. Then a few weeks later, I got a ll that they were gog to fly me down to do a screen tt, after which I was like, <em>Oh. I better read </em>. It was like, <em>Oh my god! I have to say all those thgs. All right. Here we go.</em> It was the dnk scene the bedroom, which is all very different than what the origal script was. In the origal, some of was far ls PG, if that is imagable, than what end up the movie.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>EMMA STONE (“JULES”):</strong> I had dned for Allison Jon que a few tim. Then months went by, and I went, “Oh, God. I gus that was .” Then they said, “Come and dn wh Jonah.” At the end of the scene he went off script and started improvisg. And I was like, “Oh, my God. Okay.” We improvised back and forth for what felt like an hour and a half, but was probably five mut.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> Emma was someone who hadn’t done a movie before. I liked her om the first read. I thought, she’s got this great voice. She’s credibly funny, she’s really tertg, she’s betiful, but an tertg way. I was shocked that she hadn’t already been a bunch of movi bee she was so y.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>STONE:</strong> I feel like ’s a real ttament to the power of stg directors and all of the dns that you thk are failed dns and the parts you don’t get. Sometim someone remembers you, and asks you to e for somethg and chang your whole life.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> There was a ncern that she had the same lor hair as Martha MacIsaac’s. And I said, “Well, maybe uld be like red or somethg.” So we dyed her hair red, which I thk she had never done before. And sce then, she has cursed me bee now people love her wh red hair and she’s had to live wh that for a lot of her adult life.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>BILL HADER (“OFFICER SLATER”):</strong> I was <em>You, Me, and Dupree</em>. I had to shoot a uple of days Hawaii, and Seth Rogen was my scen wh me, and Evan Goldberg was there. My memory of is they told me that they had a script.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-7 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> It was jt one of those thgs where, talkg to him, I was like, “We would be funny together.” We have the same unrstandg of timg and tone and rhythm, we love all the same movi. We jt h off right away.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="k7aign"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>HADER:</strong> I met wh Judd Apatow and he said, “So Seth and Evan said they met you and they enjoyed meetg you. They wrote this movie lled <em>Superbad</em>, and there’s a part for a p that you’re gog to play.” I remember he didn’t ask if I would play . He said, “You’re gonna play this.”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> Me and Bill actually went on a police ri-along South Los Angel. And was tly one of the most terrifyg experienc of my life bee of the p. The p was the worst p on Earth. Or maybe an credibly average p. <em>[Lghs]</em> A lot of the attu hontly that we had the movie was based off of this guy. He didn’t seem to give a fuck about anythg. He was antagonizg people, botherg people. He saw as funny. Everythg we do the movie was wh the pabili of how this guy we went on a ri-along wh would potentially act.</p><p class="paywall"><em>Wh the st place—and the bizarre ri-alongs unrway—the movie that once seemed too wild and profane to be greenl fally went to productn.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> It was the bt experience ever possible. Every sgle one of on set was like, <em>This is the chance of a lifetime</em>.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>HILL:</strong> Evan had this apartment, and he had parti and stuff. We’d all hang out there. It was a really fun, youthful, llege-y type experience.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> I had to work wh an on-set teacher. So between tak, everyone would watch the footage and joke around, and I would have to peace out and go to algebra. So was a ltle ls of a hangout for me.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>STONE:</strong> I was a eply secure 17-year-old on Accutane, which n classilly make you pretty prsed. And I was kd of like, “Oh, God,” that headspace of a 17-year-old. But I have to say—and ’s not even somethg I really realized until recently—but that kd of team creat an environment where you’re walkg to a sort of fay un. And I didn’t know that movi were any different than that, bee was my first. It had this sort of “Wele to our club” feelg.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-8 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>MACISAAC:</strong> As a Canadian, I somehow got taken unr their Canadian wg. And we were all the same age. I don’t know. I jt felt, like, immediately part of their group.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> I remember the dynamic [wh Rogen and Har] really workg bee I was overwhelmed. It was my first movie, and I was nervo. And there is a nervo energy to Fogell’s character when he’s first wh the ps. He’s stg the back of this p r wh the two terrifyg policemen wh guns. So actually helped wh the energy.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> We were kd of left alone. We were jt makg , creatg stuff as we went, changg stuff, and no one was breathg down our neck.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="iiecdw"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> Seth and Evan had done such tailed, obssive work on the script over many years that by the time we got to the shoot, was almost like a play that had been tried out of town.</p><p class="paywall"><em>The fun wasn’t jt happeng off-mera. Each member of the st also looks back fondly on some of their favore scen.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>HILL:</strong> I remember the home ec scene was really early on at the high school. And that was really fun. I jt remember havg so much fun wh Emma.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>STONE:</strong> It was all about makg each other lgh, and who uld kd of one-up each other and say somethg that’s jt gog to make everybody break. Jonah was beyond sweet to me om the very begng. And he’s such a fun and lovg person to work wh.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>CERA:</strong> I rell that we did several different versns [of the song he sgs durg the party sequence]. One where I’m jt dancg, one where I’m sgg “The Thong Song,” and then this versn wh “The Ey.” I was personally very hopeful “The Thong Song” would make to the movie, but now feels unniably right that should be “The Ey.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-9 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>ROBERTSON:</strong> We jt asked people to e hang out. We’re like, “We n’t pay anyone, but you n e hang out wh .”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Jonah Hill Michael Cera Seth Rogen Human Person Shna Robertson Evan Goldberg and Clothg" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Wrer Seth Rogen (left), Michael Cera (send om left), wrer Evan Goldberg (back, center), Jonah Hill (ont), Roger Iwata (send om right), producer Shna Robertson (right), on set, 2007.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Columbia Pictur/Courty Everett Collectn.</span></div></figure><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> I remember was the first time I ever shot a gun, and we had to go to the shootg range to practice. It was sane. Shootg pistols—but then you’re at the shootg range, so ’s like, “Let’s get some bigger guns.”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>HADER:</strong> Then beme all about givg Chris Mtz-Plasse the biggt gun possible. People had to stand behd him bee the shotgun blast would knock him back really far.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="blcyh9"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> They gave me, like, a shotgun. And I weigh like, 105 pounds. I’m the size of the shotgun. And I’m holdg this thg and I shoot , and lnch my whole body back. I’m turng the gun, and everyone’s like, “Fuckg pot away, bro!”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>HADER:</strong> I’ll tell you the thg I didn’t enjoy dog: I didn’t enjoy spng that r around. We were hooked to this other r that was the <em>Fast and the Fur</em> movi or somethg. There were the giant pol. It was this school parkg lot Northridge and there were all the light pol everywhere. And every time, you thought you were gog to smash to one.</p><p class="paywall"><em>When thkg about the movie’s edgit moments, two sequenc e to md: The scene where Jonah’s character danc wh a girl and wds up wh a sta on his pants, and the famo penis drawg scene.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROBERTSON:</strong> We had great amounts of lengthy discsns about the perd-blood dancg leg scene. Bee once he’s got perd blood on the leg, we’re kd of backed to a rner, and he’s got to have that as his stume for the rt of the movie. So if don’t work, we’ve got to figure out somethg.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> When I first read that, I was like, <em>Oh. Is that offensive to women?</em> I really did thk about . I didn’t want to do somethg that crossed the wrong le. Seth and Evan reassured me that we’re fe. <em>[Lghs]</em></p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-10 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> It was one of those ias where we thought, <em>This is an all or nothg type of joke ia. It’s eher gog to be really funny and people are gog to get , or they’re gog to be horrified and ’s gog to sk the movie.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>HILL:</strong> I gotta give Seth and Evan and Mottola so much props, bee they locked themselv to that. They didn’t have another versn they shot of that. Like, the rt of the movie, I had that on my leg.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> We fely shot material so that if had to be cut out, there was a path to ed the movie whout . There would be the problem of the sta, which maybe we would try to rrect wh CGI, but back then the CGI was more expensive than the budget of the film.</p><p class="paywall"><em>Now, onto the penis drawgs.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> We need a reason for him to not like the Bec character. So that beme a long walk, but worth the walk.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> My brother was an artist when he was a kid, and he did all of the dick drawgs the movie. While he was studyg for law school, he drew them all.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> I remember when we were shootg the penis-drawg scen, we weren’t allowed to have the children see the penis drawgs. So we had to create the shots where we had a body double for the kid, surround by penis drawgs. And then we would jt shoot the closp and have them do all the reactns. And then we had to do reactns of the ltle kids to the penis drawgs, but they never knew what they were reactg to.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="oanh0b"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> When we were thkg about what n go, the edor said, “Well, the one thg that don’t move the story forward at all are the dick drawgs.” And I jt said, “Over my ad body. We’re not takg that out.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-11 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><em>Like most hard-R teen edi, there’s a lot of talk about sex </em> Superbad. <em>But while many teen edi show ialized sexual enunters,</em> Superbad <em>tak the oppose route—playg up s characters’ fumblg awkwardns, as Evan and Bec’s bedroom scene.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>MACISAAC:</strong> Towards the end of shootg, Jonah me to set, even though he wasn’t shootg, and he was like, “This is gonna be so funny!” I remember Michael’s mom took him to work that day. And was like, “She needs to leave immediately. Your mom n’t be here. She’s too kd. I n’t try to do that to you wh your mother lookg.” She left pretty quickly.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> I remember beg young and thkg was ol: “Oh, my god. I’m gonna shoot a sex scene? That’s crazy!” I had never really even kissed a girl at the time.<br/><br/><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> I thought, <em>The way I’m gog to do this is closps. So basilly the mera is her pot of view, then flips and the mera be his pot of view</em>. So that they would never have to be on top of each other very much. We’d do a wishot to get her to posn on top of him, but we wouldn’t spend an enormo amount of potentially illegal time wh both of them unfortable fakg sex.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> My mom had to be on set for the sex scene bee I was 17 years old. She had to e down, which was pretty unfortable. She was lovg up, though. She was havg the time of her life, watchg her son do that.</p><p class="paywall"><em>Wh the film the n, there was a lot of anticipatn among the st and crew. Would dienc go for ?</em></p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iUnxYa llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Jonah Hill and Michael Cera." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Jonah Hill and Michael Cera.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Columbia Pictur/Courty Everett Collectn.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> We screened for iends and fay—an early cut bee I like to thk I’m a b of a perfectnist. I’m not easily satisfied.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>HADER:</strong> I went wh Michael Ball, this wrer, and Edgar Wright, and we sat next to Emma Stone and her mom. We sat the very back and was a llege crowd. And jt blew the roof off the place.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>STONE:</strong> Everybody was jt dyg lghg, cludg . </p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-12 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> We showed the Valley, and I ved Cameron Crowe to the tt screeng, which felt perfect bee he was a person that we were all spired by. You know, everythg we had done had been fluenced by <em>Say Anythg</em> and <em>Fast Tim at Ridgemont High</em>—at least for me.<br/><br/><strong>HILL:</strong> He me up to me and Michael afterwards, and he looked like he jt saw a ghost or somethg. And he said, “That was sane.” We were so tripped out to meet Cameron Crowe.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="w9sys6"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>CERA:</strong> I thk the first time I ever saw was at a tt screeng that Bob Onkirk was attendg, and me and Jonah’s good iend Max Wkler was also at. I found almost impossible to foc on anythg other than what Bob was lghg at, and every now and then I’d hear Max’s lgh cuttg through the crowd. It jt felt really great that people were diggg .</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROBERTSON:</strong> We watched the stud watch for the first time. I kept thkg, “They’re watchg this big h. And when they know how ltle money they gave to make , they mt be so thrilled.” And I jt kept watchg their s get bigger and bigger.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> For a while, we weren’t trackg. We had a great trailer. But was lookg like wasn’t gog to open. And I remember jumpg on a ll wh Amy Pasl beggg her to throw more money to mercials, bee we all felt like when people disver this, ’s gog to take off. And she went for .</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> They did a ton of grassroots stuff. They sent Bill, Jonah, Evan, and Chris around the untry, showg at lleg. They did, like, a full b tour. Those guys were willg to do . They jt went om llege town to llege town and showed up all over the untry. I thk that was a big part of the word of mouth.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>CERA:</strong> We went on a natn-wi and then ternatnal tour promotg for about three months where felt like we were strapped to some sort of publicy rocket.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> They worked really hard dog a lot of screengs and panels. I thk at some pot, everyone realized that they had phed them too hard, bee they really ran out of gas.</p><p class="paywall"><em>By the time the film was released on Augt 17, 2007, there was absolutely no pg .</em> Superbad <em>proved every stud exec and producer who cled to climb aboard wrong. Agast a budget of $20 ln, the film wound up rakg over $170 ln at the box office. In the procs, beme a cultural phenomenon.</em></p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-13 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> I had full nfince that the movie was gonna do great. That’s what me, Judd, Seth, Greg, and Shna always talked about. “If we uld get this greenl and do the way we want, ’s gog to work.”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> I will say wh nfince we 100% took s succs for granted, the most leral sense. I was not surprised. I look back, and I marvel at my attu.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> I thk I was still surprised when the first weekend was as good as was.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MACISAAC:</strong> My first time seeg was at the premiere, and was a <em>huge</em> premiere. I had never seen anythg like that. My whole fay me down. So I thk I was stg bi my dad and my olr sister, jt absolutely horrified—but also blown away.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="d4p9t"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>CERA:</strong> Jonah and I were plastered on a full-buildg poster, which was shockg to see.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>HILL:</strong> None of seemed normal. It was weird. I was 22 or 23. But I thk you uld tell om the first time we screened that people were eakg out. It was excg, but I don’t thk I que unrstood what would be like.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> I remember when me out, Jam L. Brooks sent me a really kd note that said that he went to wh his son—who was high school—and a bunch of his iends. And felt like was the first time that they all realized that they loved each other. That was the bt pliment the film uld have received.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Seth Rogen" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Seth Rogen</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Columbia Pictur/Courty Everett Collectn.</span></div></figure><p class="paywall"><strong>STONE:</strong> I felt bad for my brother, bee [he] was high school on the football team. He was probably beg pletely harassed wh <em>Superbad</em> stuff.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-14 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>CERA:</strong> [I] fely began beg regnized about 10,000 tim more on the day me out than the day right before that.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> The day after me out, I was a nobody; 18 years old. I had never done anythg my life. And then the next day I go to a Hab rtrant, and then someone across the way go “MCLOVIN!” ont of, like, 40 people. Then I was like, “Oh, somethg is changg the atmosphere here.”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MACISAAC:</strong> A lot of people were shoutg, “I want a blowjay!!!” as you’re walkg down the street. It’s like, “Okay. That’s somethg you uld say to a person…” So that si of was always very strange to me.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> I remember the weekend after, gog to Chipotle. I got regnized, and a girl would climb over my iends to try and touch me. And I would n out of the Chipotle, and all of their iends would n after me. And I’d get the r and one of the guys put his fger through his pants and was like, “I got a boner! I got a boner!”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="m7mujd"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>HADER:</strong> The mute I walked outsi [the day after <em>Superbad</em> opened], this woman—this very New Yorker woman—jt walked by and went, “You are so fuckg ol.” And I was like, “Oh. Thank you.” And she was like “<em>Superbad</em>. I wish ps were like you.”</p><p class="paywall"><em>Jt bee a movie opens huge don’t mean will age well.</em> Superbad <em>did.</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> I thk ’s only the last few years that I’ve grasped, <em>We’re one of those high school movi that’s stood the tt of time</em>. You don’t know that that’s gog to happen until years and years and years go by. Now that years and years and years have gone by, me and Evan look at each other and we’re like, <em>We did </em>.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>HILL:</strong> It’s still this betiful thg. It’s so rad my nephews thk ’s awome that I’m <em>Superbad</em>. Adam Sandler told me I’m his dghter’s favore edian bee of <em>Superbad</em>.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-15 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>STONE:</strong> There’s somethg so special about movi that take place a day, like <em>Ferris Bueller</em>. The experienc of people kd of a prime of their life—a day of them realizg that they’re on the precipice of adulthood. And this is their last chance to really be a wild kid, their mds.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>CERA:</strong> It's about iendship and time pullg all different directns, which is maybe an evergreen emotnal experience.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>STONE:</strong> We’ve all had our Seth or our Evan, hopefully. And if you haven’t, you should go out and fd them. Bee they’re out there.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MOTTOLA:</strong> It’s fun to be a part of somethg that’s had a cultural life. And I have to pch myself sometim when I realize, <em>Oh, really has this outlastg power</em>.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MACISAAC:</strong> Our technology and stuff chang, but teenagers are generally the same. They’ve got a lot of the same motiv and same sir. And I thk havg e om the mouths of 16-year-olds—obvly got tweaked and changed over time, but the heart of that story is the relatnship wh those teenagers and what they’re gog through.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> I thk was when I started to hear McLov rap songs is when I was like, <em>Oh, wow. This is a cultural thg</em>. Thgs aren’t referenced rap songs unls they are a cultural thg. You start to see McLov T-shirts at fuckg Urban Outfters and stuff.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROBERTSON:</strong> I get all the lls when ’s fake ID McLov’s birthday. I get emails om all over: “It’s McLov’s birthday! Happy birthday!”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> Everyone thks that they’re the first one to thk of like, “Do you have the other ID?” And you n only fake lgh so many tim before you’re jt lyg to yourself.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-16 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall"><strong>STONE:</strong> I wonred, “Is Chris Mtz-Plasse gog to be lled McLov for the rt of his life?” I still wonr that.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>MINTZ-PLASSE:</strong> Young me would’ve been so annoyed wh all that. Bee there was a really good four-year perd where I had that screamed at me everywhere I went. And was pretty drag. Especially as a 20-year-old, who is tryg to figure out who the fuck I am. My bra is still velopg and tryg to figure out my reer path.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="g3289"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>HADER:</strong> I pick up my dghter om 6th gra. And I go, and I’m wag the r, and she’s talkg to a iend. And this iend is a 6th grar, and he’s got the T-shirt wh McLov’s fake ID on . She walks up and is like, “Oh, hey, Dad.” And he don’t regnize me at all. <em>[Lghs]</em></p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> What’s horrifyg is a ment I get a lot where ps e up to me and say, “I beme a p bee of <em>Superbad</em>.” That has been said to me on numero ocsns. And when they say that to me, I say, “That is fucked up. You did not unrstand the movie.”</p><p class="paywall"><strong>HILL:</strong> When I hear my dad and his iends talk about llege, I thk that’s how my kids are gonna hear me and Michael talk about makg <em>Superbad</em>. Like, “The good ol’ days. We were crazy! It was awome!” It really do feel like that.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>GOLDBERG:</strong> We are all still iends. Like anythg that’s good, stood the tt of time not jt the product, but the team.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>APATOW:</strong> It’s a great movie bee you n always tell young people, “Hey, Seth and Evan started wrg this movie when they were 13. It’s never too early to start tryg to bang out a script.” They always believed . And they never lost hope.</p><p class="paywall"><strong>ROGEN:</strong> It’s harr than ’s ever been for a movie to do this, to take s place culture. 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Catch up on the year’s bt movi, whether theaters or now streamg at home.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>David Canfield</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The Idaho Murrs, Part 1: How 4 College Kids Lived and Loved" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Style</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The Idaho Murrs, Part 1: How 4 College Kids Lived and Loved</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The btal murrs of four Idaho llege stunts shocked lns. Through social media posts, urt rerds, and other primary sourc, thor Kathleen Hale forensilly renstcts their liv before the crime, and the night they were killed.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Kathleen Hale</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Brad Pt and Angela Jolie’s War of the Rosé" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Brad Pt and Angela Jolie’s War of the Rosé</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Miraval was more than jt their fay home. 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class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-9" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Riley Keough on Growg Up Prley, Losg Lisa Marie, and Inherg Graceland</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k"><em>Daisy Jon & the 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Miller’s “Msiah” Delns: Insi The Flash Star’s Dark Spiral" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-10" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Ezra Miller’s “Msiah” Delns: Insi <em>The Flash</em> Star’s Dark Spiral</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ 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