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- Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are all about reuniting with Zac Efron on their Apple TV+ show, Platonic
- The trio worked together on the 2014 comedy Neighbors
- Rogen and Byrne also opened about why they keep working together “over and over” again
Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne want an on-screen reunion with Zac Efron!
Rogen and Byrne, who starred alongside Efron in the 2014 comedy Neighbors, shared their thoughts on the possibility of working with him again on their Apple TV+ show Platonic.
“I don’t understand why that hasn’t come to fruition yet. Now, I have it in my head that’s what we need to do,” Byrne, 46, told The Hollywood Reporter while attending the Platonic season 2 premiere at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on July 30.
“We need to get Ike [Barinholtz, who also costarred in the film] and Zac in Platonic. That’d be great,” Rogen, 43, added.
Francesca Delbanco, who co-created Platonic alongside Neighbors director Nicholas Stoller, also chimed in, adding, “It would be amazing stunt casting if we get [another] season and if he would do it. It would be so funny.”
Efron, 37, flexed his comedic chops in the movie, in which he played the head of a fraternity that was determined to force their neighbors, Mac and Kelly Radner (Rogen and Byrne respectively), out of the neighborhood.
The film, which was made on an $18 million budget, grossed over $270 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo.
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Rogen and Byrne eventually went on to costar alongside each other in the first season of Platonic, in which they play co-dependent best friends Will and Sylvia. The pair were initially only slated to do a single season of the show in 2023 — which was intended to be an anthology series with a different cast each season — but they quickly realized they wanted to sign on for more.
“As we were shooting the first season, I was kind of pushing for [creators Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco] to brainstorm how it could continue and how to not replace us with other people, and thank god they listened,” Rogen told THR at the season 2 premiere.
“In film, chemistry is a mysterious thing,” Rogen later added when asked about his on-screen dynamic with Byrne.
“You never know who you’re going to have good chemistry with. There’s people who are great friends in real life that have terrible chemistry on screen. I’ve had great chemistry with people I don’t particularly like that much, and so I’m very lucky in this situation where I have chemistry with someone who I actually like. So I think that’s why we keep working together over and over again,” he continued.
For her part, Byrne said that Rogen makes working together “easy.”
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“Seth is funny on a molecular level, so you just sort of go in the magnetism of that, and we seem to have a really easy time together,” she told the outlet.
Platonic season 2 begins streaming on Apple TV+ on Aug. 6.
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