Seth Rogen regrets a lot of those "homophobic" jokes from "Superbad"
In the nine years since "Superbad" hit theaters, actor and writer Seth Rogen has gained some perspective. Now, he admits in an interview with the Guardian, he realizes some of the jokes in the raunchy high school comedy were edging close to "blatantly homophobic."
"It's funny looking at some movies we've made in the last 10 years under the lenses of new eras, new social consciousness," Rogen said. "There's for sure some stuff in our earlier movies -- and even in our more recent movies -- where even like a year later you're like 'Eh, maybe that wasn't the greatest idea.'"
"There are probably some jokes in 'Superbad' that are bordering on blatantly homophobic at times," Rogen said. "They're all in the voice of high school kids, who do speak like that, but I think we'd also be silly not to acknowledge that we also were, to some degree, glamorizing that type of language in a lot of ways."