Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig and Sam Richardson sat down with CinemaBlend’s Jeff McCobb to talk about their new animated Amazon Prime series, “Sausage Party: Foodtopia.” This adult-themed conversation addresses important topics like Eddie Murphy’s advice for Seth Rogen, Edward Norton playing a Jewish bagel, and of course, what it’s like to record voice work for Sausage Party’s infamous food orgies.
00:00A comedian taking their own laugh away is like, that's like the plot of The Little Mermaid or something like that.
00:07That is like a Pixar movie.
00:11Welcome to Foodtopia!
00:16I love this show. Thank you.
00:18I never thought I'd say this, but like, I think it should be required viewing to vote.
00:23That's why we made it.
00:25Perfect timing.
00:26Politics boiled down with like, food, you know what I mean?
00:30It makes it all understandable.
00:32Is that the agenda? This is the liberal agenda, right?
00:36It is a hedonistic agenda.
00:41If anything.
00:42That really hits my lifestyle.
00:45Dude, I gotta say, I was just talking to Eddie Murphy about you.
00:48Really?
00:49Yeah.
00:50That's the craziest thing ever.
00:51I assume he hates me?
00:52That's it.
00:53He was talking about how he had to ditch his iconic laugh because he was sick of people talking about it.
01:01Oh, that's right.
01:02And I said, well, I'm about to talk to Seth Rogen.
01:03Should he ditch it?
01:05Should I ditch it?
01:06He looked in the camera and he said,
01:07Seth, you've done everything right.
01:09And keep doing that laugh.
01:11Look how far it's gotten you.
01:13Wow, look at that.
01:14Any fucking Murphy.
01:16That's crazy.
01:17Look at that.
01:18He still did the laugh though, didn't he?
01:20No, he ditched it.
01:21It's gone.
01:24Did he only do it in the first Beverly Hills conference?
01:26I think it was the first two.
01:28In Golden Child.
01:29He's doing that shit in Golden Child.
01:30Definitely Golden Child.
01:31For real?
01:32But then he stopped doing it?
01:33He intentionally stopped doing it and then he went on this tangent about how difficult it was as a human being to take this natural element of you and then like suppress it.
01:41A comedian taking their own laugh away is like, that's like the plot of The Little Mermaid or something.
01:48That is like a Pixar movie where you're having it.
01:52That is really upsetting.
01:54Oh my goodness.
01:56No way.
01:57Well, that's amazing.
01:58And the fact that he knows who I am is incredible.
02:01And you know, it sounds like you never even considered ditching yours, which is good.
02:04No, I wish I could.
02:06No, don't do that.
02:07Never do.
02:08Never do.
02:09I don't want to like ask about food sex because everyone's gonna talk about food sex, but you can't not talk about it.
02:14We love it.
02:15Yeah.
02:16We know what we saw.
02:17The reason for the season.
02:18I'm wondering, does the food that you play dictate your moans in any way?
02:23That's what I was curious about.
02:24That's interesting.
02:25Wait, you mean like the way they moan in the show?
02:28Because you guys are making so many sex noises.
02:30Do you ever go like, okay, how would a hot dog bun enjoy this?
02:35I'll tell you what.
02:36In my first day of recording, like doing any sex noises, I was like, you guys are hearing my real sex noises.
02:43I'm like, oh, that's real, that's real.
02:48Sorry guys.
02:49That's a real one.
02:50That's a real one.
02:51So I think, I think mine are universal.
02:55Yeah.
02:56I'd give them the real ones.
02:57Yeah.
02:58They're real.
02:59I feel like Brenda's are a little more, uh, sing-songy than mine.
03:02Cartoonish.
03:03They're all sing-songy.
03:04Ah!
03:05They do have a-
03:08Yeah.
03:09Yeah.
03:10Yeah.
03:11Yeah.
03:12Now that I know that's real, I feel like I know you all a lot.
03:14Yeah.
03:15Oh yeah.
03:16It's gotten really intimate.
03:17Uh, Edward Norton, a lot of heavy lifting on his part.
03:21You know what I mean?
03:22I love that like the three time like Oscar nominated actor is the only one whose voice you can't recognize.
03:28Yeah.
03:29You know?
03:30A cucumber, a tomato, and a Kalamata olive walk into a salad bar.
03:34He, he really, I've known Edward a long time.
03:40And the fact that this is a thing he's decided to dedicate so much of his time and energy to
03:45is a confounding choice on many levels.
03:49But, yes, he plays several characters on the show.
03:52Each one completely unrecognizable.
03:54Many with himself.
03:55There are many scenes where he is completely with himself.
03:58But he probably doesn't get the opportunity to show something.
04:01No, do something so weird.
04:02He's got that funny side.
04:03Yes.
04:04He's sort of like the Hank Azaria of the show.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Like, he does a lot of random voice.
04:08And he loves it.
04:09And, and, and he really enjoys doing it.
04:11And he is very funny.
04:12And, and yeah, but like, I am constantly amazed and confused that he's decided to do it.
04:18But I'm, I'm happy he, I'm happy he does.
04:21You're the one that finally gave Edward Norton his dream gig.
04:24That was it.
04:25I think we were.
04:26And as big as, playing a Jewish bagel.
04:28Yeah.
04:29I was Googling, is Edward Norton Jewish?
04:32Oh no, he's not.
04:33We've granted him, uh, we like, we like knighted him the ability to do those jokes.
04:38So, him and, him and John Mulaney get the free pass then.
04:43I didn't knight him.
04:47Maybe Kroll did.
04:50It's like being deputized.
04:55Deputized.
04:57Damn.
04:58Yeah.
04:59Call Me By Your Name is one of my favorite movies.
05:02And so, I'm so upset that every time I hear this Sufjan Stevens song, I'm not going to be heartbroken anymore.
05:07I'm going to think of animated Will Forte eating a foot.
05:10Yes.
05:11And that was actually a very hard song to clear.
05:13Uh, be, and we had to go to Luca Guadagnino and Sufjan Stevens both to personally sign off.
05:21Wow.
05:22On the scene.
05:23And the letter.
05:24You had to tell them what it was?
05:26Yes.
05:27The letter.
05:28Yes.
05:29And it's like you find yourself, and I like love these artists.
05:31Yeah.
05:32Like you need to find yourself in a situation where you're explaining like, so we love your
05:36films.
05:37How do you like that?
05:38Like, so the joke is that he's eating a foot, and he's crying, and it's the same shot,
05:41he's calling by your name, and the credits are rolling, and, and we just, and, and yeah,
05:46it's like, uh, it's not easy to get those people to sign off and that stuff, but, but it,
05:51oh, they have a better sense of humor than you would think.
05:53They believed in you.
05:54They believed in the vision, dude.
05:55Yeah.
05:56They did.
05:57Well, this whole show's a community service, so thank you very much.
