Seth Rogen Is Worried He'd Break Steven Spielberg's Brain With Weed

Kimmel, hosting the Academy Awards in March, sent a few drug related zingers toward Rogen and Spielberg, who were seated with each other. "Seth, what are you on now?" the late night host asked. A few moments later, he joked that Spielberg's "E.T." could only have been made under the influence. "You mean to tell me you were sober when you made a movie about an alien who eats Reese's Pieces all day and can't remember how to phone home? You were high as a bike when you made that movie."

Rogen has been caught red handed (or, more accurately, green handed) by Spielberg in the past. In 2018, the "Knocked Up" star recalled to Kimmel that the director happened upon him at an Oscar party, right after Rogen had sparked a joint. "I was like, 'Do I stop or do I just hold it?' That's weird," Rogen told the late night host (via Page Six). 

At the time, Rogen thought the encounter had lessened him in Spielberg's eyes. But only a few years later, he received a call from the "Jaws" director, who wanted him to star in the most personal film of Spielberg's career. As Rogen noted at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Fabelmans," he'd first mistakenly assumed Spielberg was calling to complain about a joke Rogen had made. Instead, he was calling to offer him the role of a lifetime.