It's been almost 10 years since Seth Rogen's hit high school comedy Superbad was released and looking back during an interview with The Guardian to promote Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising he admitted some of Superbad's jokes were "blatantly homophobic." This wouldn't be the first time Rogen's jokes have landed him in hot water, he recently said he was contacted by Tom Cruise for making a joke about the Church of Scientology in his upcoming Preacher series.
Reflecting on Superbad, which he co-wrote and had a role in, Rogen said, "It's funny looking at some movies we've made in the last 10 years under the lenses of new eras, new social consciousness." He then added, "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.'" And after explaining that some jokes "don't age well" despite "seeming appropriate" at the time Rogen specifically singles out Superbad: "There are probably some jokes in Superbad that are bordering on blatantly homophobic at times."
"They're all in the voice of high school kids, who do speak like that," Rogen said about the film which he and Evan Goldberg wrote as teenagers, but he didn't justify the jokes adding, "[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."
Aside from Preacher airing later this month Rogen has the animated Sausage Party (getting rave reviews from its SXSW screening) on the way.
