- Emma Watson was said to have left the set “This Is the End” after being uncomfortable with a scene.
- Rogen confirmed the rumor in an interview with GQ but said there were no hard feelings.
- In that scene Channing Tatum was playing a gimp on a leash.
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Seth Rogen has confirmed rumors that Emma Watson left the set of his 2013 apocalypse film “This Is the End” after refusing to shoot a very wild scene, but said there were no hard feelings after.
This scene was one of the most graphic images in the film, with Danny McBride as a cannibal who has Channing Tatum on a leash as his gimp.
The rumor, which was triggered by an unconfirmed account from more than the film’s set (and later cited by James Franco in the magazine Interview), suggests that Watson did not feel comfortable shooting the view and walk off.
Channing Tatum as a gimp in “This is the end.”
Sony pictures release
Speaking to British GQ for his May issue, Rogen responded to the interviewer raising the rumor, saying: “I mean, I don’t look back on that and think, ‘How do you do that?’ You know? I think sometimes when you read something, when it comes to life it doesn’t seem to be what you thought it was.
“But it wasn’t a terrible end to our relationship. She came back the next day to say goodbye. She helped inspire the film. There were no hard feelings and I couldn’t be. happier with the eventual release of the film. “
Rogen went on to say that Watson was probably right that the scene was too awful and that that affected the final cut: “Maybe she was right. Maybe it was more funny as we finished her to do. “
Insider has reached out to representatives for Watson for comment.
Watson’s longest-known cameo was in “This Is The End,” which made a point that it was literally with them. Other stars that appeared more clearly included Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, and Aziz Ansari.
Tatum himself had also just taken on a cameo role in the film as a gimp. He told Conan O’Brien in 2014 that he had received an email from Rogen late at night asking him to be in the film and “he must have been Ambien and drunk” when he agreed.
“That was an awful idea, maybe,” he said.