With guest stars likeMartin Scorsese,Ron HowardandOlivia Wilde,Seth Rogens new series makes use of every cameo.

None of them could do it when we needed them.

So we literally didnt shoot the episode.

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For Rogen, the part wouldnt have worked with anyone else.

Theres him and no one else, explained Rogen.

We needed the director of a horror franchise that is replicable in another, shittier way.

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And we were like, who doesSmile?

We thought,M3GANmaybe, but its not quite the same thing.

What we liked aboutSmileis that he kept doing them.

If Parker Finn had said no, I dont know what we would have done.