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Seth Rogen on Smoking Pot & Making Pottery During Quarantine

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Seth Rogen says quarantine is basically just his regular life, minus the parties.

Seth Rogen video-called into “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in April 2020 to talk about riding out the COVID-19 lockdown, and his take was blunt: he’s built for this. Between an “ungodly amount of weed,” a new pottery habit with his wife, and a birthday parade of honking cars, Rogen laid out exactly how he’s spending quarantine, and why he’s not exactly suffering.

• Rogen told Kimmel, “We are not all in this together, because this has not been that bad for me,” joking that he’s been “self-isolating since 2009.”
• He turned 38 on April 15 and marked it with a drive-by parade of friends waving from their cars for “15 to 25 seconds” at a time.
• Rogen and his wife have taken up making ceramics and pottery, and he praised California for classifying cannabis dispensaries as essential businesses.

Self-Isolating Since 2009

Kimmel opened by asking how Rogen was handling lockdown, and Rogen didn’t play along with the usual we’re-all-struggling-together framing. “We are not all in this together, because this has not been that bad for me,” he said, explaining that his day-to-day as a homebody with a home studio hasn’t changed much. He’s said before that his lifestyle, working from a house he rarely has to leave, already looked a lot like quarantine, and this interview was him owning that reality on camera rather than pretending otherwise.

The Weed and the Pottery

Asked how he’s filling the hours, Rogen didn’t dress it up. He’s been smoking a “truly ungodly amount of weed” and said he’s grateful dispensaries got tagged as essential services, “because for me it truly is essential.” It’s consistent with the persona he’s built since Pineapple Express, but he also gave Kimmel something less expected: he and his wife, Lauren Miller, have been spending their downtime making ceramics and pottery, a hands-on hobby that’s become their version of a lockdown project.

“All I want is to see everyone for 15 to 25 seconds… I don’t need to get close. I’m more than happy to go out, wave to my friends and speak to them for 15 seconds and everyone go on their merry way. Again, I’m really built for this.”

A Birthday Parade and Checking In on Canada

Rogen turned 38 on April 15, and instead of a party, friends organized a drive-by parade past his house, cars slowing down just long enough for a wave and a quick shout. He told Kimmel that brief, low-contact format suited him fine, calling himself “really built for this.” The conversation also drifted north, with Rogen updating Kimmel on his parents in Canada, including his mother, who’s been teaching yoga classes over video chat to stay connected to her students during the shutdown.

No Kids, and That Viral ‘Cats’ Tweetstorm

Rogen also pointed out one clear perk of quarantine life: no kids to homeschool or entertain. He and Kimmel joked about the difference between his empty-house lockdown and the chaos other parents were dealing with. Kimmel also brought up Rogen’s viral moment from March 2020, when he got extremely high and live-tweeted his first-ever viewing of Cats, a moment that had already made the rounds online well before this interview and gave the segment an easy, ready-made punchline to close on.

Rogen’s next project already on the books before lockdown, An American Pickle, had been slated for a theatrical run before the pandemic scrambled release plans, so for now the pottery wheel and the dispensary run are what’s actually occupying his schedule. If his self-isolating-since-2009 line holds up, he’ll probably still be the most relaxed guest Kimmel books all year.