Seth Rogen does need much acting skill for his new stoner movie "Pineapple Express" - he'll just fall back on his old self from his pot smoking days of youth. "I smoked a lot of weed growing up and that was kind of one of the funny things about this movie in that we had never really seen a movie that dealt with our kind of everyday weed experience," Seth says.
In "Pineapple Express," (named for a type of marijuana), Rogen plays Dale Denton, a process server who has to go on the run with his dealer (James Franco) when he witnesses a murder committed by other dealers.
Seth says his experience comes from his childhood in British Columbia, Canada, which is known for its prolific ganga crops.
"I'm from Vancouver, which I guess is research in and of itself," the 26-year-old said before the premiere of the movie at the Just For Laughs Festival.
Rogen, who co-wrote the film with Evan Goldberg and producer Judd Apatow, adds: "It was definitely based on a lot of experiences that we had and that's why we thought it could be a relatable movie. We've been through this. Everyone's been with someone who's bought weed or knows someone who's sold weed or gone and bought weed themselves."
"Even if you don't smoke weed, I think you could still appreciate the film because the fact of the matter is it's about buddies, it's not necessarily just about weed.
"I think that's the thing that separates this from a lot of other stoner films. Those other films tend to be just about marijuana, the marijuana culture, and this to me just seems like it's a component of the film but not necessarily what the film revolves around."
"Pineapple Express" opens on August 8.
"Hopefully if we can get two per cent of the people who saw the midnight show of "Batman" we'll be happy," he jokes.
