Seth Rogen's Fake Weed Stunt: Fake, Sort Of!
The question that has kept an anxious nation on tenterhooks for the last two days—"Did stoner movie star Seth Rogen light up a real spliff on stage at the MTV Movie Awards last weekend?"—has finally been resolved. According to the AP, the stunt was a big fake; but they also say that Rogen and Pineapple Express costar James Franco weren't supposed to do it at all! Is anyone here telling the truth? Such a web of deception!
Before television viewers could get a closer look at what was real and what was not, the camera moved to a wide angle and stayed that way until Mr. Rogen and Mr. Franco left the stage, The Associated Press reported. It was an awkward moment that made some in the audience laugh. Backstage, Mr. Franco told The Associated Press that MTV had put them up to the joke — supplying the script as well as the fake pot and joint — and then had a last-second change of heart.
So it seems that there are three possibilities:
1. Franco is telling the truth here; MTV put them up to it, then had a change of heart, but Rogen did it anyhow.
2. MTV told Rogen and Franco to say that the network had a change of heart, as a way to make the stunt seem more edgy, but not too edgy.
3. It was truly an off-the-cuff display of weed smoking, and Franco was kidding when he told the AP it was the network's idea.
Watch the video here again and again, and decide for yourself. At least we know that they weren't smoking salvia
