This week marks the arrival of Sausage Party, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's R-rated cartoon about anthropomorphic foodstuffs that have tons of raunchy sex before getting murdered and eaten by humans. It's an immensely dumb (albeit funny) idea, but it took a lot to get it to the big screen.
In a new interview with Howard Stern, Rogen revealed that the biggest obstacle was appeasing censors. Sausage Party is, after all, a film that features a full-blown orgy between its characters.
"Our fear was that it would then create this big negotiation process where we ultimately had to butcher the fucking thing, you know?" Rogen said. "We probably added six things into the orgy that we were like, 'OK, these are like our sacrificial lambs.'"
Ultimately, it all came down to one character's pubes. "There is a pita bread and you see his ballsack in the orgy and it had hair on it," Rogen admitted. "And they asked us to remove the hair from the pita bread's ball sack. So we digitally shaved the pita bread's ballsack and removed the hair from it."
And that, quite literally, is a peek at how the sausage is made. Watch Seth Rogen discuss pita pubes with Howard Stern below.
Sausage Party opens on August 12.
In a new interview with Howard Stern, Rogen revealed that the biggest obstacle was appeasing censors. Sausage Party is, after all, a film that features a full-blown orgy between its characters.
"Our fear was that it would then create this big negotiation process where we ultimately had to butcher the fucking thing, you know?" Rogen said. "We probably added six things into the orgy that we were like, 'OK, these are like our sacrificial lambs.'"
Ultimately, it all came down to one character's pubes. "There is a pita bread and you see his ballsack in the orgy and it had hair on it," Rogen admitted. "And they asked us to remove the hair from the pita bread's ball sack. So we digitally shaved the pita bread's ballsack and removed the hair from it."
And that, quite literally, is a peek at how the sausage is made. Watch Seth Rogen discuss pita pubes with Howard Stern below.
Sausage Party opens on August 12.
