The Studio is telling the real stories behind the glamorous facade of Hollywood, and the latest episode took the audience behind the scenes of what a glitzy awards show is really like.
The eighth episode of Seth Rogen’s hit Apple TV+ series aired on Wednesday, May 8, and saw Matt (Rogen), Sal (Ike Barinholtz) and Patty (Catherine O’Hara) attend the Golden Globes, where they had quite a few run-ins with A-listers — Sal most of all.
The episode saw Matt’s innate jealousy hit a new level after Sal ran into longtime friend Adam Scott before the ceremony began, and when Scott won an award, he thanked the studio exec in his speech — which prompted a hilarious domino effect that saw every single winner at the event thank Sal in their speech, too, starting with Quinta Brunson and followed by Jean Smart, who both make cameos.
Filming the raucous episode was just as fun behind the camera as it looked, Barinholtz tells PEOPLE.
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“The Golden Globes [episode] was really great,” the actor, 48, says. “Because we shot at the Beverly Hilton, and we’re shooting so much all day, but we would still break for an hour for lunch, and we would just be like, ‘Hey, there’s a restaurant up there. You guys want to go maybe European style, have a glass of wine at lunch?'”
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Seth Rogen as Matt Remick, Ike Barinholtz as Sal Saperstein and Adam Scott in ‘The Studio’
“And everyone who was there — Adam and Ramy [Youssef] and whoever was just shooting with us that day — would come up and we would just sit and have an Aperol Spritz perhaps,” Barinholtz recalls.
“Which is appropriate,” he continues. “You should have one drink when you’re shooting an episode about the Golden Globes, where everyone is drunk.”
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Ramy Youssef in ‘The Studio’
Along with cameos by Youssef, Brunson and Smart, Zoë Kravitz also stars as herself in the episode. Barinholtz says that “everyone” who cameoed on the star-studded season “brought it” — and that Martin Scorsese’s appearance in the pilot was definitely to thank for some of the other big names they secured.
“I think casting him helped a lot of people say yes to the show. That’s a very, very pinch me [moment],” the Running Point co-creator says of meeting and working with the famed director. “I mean, you don’t get more pinch me than Marty, who’s the best.”
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Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz and Zoe Kravitz in ‘The Studio’
Working with Scott, 52, was fun for Barinholtz, too, as he’s known the Severance star “for a long, long time.”
“He was nice enough, when Dave [Stassen] and I were — before we even sold a movie — he was nice enough to meet with us and read a script we wrote and have lunch with us. And I remember just thinking, ‘Oh, man. What a nice guy. He’s so cool.'”
“But he’s amazing and Severance is awesome, and he’s incredible in it,” Barinholtz raves of his friend both onscreen and off.
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New episodes of The Studio premiere Wednesdays on Apple TV+.
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