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Riley Utley

‘I Just Kept Saying Thank You.’ Seth Rogen On Filming Intimate Scenes With Penélope Cruz

From left to right: Penelope Cruz and Seth Rogen in The Invite. .

In Olivia Wilde’s film on the 2026 movie schedule, The Invite, there’s a lot of hilarious and direct talk about sex. The film sees two couples played by Seth Rogen and Wilde and Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton gather for a dinner party, and quickly the conversation gets intimate. Their actions do too, and while speaking about filming those moments in particular, Rogen shared that he just kept telling Cruz “thank you.”

This story came up after Ike Barinholtz – who is one of the guest hosts filling in for Jimmy Kimmel – asked Rogen if he was “at all worried Javier Bardem is going to kill [him]” while he was filming intimate scenes for The Invite with Penélope Cruz. Here’s what The Studio star had to say about that during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live:

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