Don’t Put In The Newspaper That Pharrell Got Frustrated

The Invite, the new tense dinner party comedy directed by Olivia Wilde based on a script by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones, was a Sundance hit and has been earning rave reviews. We mentioned it before because Dev Hynes composed the score, and now there's another music angle.

Wilde stars in the movie alongside Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penelope Cruz, and the cast have been making the promo rounds ahead of the movie's release next week. In a new segment for Entertainment Weekly, Rogen tells Wilde about an amusing interaction he had with Pharrell Williams.

Six years ago, while promoting the live-action Lion King movie, Rogen told interviewers that he was the worst singer in the cast and required some coaching. "Pharrell was maybe, like, overdoing it a bit," Rogen told Seth Meyers, saying he'd rather have learned to sing from a more average singer. (For what it's worth, although I love Pharrell's singing voice, I'm not sure I'd describe his vocals as conventionally good.)

Fast forward to the following Rogen anecdote from the EW video:

I was at a dinner, and I had made the Lion King movie, and I sing in the movie. And I had been doing interviews, and I had been talking about how Pharrell Williams got really frustrated with my singing. And then I was at a dinner, and Pharrell was there, and he was like, "Hey, I don't like how you suggest that I got frustrated with your singing." And I was like, "You did." And he's like, "I don't like you suggesting that I feel frustration." And I'm like, "You're feeling it right now, Pharrell. It's happening. It's happening at this dinner."

Watch Rogen relate this story below.

Rogen also told a story about Sean Combs inviting him on a hot air balloon ride when they encountered each other at the French Laundry in Napa Valley. Rogen is happy to report that he declined the offer. "The last thing I need in the world is a photo of me on a hot air balloon alone with Puff Daddy, waving and smiling and holding glasses of rosé