HOLLYWOOD MOGUL OF THE YEAR

TWO DAYS AGO, Seth Rogen won so many Emmys that today his wrists are actually a little sore.

- BY ZACH BARON

vintage jacket from Raggedy Threads vintage shirt and jeans from Gator's Vintage, eyewear (throughout) Jacques Marie Mage vintage ring (on left middle finger) from FD Gallery ring (on left ring finger, throughout), his own vintage rings (on left and right pinkie, throughout) from Foundwell

This is not a joke: He's flexing his hands by the back entrance of the Chateau Marmont and pointing out random bruises all those statuettes left on his arms. The final tally was four for Rogen, for acting in, writing, producing, and creating The Studio, which ties an individual record, and 13 for the show itself, which breaks a record for most-awarded comedy series. How do you feel right now? I ask him. “Crushing pressure” is his answer. He says he was able to enjoy the feeling of winning for about 24 hours. Then: pain. “I’m not surprised at all,” he says. “I was waiting for it.” The Studio, about a movie-studio head, played by Rogen, and his attempts to navigate an increasingly ridiculous and paranoid industry, is many things—a Hollywood satire, a workplace comedy, a filmmaking showcase—but it is, at root, about what happens to creative people with good intentions when they run headlong into the business of making what they make. Rogen, who has never had a job outside of show business, knows about this collision intimately. It is a bunch of trophies; it’s overwhelming anxiety; it’s about how the trophies lead to anxiety and the anxiety—if you're lucky—leads back to the trophies.

GQ: The Studio is obviously a very personal show, but it's not always obvious to me where you are in it.