Pineapple Express has become something of a cult classic since it was unveiled 16 years ago.
The hilarious escapades of a man and his drug dealer on the run from sinister hitmen and a dirty cop was a big hit at the time and has continued to draw in new audiences. And it doesn’t hurt that writer and star Seth Rogen has shared some seriously juicy titbits from behind the scenes.
A few years back he marked the film’s 10th anniversary by taking to Twitter (now X) to reveal some PE secrets, leading to a fresh wave of interest. Penning a string of messages, he opened up about some of the on-set injuries and one rather surprising cameo.
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We remind ourselves of some of the stories he shared.
Grisly injuries
Seth and his co-stars – including James Franco as Saul Silver and Danny McBride as Red – came a cropper a few times during filming. The actor, who played Dale Denton in the movie, shared: “The reason Saul wears a headband in #PineappleExpress is the result of another injury. There’s a shot (that’s in the movie) when we are running through the woods, Franco hits his head on a tree. He actually hit his head on a screw that was holding a pad in place and got stitches.”
“Throughout the fight scene in Red’s house in #PineappleExpress, I broke my finger and Danny McBride got his head cracked open when Franco hit him with the bong,” he revealed in another post.
Stormy Daniels cameo
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Blink and you’ll miss it! But it turns out that adult film actress Stormy Daniels – who is best known for her alleged link to Donald Trump – had a bit of a cameo in the action comedy. Seth tweeted that she was shown in a photo in the film.
“In #PineappleExpress, Red refers to his ex wife having gotten out of jail recently,” he explained. “There’s a pic of Red and his ex wife, who was played by Stormy Daniels.”
Chair scene was a long one
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At least one scene might have been a bit gruelling for Danny, because its long set-up meant he just had to stay there until the director called “Cut.”
Seth shared: “While we were filming the scene where Red is taped to the chair in #PineappleExpress, Danny had to actually be taped in the chair all day and we couldn’t let him out because it took too long to put him back.”
Breaking Bad star tried out
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One interesting tale was that things could have been very different if casting went a different way. Producer Judd Apatow once shared that Bryan Cranston tried out for Pineapple Express but it was thought he wasn’t frightening enough to be a dealer.
He then went on to bag the showy role of teacher-turned-dealer Walter White in Breaking Bad, a show that was a massive hit and propelled him onto the A-list in Tinseltown.
“Bryan Cranston auditioned,” Judd tweeted. “He may have even read at a table read and I said ‘I don’t think he seems scary enough to seem like a real drug dealer.’ If he did PE maybe the Breaking Bad people would have said, ‘Not him, he always plays drug dealers’.”
Rolling joints
Seth revealed that rolling all the joints to be used as props in the film fell on him and Evan Goldberg, who wrote the caper with him. “In #PineappleExpress, me and my co-writer Evan had to roll all the cross joints needed to film (about 100) ourselves because nobody else on the crew could roll them properly,” he said.
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