Trump on Monday defended his administration’s efforts to reform the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying the agency was “set up to destroy people.”
though, prompted them to give the series a more hopeful spin. But they were never short on fodder.Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, co-creators of the Apple TV+ series “The Studio,” pose on Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, co-creators of the Apple TV+ series “The Studio,” pose on Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)“Most of it is very directly from our lives,” Goldberg says.“As soon as we thought of it, we thought of a hundred episode ideas,” adds Rogen.
That includes one episode where Remick joins a date at a hospital fundraiser attended by doctors. That came from Rogen’s own experience attending galas for the Alzheimer’s disease charity he runs with his wife, Lauren Miller.“I find myself at a lot of medical galas and at a lot of tables with doctors who save people’s lives. And they seem to take particular joy in diminishing what I do for a living,” Rogen says laughing.
Rebecca Hall and Seth Rogen in a scene from “The Studio.” (Apple TV+ via AP)
Rebecca Hall and Seth Rogen in a scene from “The Studio.” (Apple TV+ via AP)“We’re going to be back in this situation of constant turnover,” said Mark Lauritsen, who runs the meatpacking division for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of Panhandle workers. “That’s assuming you have labor to replace the labor we’re losing.”
Nearly half of workers in the meatpacking industry are thought to be foreign-born. Immigrants have long found work in slaughterhouses, back to at least the late 1800s when multitudes of Europeans — Lithuanians, Sicilians, Russian Jews and others — filled Chicago’s Packingtown neighborhood.The Panhandle plants were originally dominated by Mexicans and Central Americans. They gave way to waves of people fleeing poverty and violence around the world, from
Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)