Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen on playing ancestral homies

In “An American Pickle,” Seth Rogen plays Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling ditchdigger who flees his Eastern European shtetl in 1919 for a better life in America. At his new job in a Brooklyn, New York, pickle factory, he accidentally falls into a vat and is preserved for 100 years. When Herschel awakens a century later, he is perplexed by the present day and by a great-grandson, Ben (also played by Rogen), an aspiring internet entrepreneur who shares few of Herschel’s values. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/movies/seth-rogen-american-pickle.html