seth rogenSeth Rogen has said it was great fun reunited with James Franco almost a decade after they first worked together for their new film Pineapple Express.

The men met on the set of cult dramedy Freaks and Geeks in 1999 and Seth explained recently: “Me and James always really got along well, and I always thought he was really funny.

“I was shocked that after Freaks and Geeks, he took this more dramatic direction career wise. We lost touch for a few years.

“I always assumed he was really happy making Tristan and Isolde, Annapolis is another one… When I ran into him, he was like ‘I don’t like any of these movies!’ and he expressed that he kind of wanted to work with us again.”

But it didn’t work out quite as Seth had planned: “We sent him the script, and we wanted him to play Dale, the role I ultimately played, because we had written his role for me.

“When he read it, he said something to the effect of ‘I like it but I want to play the other guy.’ And I thought ‘damn, he’s way more famous than me. We’ll ultimately have to do what he wants’.”

But it all worked out ok in the end: “We switched roles, and I think it worked out great. He was 1,000 times funnier than I was.”