Vancouver actor Seth Rogen said he knew about porn star Stormy Daniels’ alleged Trump affair years ago.
“At the time, when you ask a porn star who they’ve been sleeping with and the answer was Donald Trump, it was like the least surprising thing that she could’ve said,” Rogen said this week during an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ show.
Rogen said he and Daniels knew each other after she was cast in two of his films in smaller roles. In 2007’s Knocked Up, Daniels played a lap dancer and in 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin, she played a porn star.
The B.C.-born actor said it was easier to cast adult film stars in his movies as strippers since they were more comfortable with the roles than most actresses.
“I’ve known Stormy Daniels a long time, and I’ll be honest, she may have mentioned some of this stuff around 10 years ago,” Rogen said in an interview on Ellen.
Rogen hasn’t been in touch with Daniels for years and said he didn’t realize the story would be as massive as it currently is.
“Again it wasn’t — at the time — wasn’t that surprising and then, as (Trump’s) campaign rolled out, it became clear that no one cared about anything he did,” Rogen said.
“So, it didn’t really occur to me even that it would come out or that anyone would care about it, but then when I saw it, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, Stormy told us all about that.'”
Rogen most recently appeared in buddy James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, which tells the story of how notoriously terrible cult film The Room was made. Rogen is attached to a number of films currently in post-production and will appear as the voice of Pumbaa in the upcoming 2019 remake of Disney’s The Lion King.
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