Seth Rogan has retold the story of an awkward conversation he once had with Meat Loaf during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
While referring to his 2016 movie, Sausage Party, Rogan explained, “I made this movie Sausage Party years ago. In it, there’s a scene where ‘I Would Do Anything For Love’ is playing, and we realized Meat Loaf sings it. It’s a movie about food that talks. We should have there be a meatloaf you cut to singing. In order to do that, we had to get the legal sign-off of Meat Loaf, the guy, to do a cartoon representation of him as a meatloaf. So, the question became, 'How are we going to pitch this to Meat Loaf?' I was like, ‘I’ll just call Meat Loaf and explain it to him.'”
Rogen, who called Meatloaf at 2:30pm on a Friday afternoon, continued, “I called him. The phone’s ringing, ringing, and ringing. I call like 10 times because I’m supposed to call it. Finally, Meat Loaf answers. He’s like, ‘Huh!? What? Huh?’ I’m like, ‘Meat Loaf! It’s Seth Rogen.’ He goes, ‘You woke me up from a nap!’ So, I’m like, ‘Bad start!'”
Rogen noted that Meat Loaf insisted he be called “Meat,” which the actor/comedian thought was “weird.” He added, “So, I explained, ‘Look, Meat. I have this film called Sausage Party, and in it, food talks, and there is a scene where we’re using one of your songs, and we thought it’d be funny if we cut to a meatloaf singing this song as your name is Meat Loaf. The food meatloaf is also called meatloaf.’ Then, there was like 30 seconds of silence, and then, he just goes, ‘Yeah, I get it!’ And he hung up.”