United Kingdom, June 6 -- Seth Rogen has admitted directing Martin Scorsese in The Studio was the "worst thing in the world".

The actor stars in and directs the Apple TV Plus series in which he plays the head of a movie studio and it's featured cameos from industry titans including Goodfellas director Scorsese, Ron Howard, Anthony Mackie, Zoe Kravitz, Olivia Wilde and Zac Efron - and Rogen has now admitted he was "nervous" working with big name stars on his project.

In an interview with Jason Segel for Variety, Rogen explained: " I'd say half of them [the cameos] were people I didn't know at all. We wanted people you haven't seen us with before.

"Martin Scorsese, we just sent it to his manager. I'd met Zoe Kravitz once or twice. I met ...