Seth Rogen, James Franco Talk ‘F*cked Up’ Sony Hack with Howard Stern
Following the massive cyber-attack on Sony Pictures that appears to have been committed as retaliation for the new film The Interview, stars Seth Rogen and James Franco have been less available to the press than they otherwise would have been leading up to the film’s Christmas premiere. But there they were on The Howard Stern Show this morning talking about how weird it is that their comedy film has somehow become the center of an international crisis.
Stern kicked off the interview by calling North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a “fat turd,” prompting Franco to laugh and say, “Don’t provoke him!” Rogen added, “It’s bad enough, Howard!”
“No one has definitively told us that North Korea is who did the hack,” Rogen said. “One day, I’m like, ‘It’s fucking for sure them.’ And the next day I’m like, ‘There’s no way it’s them'” because it seems “too savvy of Hollywood politics.”
The group that has taken responsibility for the hack has aligned itself with the North Korean regime, but it has not been officially linked to that country directly. Of course, as Aaron Sorkin pointed out in a New York Times op-ed on Monday, it is the American press that has done the legwork for the hackers when it comes to picking out and publishing the juiciest bit of gossip from executives’ private emails.
When Stern started grilling the actors about their salaries, which also came to light from the hack, Rogen said, “The fact that I’m talking about it is fucking weird. It’s stolen information! I think it’s fucked up that anyone’s fucking talking about it!”
According to Stern, who insisted he wasn’t joking, said the Sony hack “is no different than a 9/11-type attack.”
“I do think it’s fucked up that everyone is doing exactly what these criminals want,” Rogen replied, blaming journalists for spreading the information that the hackers stole.
Stern tied it back into the celebrity nude photo leak from earlier in the year. “If we protected these women with the nude pictures,” he argued, news outlets should be doing the same with the leaked emails. “It’s the same exact thing.”
Listen to audio below, via SiriusXM’s Howard 100:
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