Seth Rogen has addressed the Sony hack, which was reportedly caused by his film The Interview.
It’s believed that a North Korean group named Guardians of Peace who wanted to get back at Sony for the film, in which Rogen and James Franco’s characters are hired by the CIA to kill Kim Jong-Un, are responsible for the leaks.
Aaron Sorkin has since slammed the media for publishing the email exchanges between executives and now Rogen is opening up about it on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Rogen said he not sure “definitively” if the film is what caused these leaks, but did say he was proud of the film – which he co-wrote.
"I can't definitively say I know the ramifications of the storm. I mean, I don't know if the hacking honestly is because of our movie, definitively or not," he said. "I know that it has been the center of a lot of media attention lately. It is weird because we just wanted to make a really funny, entertaining movie and the movie itself is very silly and wasn't meant to be controversial in any way."
Access Hollywodo reports he also appeared on The Howard Stern Show and shared his thoughts that it could even be a “hacker group” not related to North Korea causing all of the ruckus.
He blamed the media for even publishing the emails, saying "It doesn't affect you at all. They're not doing anything illegal. They're not trying to fool you as the consumer. They're having private correspondence with one another.”
He continued that the “media outlets are directly profiting from… they are literally re-selling stolen sh-t.”
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