Star George Clooney uses his Hollywood bully pulpit to give advice on The Interview, and his thoughts on the attack.
If Sony knew months ago how The Interview would dominate the entertainment news landscape this close to Christmas, they might have been euphoric until they learned the reason.
As we have previously reported, in the wake of the North Korean hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and a terrorist threat, most major theater chains pulled out of screening The Interview this holiday season before Sony itself shelved the project indefinitely (possibly forever).
We’ve had plenty to say on the matter, but leave it to Hollywood’s unofficial ambassador, Mr. George Clooney, to sum it up best. Below is a wonderful bit of insight Clooney offered in a worthwhile interview he did with Deadline in discussing the cyber-terrorism.
“We should be in the position right now of going on offense with this,” Clooney said. “I just talked to Amy an hour ago. She wants to put that movie out. What do I do? My partner Grant Heslov and I had the conversation with her this morning. Bryan and I had the conversation with her last night. Stick it online. Do whatever you can to get this movie out. Not because everybody has to see the movie, but because I’m not going to be told we can’t see the movie. That’s the most important part. We cannot be told we can’t see something by Kim Jong-un, of all f*cking people.”
Cheers to that. We recommend if you have time that you read his theory about how the U.S. media was unwittingly directed by North Korea and the rest of the interview by clicking here.
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