Apparently The Interview, the North Korea comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco that caused a political uproar and led to the Sony hack, was deemed so risky that the studio hired security guards to protect Rogen and other key production team members.
Well, at least for a while.
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James Franco and Seth Rogen in “The Interview.” Photo: Sony
“I believe the studio provided security for the filmmakers in case someone from North Korea tried to kill us,” Rogen said on a recent episode of Britain’s Graham Norton Show.
“Then literally one day they were gone. I called everybody else. I was like, ‘Are your guys still there?’ And they were like, ‘No, my guys are gone.'”
Seth appearing on The Graham Norton Show. Photo: BBC
Logan’s security guard isn’t gone because Kim Jong Un got rid of him: The Bad Neighbors 2 star said Sony “just didn’t want to pay him anymore.”
“I thought, ‘Now I’m safe,'” he joked.
Rogen didn’t explain whether the guards were deployed before or after (presumably after) the Sony hack, or how long they protected and served Rogen and his colleagues, but while chatting with Norton, seated next to Paul Rudd, who was also there, he told an intriguing story about working with live tigers while filming The Interview. Apparently, everything to do with that movie asked people to put their lives at risk.
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Jen Chaney is a Yahoo US contributor.