Sony Executives Apologize As Their Racial Emails Were Hacked And Leaked To Media

 

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Film producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures Chair Amy Pascal were embarrassed by leaked emails released as a result of the Sony hack, this time mocking President Barack Obama in a set of racist email exchanges. On the eve of a fundraising breakfast being attended by the President at the home of DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Pascal and Rudin went over things she could discuss with Obama while at the event in October 2013. 

"Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO? Pascal asks Rudin, a reference to the 2012 Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained that dealt with the subject of slavery in the antebellum South. '12 years,' responds Rudin."

The both were listing many current movies starring black actors including Lee Daniels ‘The Butler’ and two Kevin Hart movies, ‘Think Like a Man’ and ‘Ride Along.’ I bet he likes Kevin Hart, says Rudin at one point. This all come just one day after Rudin called Angelina Jolie 'a minimally talented spoiled brat' in emails discussing who would direct her upcoming remake of the classic film flop Cleopatra. 

Rudin said the “private emails between friends” were “written in haste” and without much thought that his ignorance would ever see the light of day, and for that he is “profoundly” sorry:

“Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended,” he told Deadline. “I made a series of remarks that were meant only to be funny, but in the cold light of day, they are in fact thoughtless and insensitive — and not funny at all. To anybody I’ve offended, I’m profoundly and deeply sorry, and I regret and apologize for any injury they might have caused.”