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# Seth Rogen Defends Amy Pascal In Fallout From Sony Hack

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## Kastalia Medrano


Aug 11, 2016 3:48 PM UTC

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## Kastalia Medrano


Aug 11, 2016 3:48 PM UTC

Seth Rogen is continuing a week of [interesting comments about women](http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/seth-rogen-knocked-up-katharine-heigl-judd-apatow-paul-rudd-leslie-mann-a7182431.html) by saying that Amy Pascal, the producer whose [racist comments about African Americans](http://time.com/3631127/shonda-rhimes-sony-emails/) were revealed in the 2014 Sony hack, was in fact doing good work and should arguably [not have lost her job](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/11/seth-rogen-sony-hack).

Rogen told _Any Given Wednesday_’s Bill Simmons that he’s sick of being blamed for the hack (due to his part in the [terrible idea that was _The Interview_)](http://time.com/3631562/seth-rogen-amy-pascal-the-interview/), and that anyway, didn’t it lead to good things like blowing open the discussion about the wage gap?

“But look what happened as a result of all that,” Rogen told Simmons. “One person lost their job: a woman who was running the studio, who specifically had a very feminist agenda in the best way possible. She greenlit the _Ghostbusters_ movie, she had been talking about making movies specifically less homophobic in a lot of ways, and she’s the one person who basically lost her job over it.”

For a lot of us, though, any feminist agenda Pascal might have had isn’t quite enough to erase the memory of reading emails in which she made a [string of jokes](http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sonys-amy-pascal-apologizes-for-obama-emails-not-who-i-am-1201377177/) to the effect that [President Obama](http://motto.time.com/4429139/thanks-obama/) would enjoy such sources of entertainment as _Django Unchained_, _12 Years A Slave_, and Kevin Hart. You know, because he’s black.

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