--- title: Seth Rogen Defends Amy Pascal In Sony Hack description: Seth Rogen says the producer, who was fired over racist emails, should not have lost her job. canonical: https://time.com/4448238/seth-rogen-has-an-interesting-take-on-amy-pascal/ author: Kastalia Medrano article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-11T15:48:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:07.717Z og:title: Seth Rogen Defends Amy Pascal In Sony Hack Fallout og:description: She 'had a very feminist agenda in the best way possible' og:url: https://time.com/4448238/seth-rogen-has-an-interesting-take-on-amy-pascal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24ee8ce895d01dd/6988a20297cdff5f006ad683/seth-rogen-amy-pascal.jpg?branch=production&width=1067&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1067 og:image:height: 600 og:image:alt: Seth Rogen Amy Pascal Sexism Feminist og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Rogen Defends Amy Pascal In Sony Hack Fallout twitter:description: She 'had a very feminist agenda in the best way possible' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24ee8ce895d01dd/6988a20297cdff5f006ad683/seth-rogen-amy-pascal.jpg?branch=production&width=1067&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Seth Rogen Defends Amy Pascal In Fallout From Sony Hack > Sponsored content. 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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. 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