Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin apologised on Thursday for calling Angelina Jolie a “spoiled brat” and making racially offensive jokes about President Obama’s presumed taste in movies.
The comments were made in a series of leaked email exchanges between Rudin and Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal, who also apologised on Thursday. It was yet another embarrassment in the ongoing Sony hacking scandal, in which highly sensitive material is being leaked almost daily.
This latest brouhaha erupted when hacked email exchanges obtained by the website Gawker gave the public a juicy, unfiltered glimpse into the blunt, often crude way Hollywood does business.
“She’s a camp event and a celebrity and that’s all,” wrote Rudin of Jolie in one exchange about a potential “Cleopatra” project.
In another, as reported by Buzzfeed , Rudin and Pascal also riffed about what she should talk to President Obama about at an upcoming fundraiser.
“Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?” Pascal asked, referring to Quentin Tarantino’s “ Django Unchained .”
They continued the email chain joking about which films the President might enjoy, referencing “Lee Daniels’ The Butler , Think Like a Man and Ride Along all films with primarily African American casts. — AP
