Lisa Kudrow: Movie Execs Need To Keep Their Mouths Shut — Even In Their Own Private Emails
Lisa Kudrow has some thoughts for the movie execs who run major Hollywood studios — particularly, it would appear, Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal. Basically, the Friends alum, in an interview Friday, told the Hollywood bigwigs that they need to keep their big mouths shut, even in their own private emails.
Kudrow appeared on the online interview program HuffPost Live, where she offered her thoughts on the embarrassing leaks by as-yet-unidentified computer hackers of emails in which Pascal and other movie bigshots offered some highly candid, even insulting remarks about various big-name Hollywood stars — and even cracked racially-tinged jokes about U.S. President Barack Obama.
But Kudrow, who has not been referenced in any of the emails released to date by a hacker group calling itself “Guardians of Peace,” said she was in disbelief that high-level studio execs did not simply assume that email correspondence could be easily sent anywhere, to anyone.
“Don’t write anything you don’t want broadcast,” Kudrow said, responding to a question on what he execs could learn from the humiliating leaks. “How come I know you don’t write anything you don’t want broadcast in an email? How come I know that? Who’s advising people?”
The “Guardians of Peace” group has so far targeted only Sony, releasing another trove of confidential internal Sony documents and correspondence on Saturday, and promising, in an email to media members, that the leaks are not done yet.
In fact, the hackers said a large “Christmas gift” of internal documents is on the way, that will “put Sony Pictures into the worst state.”
In the emails already made public, Pascal and others are shown taking shots at stars such as Angelina Jolie, Kevin Hart, Leonardo DiCaprio, and the children of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett.
In one email exchange, producer Scott Rudin describes Jolie to Pascal as a “spoiled brat,” and in another Pascal brands DiCaprio “despicable” for backing out of the lead role in an anticipated biopic about late Apple Computers CEO Steve Jobs.
“It doesn’t matter how many times it says ‘This is confidential, meant for just between the sender and the recipient,'” Kudrow, curently starring in the HBO series The Comeback, told HuffPost Live. “Why don’t we know that there are no rules? Everything is broadcast and published. That’s the part I just don’t understand.”
The bizarre scandal shows that the high-powered execs, who are traditionally looked upon as almost godlike figures in Hollywood, “need to have more boundaries and accountability and a little personal responsibility,” Lisa Kudrow said.
