{"id":144,"date":"2014-12-30T23:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=144"},"modified":"2014-12-30T23:27:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:27:26","slug":"seth-rogen-james-franco-reveal-details-on-the-interview-talk-humanizing-kim-jong-un-in-live-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen, James Franco Reveal Details on The Interview, Talk Humanizing Kim Jong-un in Live-Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nMost actors and filmmakers want to keep their movies spoiler-free, but in the case of The Interview, Seth Rogen and James Franco were more than willing to share details in a recent live-tweet. After the massive Sony hack and the terrorist threats that followed, the film was pulled by the company and major theater chains from its intended Christmas Day release.<br \/>\nTo combat this decision, which both actors have spoken out against (in addition to many others in Hollywood), The Interview had a limited release in independent theaters, bringing in $1 million \u2014 an impressive gross, considering it only reached 10 percent of the intended theaters.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s at this point that I gotta say that it&#8217;s f\u2014king weird I&#8217;m watching this on TV right now.  #TheInterview,\u201d Rogen tweeted . <\/p>\n<p>For the film, about a fictional assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the This Is the End stars opened up about the thought process that went into shaping the formidable character.<br \/>\n\u201cWe were gonna give Kim a big, epic entrance, but thought it would be funnier if he had a quiet, unassuming one.  #TheInterview,\u201d Rogen wrote . \u201cThere was a lot of talk about how sympathetic we should make Kim.  #TheInterview.\u201d<br \/>\nFranco added , \u201cRandall park is flawless! He humanizes KIM! #TheInterview @Sethrogen @evandgoldberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair also took the opportunity to talk about some of the real-life hardships going on in North Korea.<br \/>\n\u201cThe real Kim Jong Il told his sons that western culture would make them effeminate and unfit for ruling.  #TheInterview,\u201d Rogen wrote, adding , \u201cTwo thirds of the North Korean people are starving. #TheInterview. We try to stay true to the facts, but I honestly don&#8217;t know what the North Korean regime think of Jews. #TheInterview.\u201d<br \/>\nThe noted smoker also added , \u201cWeed is legal in North Korea. #TheInterview.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/seth-rogen-james-franco-details-the-interview-live-tweet-20142912\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most actors and filmmakers want to keep their movies spoiler-free, but in the case of The Interview, Seth Rogen and James Franco were more than willing to share details in a recent live-tweet. After the massive Sony hack and the terrorist threats that followed, the film was pulled by the company and major theater chains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-interview","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}