Seth Rogen lays out some of his distate for Ben Carson in a new interview with The Daily Beast. In between talking about Steve Jobs, Rogen laid out some of the reasons that led to Tweets like this over the past few months:
Fuck you @RealBenCarson.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) October 9, 2015
It’s fairly simple and to the point, as you can tell right from the start of The Daily Beast’s chat:
“They implied that if their [right-wing] politics were applied to the Holocaust that Jews wouldn’t have been killed,” says a disgusted Rogen. “To me, it wasn’t just about the Holocaust thing. It was about the [Oregon] shooting and how he said that people shouldn’t just stand there and let themselves get shot, and that the correct thing to do if someone has a gun in your back is to point them at someone else and have them go rob that person? I mean, I just read a lot of the stuff this guy was saying and he seemed like someone that I just detested. At face value, what he’s said is absolutely despicable. That guy is totally f*ckin’ bonkers.”
While I think he gets a few of the facts mixed up in terms of what Ben Carson meant in his comments, it’s hard to argue that he doesn’t come off sounding a bit off his rocker. Why the Holocaust was even brought into the entire debate really confuses me, but you can’t change it. It’s out in the open and has been discussed. It’s there now.
Luckily, Rogen wasn’t completely focused on just Ben Carson during this interview, there was a bit about some of his other potential projects. The most interesting being the status of Pineapple Express 2:
I think I read the email in the [Sony] hack where they decided not to do it, though! [Laughs] Judd was trying pretty hard to do it, but you can read the exact correspondence that led to the demise of that film! They essentially wanted us to make it for the same amount of money that we made the first one for, and when you’re making a movie with action in it, it’s very, very difficult to do.
There’s also a nice bit about all the parties he and the cast of This Is The End would hold in New Orleans, and how the cast of 12 Years A Slave would always be there to counter the depressing nature of their movie with the good times. Well worth a read if you find the time.
(Via The Daily Beast)
