Rob Lowe, Fox News anchor express outrage as The Interview fallout continues
Sony’s decision to cancel The Interview, a decision that is now worldwide, is one of those rare occasions where it actually does kind of matter what Hollywood thinks. And Hollywood is very upset, as it was happy to collectively tell the world on Twitter over the past 24 hours or so. Steve Carell, whose own North Korea project was canceled in the wake of the news, had some thoughts about the situation:
Sad day for creative expression. #feareatsthesoul
— Steve Carell (@SteveCarell) December 17, 2014
Judd Apatow, who has worked with The Interview stars Seth Rogen and James Franco in the past, called the decision “ridiculous,” saying, “What if some anonymous person got offended by something an executive at Coke said. Would we all have to stop drinking Coke?”. Comedians like Ben Stiller, Patton Oswalt, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Schumer, Michael Ian Black, and Damon Wayans Jr. offered a mixture of earnest concern and snark. Aaron Sorkin wrote an op-ed about it, like he does. Meanwhile, Guardians Of The Galaxy’s James Gunn pondered the decision’s effect on the GoTG sequel:
But it was shy bladder lightning rod Rob Lowe who went there by comparing the decision to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ceding parts of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in 1938: