Sony Pictures hack: Michael Fassbender makes Aaron Sorkin feel bad about ‘normal-sized’ genitalia
MICHAEL Fassbender “makes you feel bad about having normal-sized genitalia”, writes Aaron Sorkin in the latest embarrassing Sony email leak.
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SCREENWRITER Aaron Sorkin said Michael Fassbender makes him feel bad about his manhood, in the latest embarrassing emails leaks from the Sony Pictures hack.
In a series of heated emails and behind-the-scenes drama around the failed Steve Jobs biopic Jobs, Sorkin rails against the 12 Years A Slave actor.
Sorkin, who won an Oscar for writing The Social Network and also is showrunner for TV drama The Newsroom, said Fassbender “makes you feel bad to have normal sized male genitalia”.
The Irish star famously bared all playing a sex addict in controversial film Shame.
Sorkin had his heart set on Tom Cruise to play Jobs, dismissing Oscar nominee Fassbender as a nobody.
“This used to be an event. I don’t know who Michael Fassbender is and the rest of the world isn’t going to care. This is insane,” Sorkin fumed in emails to super-producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures boss Amy Pascal.
However, he was later swayed by Fassbender’s talent, writing: “F*** it. He’s a great actor whose time has come … if the movie’s good he’ll be on the cover of everything and get nominated for everything.”
Soon after, the Jobs movie collapsed at Sony amid all the drama, and moved to rival Universal.
The cringe-worthy leaks come a day after vicious emails between Rudin and Pascal called Angelina Jolie a “minimally talented spoiled brat”.
JOLIE: ‘SHUT DOWN THAT SPOILED BRAT’
Sorkin and Rudin’s emails also reveal the list of Hollywood leading men who they wanted to play Jobs, including first choice Leonardo DiCaprio, who turned the role down, and Jobs look-alike Christian Bale.
Sony was the target of a cyberattack on Nov. 24, which shut down the company’s computers and released a trove of confidential documents online — including employee pay and personal details, financial details and the salaries of movie stars.
The hack is widely believed to have been orchestrated by the North Korean regime, which is furious over the Seth Rogan and James Franco comedy The Interview.
Security for the film’s premiere overnight has been beefed up, Sony said. The film is about a dimwitted journalist recruited by the CIA to assassinate dictator Kim Jong- un.
However, other security experts have said the leaks may be inside job from a disgruntled former employee.
Originally published as Sony Pictures hack: Michael Fassbender makes Aaron Sorkin feel bad about ‘normal-sized’ genitalia