Sony hack exposes how studio execs really feel about 'spoiled brat' Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie was described as a ‘minimally talented spoiled brat’ by studio execs in a leaked email chain.

16:48 10 December 2014

An email conversation between Sony Pictures co-chairperson Amy Pascal and movie producer Scott Rudin regarding Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie has gone public after it was hacked and published online this week. In the conversation, the actress was described as “minimally talented spoiled brat.”

The discussion, which took place in February, is believed to be about the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic. According to the email exchange, Jolie apparently wanted David Fincher to leave the project and direct her film Cleopatra instead.

Pascal said: “She is upset about us giving David Jobs. She wants to talk.” To which Rudin replied: 
“I don't want to waste my time on this.”

“YOU BETTER SHUT ANGIE DOWN BEFORE SHE MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR DAVID TO DO JOBS,” he reportedly added in another email.

Rudin apparently demolished the idea of a Cleopatra movie saying he had “zero appetite for the indulgence of spoiled brats”.

“I've told you exactly how I want to do this material. It's the ONLY way I want to do this material. I'm not remotely interested in presiding over a $180m ego bath that we both know will be the career-defining debacle for us both,” the email continued to read.

“I'm not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for eighteen months so she could go direct a movie. I have no desire to be making a movie with her, or anybody, that she runs and that we don't.

“She's a camp event and a celebrity and that's all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming. We will end up being the laughing stock of our industry and we will deserve it, which is so clearly where this is headed that I cannot believe we are still wasting our time with it.”

Sony has fallen victim to numerous hacks recently. Numerous news agencies and insiders have speculated that North Korean hackers are responsible due to their disfavor of the imminent release of political satire film The Interview.