While most of the Oscar-talk about Steve Jobs has been centered on Michael Fassbender’s performance, many critics have also been saying quietly that Seth Rogen is definitely award-worthy too. Seth plays Steve Wozniak in the film and people are saying that Seth gives a great, understated, purely dramatic performance. Seth hasn’t been talking that much on behalf of the film, but he’s got a great new interview with The Daily Beast. He not only chats about partying with Fassy, but what the drama was like around the Sony Hack and all of that. Oh, and he talks about politics, but most about Ben Carson. You can read the full piece here. Highlights:

Why he tweeted “f—k you” to Ben Carson: “They implied that if their [right-wing] politics were applied to the Holocaust that Jews wouldn’t have been killed. 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–kin’ bonkers.”

On the Oscar talk: “I hope that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy! Why not, sure! But actually Aaron Sorkin said that he suggested me for the role. I’d met him a few times before, and he said he just thought I could do it, which is crazy that Aaron Sorkin was thinking about me in any capacity.”

He’s tight with Fassbender, despite Seth’s history of making jokes about Fassy’s penis: “I’d met him a few times before. It’s funny. They were filming 12 Years a Slave in New Orleans at the same time that we were filming This Is the End, and for whatever reason—they probably wanted to blow off some steam—we were throwing parties a lot at bars because New Orleans is an easy place to do that, and so they would come and hang out with us quite a bit. I think the whole cast came to our wrap party when we finished shooting… We concluded that they were so deeply entrenched in something that was such a bummer to shoot that it was probably fun to hang out with these other people that were not. So we hung out a few times and he’s actually really funny. As an actor he takes his work very seriously, but as a human, he doesn’t take himself very seriously. He has a very good sense of humor and he’s someone that I would be actual friends with in my life, it feels like. So he was not appalled by my giant dick jokes.”

What he thinks of Kanye West: “I’ve had very pleasant experiences with Kanye West, honestly! He rapped me his entire new album in the back of a car. He was playing it on his laptop. I found him to be incredibly nice.”

Whether North Korea was really behind the Sony Hack: “Yeah. The dude who came to my house and did my cybersecurity, who I think used to work at NASA, said he didn’t think it was North Korea. And I’m not generally one to trust the government, so them implying that it’s North Korea doesn’t really ease [things]. But I honestly have no f–king clue. We still talk about it, me and Evan [Goldberg], and sometimes we say, “It must have been the North Koreans,” and other days we say, “There’s no f–king way it was the North Koreans.” I really don’t know, which is one of the weirdest parts of the whole thing. We’ll probably never know.

[From The Daily Beast]

He also says he doesn’t regret making The Interview or anything like that and if he had to do it all over again, the only thing he’d change would be three butt jokes. It’s interesting that Seth and Fassbender were friends before Steve Jobs too – Seth said that Fassy befriended Craig Robinson first and Craig would bring Fassy to This Is the End parties and that’s how the 12 Years a Slave crew would end up partying with the comedians. Oh, and Seth is totally right about Ben Carson. The things Carson has said are absolutely crazy and appalling.

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