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Was Angelina Jolie “damaged” professionally by the Sony Hack? I still can’t tell. When the initial flurry of information came out last December, I actually took the time to read through Angelina’s emails to Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal, and she seemed cool, efficient, focused and professional. Meanwhile, Rudin and the now-fired Pascal seemed like petty, immature Mean Girls. So now that Wikileaks has released the full cache of hacked documents from Sony, have we learned anything new about Angelina’s relationships with Pascal and Rudin?

According to SheKnows – who must have gone through the Wikileaks stuff with a fine-toothed comb – the emails between Pascal and Rudin were even worse than originally reported. Any time Jolie emails one or both of them about the Cleopatra project, Pascal and Rudin snipe about Jolie to each other, electronically rolling their eyes at whatever Jolie has written. At one point Rudin writes:

“I’m not remotely interested in presiding over a $180m ego bath… the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming… I have no need to keep her happy. There is NO relationship with any movie star — ANY one — that requires our willingness to prostrate ourselves this way in the face of childish, irresponsible, willful and un-partnerly behavior.”

[From SheKnows]

SheKnows says that after that, the “entire email string is full of both Rudin and Pascal taking turns bashing each other and Jolie along with anyone else who gets in their path.” When Pascal forwards her email chain with Rudin to Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, Lynton writes: “You guys are nuts to put this in an email.” Another Sony executive, Doug Belgrad, also got forwarded the same emails and he was also appalled, writing: “Maybe you guys should lay off the email.”

When a meeting gets canceled about Cleopatra – not canceled by Jolie, but she emails to confirm the cancelation – Rudin emails Pascal, writing: “She knows it’s off. Calm down. She’s an actress for hire, not Cleopatra.” Pascal replies, “I forgot.” Pascal and Rudin also trade insults about Jolie when Unbroken’s reviews are less than gushing, and they joke about how Angelina is trying to “woo” the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

After all of that bitching – which took place throughout 2013 and 2014 – Scott Rudin still asked Angelina if she was interested in starring in Ma Ingalls in his film adaptation of Little House on the Prairie. Rudin wanted Angelina and Tom Cruise to star as Ma and Pa Ingalls, and while Angelina liked the script, she said no to him, writing: “I love Little House but don’t think I am the best person to do it. You have a very special project and a brilliant script and I am beyond grateful you would give me a chance to consider it.” This was literally happening around the same time that Rudin was screeching about how Angelina was a “spoiled brat.”

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