‘That’s not Kim Jong Un. That’s me!’

PASADENA, California: In the midst of the international imbroglio over his role as North Korea’s leader in the screwball comedy “The Interview,” nothing was quite so jarring for Randall Park as seeing his face on television as newscasters talked about Kim Jong Un.
“It was crazy to turn on the news and to see my face, yeah on CNN,” said Park in his first public remarks since the film’s release at the Television Critics Association gathering on Wednesday.
“And they’d be talking about Kim Jong Un, but they’d show my face. And I’m like, that’s not Kim Jong-un. That’s me.”
The 40-year-old Korean American landed the most high-profile role of his acting career in “The Interview,” the Sony Pictures film that angered North Korea with its fictional assassination of Kim and triggered a devastating cyberattack on the studio.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation determined the North Korean government was behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures, which North Korea has denied.
Park, known for playing an ambitious governor on the HBO political comedy “Veep,” said he has not fully pieced together what the experience meant to him. But his safety was never an issue, even after hackers made threats of violence to stop the distribution of the comedy.