Franco: Kim Jong-un is easy target

James Franco thinks North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un is an “easy target” for satire.

The 36-year-old actor is currently promoting his new political comedy with Seth Rogen, The Interview, about two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim.

After North Korea filed a complaint with the UN about the film, calling it an “act of war”, Sony decided to amend it.

But James sticks by the creative decisions Seth and co-director Evan Goldberg made in The Interview.

“[Supreme leader Kim is] a very easy target. But this kind of film makes you think about the subject in a different way than if it was a serious movie,” he revealed in an interview with the American edition of OK! magazine.

Seth is James’ longtime collaborator and they’ve worked on a number comedies together, including 2013 film This Is the End and TV series Freak and Geeks.

They recently grabbed headlines for their spoof of Kanye West’s music video for his single Bound 2.

“Seth probably makes me laugh more than anyone else, and he’s a very gifted writer,” James gushed. “I would do just about anything with him — and having done the Kim [Kardashian] and Kanye video, I’d say we almost have!”

The thespian recently closed his Broadway play Of Mice and Men, based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

But the star confesses he didn’t sign onto the production until years after the role was offered to him.

“I was asked to do Of Mice and Men four years ago, but I had a lot of movies coming up,” James explained. “Then [producer] David Binder asked me to be part of his production — it was a second chance, and you don’t always get that. So I said, ‘I’ll do whatever it takes to make it work.’”