re: Wait, so James Franco got #MeToo'd and cancelled for having consensual sex with adults???

Eh. It was more than just banging his students. He was doing some rightfully creepy shite.

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Franco has also attracted attention for controversial behavior on social media. In 2014, he used Instagram to ask a 17-year-old British girl he’d met outside a New York theater if she had a boyfriend and whether she was 18. Even after learning her age, he asked for the name of her hotel and if he should rent a room.

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Katie Ryan, who met Franco at Playhouse West and took several classes at Studio 4, said the actor “would always make everybody think there were possible roles on the table if we were to perform sexual acts or take off our shirts" in his projects.

She said that for years, she received mass email requests from Franco to audition for roles playing "a prostitute or a hooker."

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In 2015, Franco asked Tither-Kaplan to play a prostitute in another of his projects, the feature film “The Long Home,” with a cast that included him, Josh Hutcherson, Courtney Love and Timothy Hutton.

The part required her to perform nude, and she agreed because she considered it a big break. In fact, she signed nudity agreements for each of the films she made with Franco.

But one day on set in May 2015, a producer approached her and other women to ask if they wanted to film a “bonus scene” of an orgy. In it, Tither-Kaplan appeared fully nude, she said. A handful of other women were selected to appear with Franco, who simulated performing oral sex on each of them, Tither-Kaplan said. But in each case, she said he removed a clear plastic guard that covered their vaginas — and continued to simulate the sex act with no protection.

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Good on him that he recognizes that his behavior was shitty and he’s remorseful. But, he brought it on himself.

LA Times article from 2018

The reality is this is not simply a case of sleeping with college girls. They were his students and supposedly he basically Harvey Weinstein’ed them. Do it and he will hook them up.

They were sluts for caving and giving it to him, but that doesn’t remove the fact he was a POS abusing his power relationship with the students.

Even if he is remorseful, he knew it was wrong. He is trying to get his name back out there and get back into acting. Rogen getting attacked by some on here is ridiculous. Guy didn’t throw him under the bus for something he was doing. He was actually being brought into it because they were close friends and colleagues. He should let Franco’s sick behavior drag him down too?

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The me too movement got pushed to absurdity and suffocated itself

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But the consequences are long lasting . Men are still skittish around women.

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When has the teacher sleeping with the students been considered acceptable behavior?

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You’re kidding right?

I was watching “This is the End” a few weeks back and i concluded that Franco has gotta come back. He’s too funny to just be done.

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When has the teacher sleeping with the students been considered acceptable behavior?

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They weren't his students

And they were consenting adults

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When has the teacher sleeping with the students been considered acceptable behavior?

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I hate to break it to you, my guy, but relationships between students and college professors aren't as rare as you might think. And schools (mostly) turn a blind eye to them because they are relationships between two consenting adults.

Watching Russell Brand fumble through his Bible for 2 mins is awful TV

What I got from this thread is that somehow James Franco had to come up with a scheme to lure legal age women in to have sex with him bc he was having a hard time doing it otherwise

Good luck to any of you single guys out there, if James Franco is struggling, you’re all hopeless