![James Franco for Attitude Magazine [April 2013]On the constant speculation over his sexuality:One of the things that’s very much part of my public image is the question of my sexuality. It’s not something that bothers me in the slightest. It hasn’t gone away and I get asked about it from all sides. It’s partly my doing and partly not my doing.
On playing gay:If I’m playing a gay character, sometimes the sexuality is secondary. In the case of Allen Ginsberg (In Howl) and Hart Crane (In The Broken Tower, which he co-wrote and starred in, I was primarily interested in their artistic lives and their work. And their sexuality, because it played a part in their poems and their identities, became important for that reason. And because they were pushing boundaries of their own in their own time; in the 20s in the case of Hart Crane and in the 50s and 60s for Ginsberg. In the case of Milk, it is a very important film for gay rights and gay culture, and just as a celebration of Harvey Milk as a person, but it’s also more universal. It’s about equal rights for everyone.
On watching guys have full on sex right in front of him: Yeah, it was fine. It was, err….. Travis really took the lead in directing those scenes. I’ve done films with artists before when the material goes beyond what I was used to in mainstream films and it felt like that. It was in line with some other artistic I’d been doing.read more here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a0c6db8e9db6359ce9a7a5712b9d5f21/tumblr_mj56m29haa1qio3jlo1_400.jpg)
James Franco
for Attitude Magazine [April 2013]
On the constant speculation over his sexuality:
One of the things that’s very much part of my public image is the question of my sexuality. It’s not something that bothers me in the slightest. It hasn’t gone away and I get asked about it from all sides. It’s partly my doing and partly not my doing.
On playing gay:
If I’m playing a gay character, sometimes the sexuality is secondary. In the case of Allen Ginsberg (In Howl) and Hart Crane (In The Broken Tower, which he co-wrote and starred in, I was primarily interested in their artistic lives and their work. And their sexuality, because it played a part in their poems and their identities, became important for that reason. And because they were pushing boundaries of their own in their own time; in the 20s in the case of Hart Crane and in the 50s and 60s for Ginsberg. In the case of Milk, it is a very important film for gay rights and gay culture, and just as a celebration of Harvey Milk as a person, but it’s also more universal. It’s about equal rights for everyone.
On watching guys have full on sex right in front of him:
Yeah, it was fine. It was, err….. Travis really took the lead in directing those scenes. I’ve done films with artists before when the material goes beyond what I was used to in mainstream films and it felt like that. It was in line with some other artistic I’d been doing.
read more here.
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James Franco,
Michelle Williams,
Rachel Weisz + Mila Kunis
at the London premiere of
“Oz: The Great and Powerful.”
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James Franco for DETAILS [March 2013]
On persistent gay rumors: “One of my professors at Yale… had been a 19th-century- literature scholar. But as soon as he brought his queer life into that world, it gave him this energy and a realization: It wasn’t about being gay but about being different. And that gave me a feeling of enormous permission.”
On his childhood graffiti art: “My friends and I had a group we called I.A.K., which stood for ‘I am king.’ We would write poetry or little sayings that we liked and then sign it with the group moniker.”
On finding an alternative to smoking: “There was lots of pot in the ‘Spring Breakers’ strip-club scene. I don’t even smokecigarettes for roles anymore – I use herbal stuff.”
On his advice to others pursuing dreams: “All you have is what you work on and how hard you work on it. As far as the results or the reception, it’s out of your hands. That’s something I really had to come to understand.”
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new movie:
”Spring Breakers“
starring Selena Gomez , Vanessa Hudgens,
Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine,
James Franco + Gucci Mane
Hits theaters this March…
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“I’m living for everything this photo stands for” - Natles Nicole
Vanity Fair’s ‘Freaks and Geeks’ Reunion
see more here…
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![James Franco + his ‘Spring Breakers’ director Harmony Korin for L’Officiel Hommes [Paris, Fall 2012]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbc27okN3N1r9c36po1_400.jpg)
James Franco + his ‘Spring Breakers’ director
Harmony Korin for L’Officiel Hommes [Paris, Fall 2012]
