Seth Rogen just lately instructed The New York Times that he hasn’t spoken to James Franco in a “long time” and has “no plans” to work with him sooner or later.
When requested about the place his relationship stands with Franco after he confronted allegations of sexual misconduct, Rogen answered, “I honestly think the nuance of it is too personal for me to get into right now. It is a very personal thing. There’s the public-facing side of it, which I’ve spoken about, and I have the same stance publicly that I’ve had, and I think the proof is in the pudding — I have not worked with him in years. But the personal side of it is just so nuanced, and it involves people that I don’t know if I should be dragging into this. I don’t know what I would benefit from getting deeply into it. Nothing has changed since the last time I talked about all this, and I haven’t worked with him in a really long time and I have no plans to.”
NTY’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro then requested Rogen if he nonetheless talks to Franco, and Rogen replied, “I haven’t talked to him in a long time, no.”
Rogen and Franco have been as soon as a potent one-two punch in Hollywood. Their collaboration historical past began on Paul Feig’s short-lived coming-of-age sequence “Freaks and Geeks,” which ran for one season on NBC in late 1999. Rogen was 16 on the time, and Franco was 21. They went on to seem collectively in a number of beloved comedy movies from the 2000s and 2010s, corresponding to “Knocked Up,” “Pineapple Express,” “This Is the End” and “The Interview.”
Franco’s profession was derailed in 2018 after five women, 4 of them his appearing college students, accused him of sexually exploitative conduct. Two of the ladies in 2019 filed a class action lawsuit towards Franco, claiming that he “engaged in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior towards female students by sexualizing their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects.” Franco settled the case in 2021 for $2.23 million.
This isn’t the primary time Rogen shut down the thought of reteaming with Franco. In a 2021 interview with The Sunday Times, Rogen stated he regretted saying in 2018 that he may work with Franco once more, and put the potential of a reunion to mattress.
“I also look back to that interview in 2018 where I comment that I would keep working with James, and the truth is that I have not and I do not plan to right now,” Rogen stated.
Franco instructed Selection in 2024 of his relationship with Rogen, “No. I haven’t talked to Seth. I love Seth, we had 20 great years together, but I guess it’s over. And not for lack of trying. I’ve told him how much he’s meant to me.”
