James Franco Thinks 20-Year Friendship With Seth Rogen Is ‘Over’

James Franco And Seth RogenHis friendship is not what it used to be.

“I didn’t talk to Seth,” Franco, 46, said Diversity In an interview published on Friday (October 25). “I love Seth, we had 20 wonderful years together but I think it’s over now. And it’s not for lack of trying. “I told him how much he meant to me.”

Rogen and Franco, 42, first met on the 1999 teen drama Freaks and Nerds before finding success together on the big screen with films like Pineapple Express, This is the End And Disaster Artist.

But in 2018, Franco was accused of sexually inappropriate behavior by five women, four of whom were acting students. Two of these former students filed sexual harassment lawsuits in 2019. Franco concluded the case In 2021.

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“While Defendants continue to deny the allegations in the Complaint, they acknowledge that Plaintiffs raise important issues,” both parties said in a statement. Hollywood Reporter at the time “and all parties strongly believe that now is a critical time to focus on addressing the mistreatment of women in Hollywood.”

Although Rogen previously said he would continue to work with Franco, he expressed a different perspective in recent interviews.

“The truth is, right now, I haven’t done (working with Franco) and I don’t plan on doing it,” Rogen said. Sunday Times In May 2021.

Seven months later, Franco reacted to his former costar’s words, saying that her statement was true.

“We are not working together at this time and have no plans to work together,” Franco said on SiriusXM. The Jess Cagle Show. “Of course it was hurtful in context, but I understand. He had to answer for me because I was silent. He had to answer for me and I don’t want that.”

“I love Seth Rogen. “I worked with him for 20 years,” he continued. “We haven’t had a single fight in 20 years. It’s not just one fight. He was my closest colleague, my collaborator. We just gelled.

Franco is grateful for the opportunity to star again in his new movie Hi Joe. In the series, Franco plays an alcoholic American World War II veteran searching for the son he fathered in Naples in the early ’70s.

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The film is Franco’s second film to be released since 2019.

“I had to change my whole lifestyle,” he said Diversity. “That’s why I’m proud of the work I did during that period. And yes, I wasn’t working in movies, but I was definitely working hard to change who I was.”

Us Weekly He reached out to Rogen’s team for comment on Franco’s latest interview.