Seth Rogen talks about James Franco: “The personal side of it is just it’s so nuanced and it involves people that I don’t know if I should be dragging into this… I haven’t worked with him in a really long time and I have no plans to.”
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Unpopular Reddit opinion but Seth is fake af… He joked about Franco being a womanizer and getting with younger women constantly but the moment Me Too became a popular movement he acted all high and mighty and stopped hanging out with James.
I really like Seth Rogen tbh
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It always sucks when you have to cut off a friend. Had to cut a few people out of my life myself. It’s one of the toughest things you can ever do. Seth made the hard, but correct choice. It would be so easy to brush it out of sight, out of mind like what Courtney Love has done with her friendship with Marilyn Manson or how most of the cast of *That 70’s Show* came to Danny Masterson’s defence even after being found guilty.
It’s not a betrayal of a friendship – the person you’re cutting off betrayed that friendship first. It’s an acknowledgement that the party you were friends with has done something terrible and you do not want to associated with it and the person should know the ramifications of their actions, including the loss of personal relationships. Sometimes that’s all the justice their victims ever see.
tbh people need to stop asking him this tired ass question.
Good for him, he really walked the walk on this one.
The first “um ” he sounds like chewbacca lol
Predatory people are good at finding normal, empathetic people to surround themselves with. Their number one talent is finding people who are easy to take advantage of and who can benefit them in any way possible. When you’re not a predator you don’t think like this, which makes the behavior hard to spot. I think this is how you can be friends with someone for years before you find out they’re a dirtbag.
He backed him until Franco was fully blacklisted.
When multiple women first accused James Franco of sexually inappropriate behavior, particularly concerning his acting students at Studio 4, Rogen initially stated he would continue to work with him. In early 2018, Rogen even made an ill-advised joke on a [Saturday Night Live](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live) monologue attempting to downplay a separate online incident involving Franco and an underage girl
‘In recounting her time on *Freaks and Geeks*, the conversation wound back to the revelation from Philipps’ 2018 memoir, *This Will Only Hurt a Little*, that co-star James Franco had pushed her to the ground on the set.
Around the launch of her since-ended late night show, Philipps told [*The Hollywood Reporter*](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/busy-philipps-talk-show-busy-tonight-working-james-franco-1150422/), “James and I have talked about it over the years. At one point he apologized to me,” she said. “I was always acutely aware of my expendability, and so I felt I needed to never complain, always show up on time and not be difficult.”
In the year that followed, multiple [sexual harassment allegations surfaced](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/james-franco-sued-sexual-harassment-by-acting-students-1245314/) around Franco, with a [settlement deal reached earlier this year](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/settlement-deal-reached-in-james-franco-sexual-misconduct-suit-4135952/). Since then, longtime friend, creative partner, and former *Freaks and Geeks* co-star Seth Rogen has said he [has “no plans”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/seth-rogen-james-franco-sexual-misconduct-accusations-1234950486/) to work with Franco again.
When asked whether that surprised Philipps, she said she “guessed” she was surprised but, “I have to say, I mean, it’s interesting. They were super close, and they had a very tight relationship. And so I don’t have any information,” she told Wilstein. “I haven’t spent my days doing deep dives into what it all was. I didn’t work with James past age 20, so I can only speak to the horrible behavior I experienced. She also stated she wouldn’t “speculate about their friendship,” but in general, she “wouldn’t want to work with someone who has multiple allegations of predatory behavior.”’
[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/busy-philipps-seth-rogen-james-franco-harassment-freaks-and-geeks-dawsons-creek-1234973315/](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/busy-philipps-seth-rogen-james-franco-harassment-freaks-and-geeks-dawsons-creek-1234973315/)
Sometimes you outgrow people as you mature and realize they’re very problematic. It’s super normal and I’d hate to be questioned about it all the time when the answer is obvious.
You could cut the tension with a knife. Definitely a sore subject for him.
Yeah this is a weird convo to be having it makes it feel like he’s complicit by having been his friend.
If I read between the lines, I would guess Franco hurt someone close to Seth that makes it hard to deny the kind of person he is.
I can’t believe how gullible people are, y’all act like he’s some saint. I’ll give him credit, he definitely knew how to sever ties quick and save his career after his best buddy got cancelled.
I like this answer. He takes a beat, confirms that things haven’t changed and he feels the same. I think what he was dancing more around was other collaborators that may still have a relationship with Franco.
People forget Rogens a pretty prominent producer on *a lot* these days. He’s just not naming names while saying… Yeah that kinda left a funk between us all.
That was my takeaway.
Whatever
The Comedy Central James Franco roast has not aged well at all.
Jonah Hill and Jeff Ross presiding with Andy Dick, Horatio Sanz, and Steve Rannazzisi in the audience