James Franco covers the June issue of GQ to promote his upcoming movie, This Is The End, which is some hipster movie that sounds like a wet dream to James Franco, artiste. If you haven’t already seen the trailer that’s been playing all over the place, the movie features James Franco playing a version of himself (whoever that is). In the film, “Franco” is hosting a Hollywood-type party that is attended not only by hipster favorites Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Paul Rudd but also by Emma Watson and Rihanna. The party rages on for awhile, but then the apocalypse happens. It looks like the type of movie one might enjoy while stoned but never otherwise.

Anyway, Franco is photographed for GQ by none other than Terry Richardson. For those of you who wondered why Uncle Terry doesn’t get pr0ny while shooting males stars such as Aaron Paul and Terry Richardson, well, James Franco is here to make up for that most grevious omission. Here, James gets a beej from a skeleton and offers up some excerpts about how the general public (that is, us, not him) is the real performance artist. Wait, what?

On James Franco, the man: “My public persona is something that is only partially constructed by me, so if people want to mock that, it’s fine. I mock it.”

He’s not completely about high art: “Your Highness? That movie sucks. You can’t get around that.”

Will there be a Pineapple sequel? “As far as why Pineapple Express 2 has not been made for real, I don’t know what the holdup is. I would do it, Danny [McBride] would do it, Seth [Rogen] would do it. I think Seth and Evan [Goldberg] just need a fire lit under their asses.”

On his new movie: “When I first read the script [for This Is The End], the James Franco character was–I guess the only way to describe it is he was a lot douchier than the version that we came up with. I was the materialistic guy. They were really playing up the Gucci-modeling aspect of my life.”

But what does it mean? “Like all comedies, even bad ones, [This Is The End] gets at important issues if you want to examine it.”

[From GQ]

Honestly, I know that Franco is speaking in English, but I have no idea what he’s talking about when he says that “James Franco” is not something that he continually and consciously manufactures with all of his talk of being a professor and simultaneously attending three universities all while holding down a fabulous career or directing and acting in both indies and blockbusters. He thinks we’re the ones who dream this crap up? He’s either terminally stoned or just f—ing with us all. Probably both. Oh, and don’t get me started with how Franco is murdering a William Faulkner classic in the new As I Lay Dying trailer.

Look, doucheguns!

Photos courtesy of GQ

I love Emilia Clarke, who plays the Khaleesi (Mother of Dragons) on Game of Thrones. She’s a tiny little thing, and she seriously kicks so much ass. But I’m starting to worry about Emilia. I’m worried that she doesn’t have any kind of Douche Radar. She dated Seth Macfarlane for half a year or something. And while Seth is creative and interesting and his talent is debatable (I mean that in a nice way), I think we can all agree that the douche is strong with Seth, regardless of his talent. But Seth and Emilia are over, and they’ve been over for a few months. Seth has already moved on (he reportedly moved on when he was still WITH Emilia, so…) with Charlize Theron. So Emilia was in the market for a new boyfriend. And she may have found one in… James Franco!

James Franco was seen squiring sexy “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke around Randalls Island Saturday afternoon during the Frieze art fair.

Said a spy of Franco and Seth MacFarlane’s ex, “They were looking quite friendly!”

[From Page Six]

Nooooooo. Khaleesi, NO! She doesn’t have a Douche Radar, does she? Some girls don’t. Funny, the first person that popped into my head when I wrote that was Kourtney Kardashian. James Franco = Scott Disick? No, it’s not that bad. James Franco has some positive attributes, but really, I imagine that “dating Franco” is a waste of time because he’s so busy jerking himself off literally and figuratively.

But! There’s a chance this could have been business, or business-pleasure mixing. A few months ago, Emilia signed on to star in Franco’s “latest directorial effort” which is an adaptation of Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days. Emilia will be playing “a stripper who brings her 3-year-old daughter to work.” Good God!!!!!!!!!!! Dear Emilia: I would prefer it if you just boned Franco and lacked a Douche Radar rather than seeing you play a stripper in some budget Franco-directed ART FILM.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some photos of Anne Hathaway and her husband in Brooklyn a few days ago. I’m not sure what Anne’s current strategy is, but I think it’s along the lines of “don’t say anything directly, but give people some happy-couple photo-ops”. If she announces a pregnancy this year, I really do think all will be “forgiven” for her, although I’m not sure that Annie has erred so badly that she needs to be “forgiven”. She doesn’t need to apologize for anything, you know? Her Oscar campaign and Oscar speech were JUST annoying, she didn’t do anything “wrong”.

As Bedhead covered earlier this week, James Franco was on Howard Stern’s show and The Artist discussed Anne Hathaway. To be fair to Franco, Howard brought it up and Howard said some of the most insulting things about Anne, but to be fair to Howard, Franco didn’t disagree with him. Franco talked about the fallout from his and Anne’s horrible Oscar co-hosting duties, saying: “Anne and I made up, by the way. Let’s just get that on the record. It was a really hard time after the Oscars. She wasn’t mad at me, I don’t think . . . she didn’t say she was mad at me for what happened . . . The critics were so nasty.” He also name-dropped the “Hatha-haters” too. It was… unpleasant. He didn’t really throw her under the bus, but he didn’t go out of his way to defend her or be a gentleman about it either (especially considering that more people hated HIM not her following the Oscars). So what does Anne think about Franco’s recent comments? According to Radar, she’s not pleased:

James Franco said Anne Hathaway wasn’t going to be happy that he was discussing their strained relationship during his interview with Howard Stern on Monday – and he was right! RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that the Spring Breakers actor’s chat with the shock jock didn’t go unnoticed by the Les Miserables star who is fuming that Franco has drudged up their past yet again in a radio interview.

Anne, 30, just can’t understand why James, 34, couldn’t just say “no comment.” Worse still, she thinks Franco was using her name just to help promote his latest movie!

“Anne can’t believe James has openly discussed the past and how they aren’t really on talking terms anymore,” a source tells Radar. “She thinks he did it purely to drum up publicity for Spring Breakers. But, as far as she’s concerned, James pulled an unprofessional move by talking about her during the interview with Howard Stern.

“Stern did provoke Franco, but he didn’t have to respond. And she couldn’t believe that he said he understands why people dislike her. Anne would never air her dirty laundry in public and is intensely private. It’s opened up old wounds, is totally unnecessary and she’s fuming,” the source reveals.

[From Radar]

Again, this is just coming from “sources”. I would assume that Anne probably is kind of pissed off at Franco, but she’s smart enough to realize that many people think Franco is a total douche, and his comments were off-side, so she doesn’t need to work to prove her point. I don’t believe Anne would suddenly claim (incorrectly) to be “intensely private” when she was shilling everything about herself for the sake of that Oscar. So… a mixed bag. My recommendations for Annie (who I still like, thank you very much): keep doing what you’re doing. Don’t comment. Stay out of the spotlight for a few more months and whenever you give your next interview, don’t cry or throw a tantrum. Own your nerdiness and theater-geekdom with humor and self-awareness. You’ll be fine!

PS… Is Adam wearing a lady’s coat?!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Warning! This story is a little bit disgusting but not in a conventional sense. Don’t worry, you won’t vomit or anything by reading it. Here’s what happened: James “AAART” Franco visited the “Late Show with David Letterman” because Franco is still promoting both Oz the Great and Powerful and Spring Breakers, and Dave is a great interviewer regardless of the subject at hand. I mean, you all know how I feel about James Franco, but this story (surprisingly) isn’t really about Franco.

Rather, Franco waltzed out to his interview, greeted Dave, and brought up the topic of Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine (Kids, Trash Humpers) to Dave, and then Franco inquired as to why his “good friend” had been banned from the show until infinity. Apparently, Franco had the wrong idea about the affair, and he harbored the impression that Korine was banned because he engaged in a throwdown with Meryl Streep. To Dave’s credit, he totally called out this nonsense to Franco and corrected the tale. The true version? In the late 1990s, Korine was scheduled to appear on the same episode as Meryl Streep, but Dave found Korine in Meryl’s dressing room. At the moment of discovery, Korine was rifling through Meryl’s purse! In response, Dave kicked him out, and Korine was banned for the forseeable future. Here is the video apparance of Franco’s relevant appearance on Letterman with details below the clip:

US talkshow host David Letterman has revealed he banned director Harmony Korine from The Late Show after finding him going through Meryl Streep’s purse backstage.

Korine appeared on Letterman in the late 90s, a period during which he was using crack and heroin and which saw two of his homes burn down in mysterious circumstances. The film-maker, who looks set to have the biggest hit of his career with the comedy thriller Spring Breakers, is now clean.

Korine’s friend, and the star of Spring Breakers, James Franco, appeared on Letterman on Monday night and asked the comic to finally reveal why the film-maker, whose trio of stumbling, half-cut appearances on The Late Show are legendary, had been asked not to return. The actor revealed his friend had told him he was banned for pushing Streep backstage, adding: “Harmony is a very sane guy now, a great artist and great person to work with, but I think he had a period where he was going a little off the rails, so maybe he was on something that night.”

Letterman then revealed the true story behind the incident in public for the first time. “I went upstairs to greet Meryl Streep and welcome her to the show, and I knock on the door … and she was not in there,” he said. “And I looked around, and she was not in there, and I found Harmony going through her purse. True story. And so I said: ‘That’s it, put her things back in her bag and then get out.’”

Letterman said he would now be happy to have the director, who completed rehab more than a decade ago, back on his show. Korine, who wrote the controversial film Kids for director Larry Clark at the age of 19, has described the period as a “crazy time” that he could not live through again. “I felt pretty debased and lost,” he told the Guardian in 2008. “I became like a tramp. I wasn’t delusional. I didn’t think I was going to be OK. I thought: ‘This might be the end.’ I’d read enough books. I knew where this story ended. The story finishes itself.”

[From Guardian]

I love Franco’s reaction at the end of the clip when he realizes that his friend snowed him under as to the true reason why he got banned from Dave’s show. Obviously, it’s commendable that Korine managed to wrestle free from the depths of crack and heroin addiction, but still, don’t lie to your friends and then subject them to finding out the truth on a late night talk show. Besides, who the hell messes with Meryl Streep without risking a universal blacklist? Harmony should just be thrilled that he managed to secure funding for his latest (bikini exploitation) movie.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN

After last year’s Oscars ceremony — which was disastrously hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway — it was widely speculated that after Franco had completely given up and phoned it in, Anne was (understandably) upset about having to carry the whole show. Indeed, Us Weekly spoke to a source who claimed the two hosts grew to “hate each other” during rehearsals, and that feeling continued throughout the live program itself. Then James threw a big post-show hissy fit and hopped on a plane to New York, thereby skipping his own after party because he was so upset about the entire affair. Because it wasn’t ART at all.

Now Franco, who is still inexplicably promoting Spring Breakers, has given an interview to Howard Stern, who wanted to know all about what Franco thought of Hathaway in light of both last year’s co-hosting debacle and this year’s Oscar-win backlash. As far as Franco’s answer is concerned, let’s just say the douche still shines through the feigned attempt at diplomacy. Oh, and he talks a little bit about turning down Lindsay Lohan’s offer for a blowie. Or something like that:

James Franco says he made up with Anne Hathaway after hosting the Oscars — but we’ll see if that lasts after his recent appearance on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show! The Spring Breakers actor was questioned by Stern on Monday, March 25 about his relationship with Hathaway after their highly-criticized 2011 Oscar hosting gig.

“I’m happy to revisit this, but you’re going to have to take the lead,” Franco, 34, warned Stern. “If you’re going to talk about it, you’re going to have to give your opinions . . . She does not want me talking about this, but okay.”

“Everyone sort of hates Anne Hathaway, and I’ve explained that I do too and I don’t know even know why sometimes,” Stern explained. “She’s just so affected [and] actress-y that even when she wins an award she’s out of breath, and then she has the standard joke that sounds like it’s [been] written [for her]. And it all seems so scripted and acted.”

“She comes off like the goody two-shoes actress and it’s just fun to sort of hate her,” the radio host added. “Hate is a strong word . . . but [I] dislike her, even though she is a great actress. Is that accurate?”

“I’m not an expert on — I guess they’re called ‘Hatha-haters’– but I think that’s what maybe triggers it,” Franco agreed.

“Are you still friendly with her?” Stern asked.

“We haven’t talked in a while,” the Oz the Great and Powerful actor admitted of his relationship with the now Oscar-winning actress. But he later added, “Anne and I made up, by the way. Let’s just get that on the record.”

“It was a really hard time after the Oscars,” Franco added. “She wasn’t mad at me, I don’t think . . . she didn’t say she was mad at me for what happened . . . The critics were so nasty.”

Franco also addressed reports that he turned down having sex with troubled actress Lindsay Lohan. “I don’t want to like brag about it,” he said. “I don’t know how that got out.”

“She was having issues even then, so you feel weird,” Franco explained. “Honestly, she was a friend. I’ve met a lot of people that are troubled and sometimes you don’t want to do that.”

What’s his relationship status now? “Let’s say I’m dating,” he shared. “I’m getting older. I would like a long-term relationship.”

[From Us Weekly]

Well, of course Lindsay probably offered to have sex with James. Doesn’t she basically offer the same to anyone who can get her a gig or possibly give her tax-free sums of money? This probably happened while James was shooting that arty REM video starring Lohan’s lips, and while he claims to have initially tried to save her from himself, I guess there’s some things that super multitasker James Franco can’t just can’t do in life.

Oh, and James also asked his grandma to make a video asking everyone to go see her brilliant grandson in Spring Breakers. Sorry grandma, but I’m gonna pass on that one.

Photos courtesy of NBC, Hollywood Reporter, and WENN

James Franco might very well be one of the most annoyingly pretentious actors on the planet with his manner of speaking in Petrarchian sonnets and tendency to declare his own butt to be “art,” but he did a decent thing that I’ll get to in just a bit. For the moment, however, I wanted to touch upon a recent Franco interview in which he admitted that the rumors concerning his sexuality are mostly his fault because he admits that he’s cultivated the resulting intrigue as “part of my public image.” Further, James has stirred the pot not only by playing gay characters in Howl and Milk but also by stating “Maybe I’m just gay” when asked.

For the record, I don’t think that James Franco is either gay or bisexual. Instead, I think he consistently manipulates his own image in his usual artsy-fartsy way, and he truly thinks that appearing sexually ambiguous will make him look like more of an artist. I think that Franco is totally straight and just messing with everyone, and if I were a gay man, I’d probably be at least a little bit offended.

Enough of my theories though, for James has gone and done something decent. If you’ll remember, Franco recently co-directed a movie called Interior. Leather Bar with Travis Mathews. The movie was a reimagining of gay S&M footage that was inspired by a so-called missing reel from 1980′s Cruising, and it didn’t make any waves at Sundance this year, but now Mathews has gone on to promote another movie featuring gay sex at several Aussie gay film festivals. Unfortunately, Australia has banned the film from even screening at these gay-leaning festivals due to sexual content, and Franco thinks this is utter crap. For once, the dude actually has a point:

James Franco is speaking out against Australia’s ban on I Want Your Love, the new gay-themed film directed by Travis Mathews.

In a new video originally posted by Out Magazine, Franco, who collaborated with Mathews on Interior. Leather Bar., calls the Australian Classification Board’s decision to yank the film from planned screenings at gay film festivals in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane “really silly” and “very short-sighted.”

Noting that “sex in films hasn’t had a chance to grow and become a sophisticated storytelling device,” Franco adds, “Frankly, adults should be able to choose … I don’t know why in this day and age, something like this…is being banned. It’s just embarrassing.”

According to its official website, I Want Your Love tells the story of a young gay man in San Francisco who prepares to return to his Midwestern roots. “Torn between his creative dreams and the reality of earning a living, he’s forced to take responsibility by redefining what it means to be an artist, a gay man, and an adult,” a synopsis reads.

Mathews served as co-director and screenwriter of Interior. Leather Bar., which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

“Every f–king love story is a dude that wants to be with a girl, and the only way they’re going to end up happy is if they walk off into the sunset together,” Franco told Entertainment Weekly before the premiere of his film. “I’m f–king sick of that s–t. So if there’s a way for me to just break that up in my own mind, I’m all for it.”

[From HuffPo]

Here’s a video clip of Franco’s statement on Australia’s ban of Travis Mathews’ film. Franco is clearly sticking up for his friend and co-director here, but he also speaks some common sense. How strange for James Franco to open his mouth without trying to make himself sound like the smartest man in the universe!

Photos courtesy of WENN

Here are some photos of James Franco, Mila Kunis, and Michelle Williams at the Moscow photocall for Oz the Great and Powerful. Yes, Franco has tucked his jeans into his combat boots. That’s the artistic way to wear combat boots, don’t you know? Poor Mila and Michelle are like, “Ugh, this douche” — see how Mila is leaning away from him? Mila even has her own douche at home, so the fact that she’s unconsciously shrinking away from the Franco really says something. But both girls both look pretty cute. I think Mila’s grey, ruched dress would have looked a lot better without all of those front, lateral ruffles that are a bit much, but the animal-print shoes are an interesting addition. Michelle’s wearing a black Victoria Beckham getup, which is deceptively intricate with a suit-like top and a three-tiered skirt. She looks fresh and great here.

That’s not the real story though. Franco has taken the peroxide plunge in a very bad way. Take a closer look:

Pretty bad, right? I hope this new change is for a role. A lot of you begrungingly admit to finding James hot, but does he still do it for you while looking like your friendly neighborhood meth dealer? It honestly looks like he’s been hitting the Sun-In pretty hard and didn’t get the bleach job done at a professional salon. Like, he probably got stoned off his ass and decided to make his head into an art exhibit. Not pretty.

Here’s a few photos of Franco acting as Grand Marshal for the Daytona 500 on Sunday. I’ll be he turned that little, unassuming race into a work of pure art.

Photos courtesy of WENN

The insufferable James Franco covers the March issue of Details to promote two of his upcoming projects, Oz: The Great and Powerful and Spring Breakers. These two movies — a $200 million-budgeted Disney film and an indie flick designed to exploit post-Disney starlets — perfectly summarize the dichotomy of wacky artiste Franco.

The Details cover is rather unremarkable, the photoshoot makes him look like a 1970s pr0n star, and the interview is typical Franco meta-nonsense. For the vast majority of this five-page article, Franco flits to various locations without saying hardly anything while the poor journo is left to summarize Franco’s pseudo-illustrious career in several different disciplines. At one point, a list is actually constructed to display all of Franco’s accomplishments, and mention is made that he often burns the proverbial midnight oil and falls asleep on his film sets just like he falls asleep in class. Overall, the piece frames “Being James Franco” as the toughest role in the world to fulfill. At one point, Franco even starts answering questions in quatrains of Petrarchan sonnets. Seriously:

He’s realized the power of Being Franco: “As soon as I embraced it — like all of us, essentially play ourselves, to some extent — it gave me this incredible energy.”

Do his good looks diminish his work?
“I accept what I am, on the inside and out. I love me.
But I also know that me is something other than me;
A figure that is created by forces outside me. That me
Is a me I can f–k with, and in that way I’m new, I step
Aside and rearrange the parts of the old me, the Spiderman-
Ginsberg-Pineapple-Freak into something else: the Fairy King.”

A reminder of how profilic he is at 1,500 different things: “I’d become incredibly frustrated staying in the lines of my job description as an actor. I was making it hard, not only on everyone else, but on myself as well.” In the six years since he quit being a movie star, enrolled in UCLA, and majored in English, he has
* done M.F.A. work in five graduate schools: Columbia and Brooklyn College for fiction, NYU for film, Warren Wilson for poetry, and Rhode Island School of Design for digital arts
* published a half-dozen books
* exhibited in about as many museums and galleries
* appeared or collaborated on a dozen gay-themed projects, including appearances in drag, leading to great confusion about his sexuality
* taught in a widening number of universities, graduate programs, and acting schools
* written and/or directed numerous conceptual-art features and short films, as well as advertisements and a music video
* kept up the day job–indies, bit parts, cameos, and pseudo-cameos online and on TV (including Franco, the dashing and possibly homicidal conceptual artist on “General Hospital”)
* ascended to largely A-list roles: As Sean Penn’s lover in Milk and as Julia Roberts’ in Eat Pray Love. As the climber who escapes certain death in a Best Actor Oscar-nominated turn in 127 Hours and as the geneticist who dooms mankind in Rise of the Planet of the Apes . . .

Yet he secretly longs for stability: “I wish I could call New York home”–his first and only admission of the wear that all these jobs and 19-hour nonstop days must take on a body.

He can’t stop trying to do everything: He “fights sleep every night,” considering it “a defeat.”

Mila Kunis says he falls asleep on set: “We were at the end of a 17-hour day on Oz doing this carriage scene, with real horses. The set was so long they couldn’t turn the horses, so we’d just leave the set, circle, and reshoot. James just fell dead asleep after a take. I mean, nothing I could do would wake him up. We came around for a take, everybody saw, and they just kept the cameras rolling.”

[From Details]

The piece also goes into great detail about how Franco repeatedly deep-throats pistols at one point during Spring Breakers when Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens shove their guns into his mouth. Sounds like a really classy movie, right? I guess I just don’t understand AAART.

As for Franco’s insistence on doing all of his various endeavors at once to the point where he’s actually falling asleep on the job, well, maybe he should cut back just a little bit. After all, there’s no point in doing everything when you can’t do it even slightly well.

Here’s some photos of Franco at the Berlin film festival last weekend for the premiere of Lovelace, in which he plays a young Hugh Hefner. Naturally.

Photos courtesy of Details and WENN

Here are some photos of James “AAART” Franco at the LA Art Show on Jan 22 because, you know, he’s all about art, even his butt. At the moment, James is sort of promoting his Sundance-premiered film, Interior. Dark Leather, which is documentary that “recreates” what supposedly happened during the off-reel, gay pr0n moments of the Al Pacino-starrer, Cruising. For what it’s worth (and I think it’s a lot), Pajiba’s Amanda Mae Meyncke didn’t enjoy the flick at all, but I’m sure that Franco would counter that she just didn’t comprehend his genius. Because, you know, his work only attracts criticisim from “superficial critics“ who don’t like Franco “because [he] was in Spiderman.” Speaking of the famed web-slinging franchise, Franco has made it quite clear that he is in no way a fan of the reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. The worst thing about Franco’s delusions? Other than Oz the Great and Powerful, James has nine other films in various stages of development and another six in development. So Hollywood has bought into his nonsense, and here are the details of Franco’s “smackdown” of the latest Spidey flick:

It seems Spider-Man alum James Franco isn’t too keen about the recent relaunch of the web-slinging franchise starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone.

In an interview with MTV News, Franco (who played Peter Parker’s frenemy Harry Osborn in the series) is asked to share his thoughts on director Marc Webb’s follow up to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. His response was not exactly positive.

“Ehhhhh,” answered Franco with hesitation. “They could have strayed a little bit more from the original… It was like, ‘Why?’”

Both Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man series spin the tale of Peter Parker’s journey to becoming NYC’s crime-fighting vigilante, but Franco appears to imply that the team behind the reboot failed to get to the heart of the beloved tale, opting instead for profit over perfection.

“I guess they made a lot of money. Congrats. Good for them. Sam and I moved on. We made Oz.”

[From ET Online]

Well, of course. If James Franco isn’t in the new Spider-Man reboot, then it cannot possibly be worth of the “AART” label, can it? Poor Franco just can’t handle the thought of the franchise going on without him in tow as the “New Goblin.” I bet he secretly fantasized about how the two versions of the franchise could go all “meta” by seamlessly integrating him into both halves. Now that would be “AART,” but since the franchise (in Franco’s eyes) is merely financially successful, then the fact that Franco has “moved on” supposedly speaks for itself. Never mind that he’s moved onto an entirely CGI-created mess in Oz the Great and Powerful. Obviously, I just don’t understand the Franco artistry.

In other gross Franco-related news, the guy promises that he’ll someday be willing to have literal sex on film but only “under the right circumstances.” Thankfully, Shia LaBeouf has already cornered that disgusting market for all of us.

Here are some photos of Franco (on Sunday) leaving Los Angeles County Museum of Art, of course. I have no idea if the pretty blonde was with him, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she was.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Selena Gomez covers the February issue of Nylon magazine to promote her role as one of the bikini-clad college girls who decide to rob banks (?) to fund a beach vacation in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers. I’ve posted the trailer at the bottom of this post, but first let’s talk about this Nylon cover. This magazine always has the worst covers, right? Always so busy with the colored, competing fonts and the dreadful clothing. Poor Selena cant be enjoying wearing a fringed basketball jersey that looks like it’s woven out of potholder material. The one editorial shot that’s been released isn’t quite as awful though. Here are some interview excerpts:

On fame: “I think [the paparazzi] are over me because I’m so boring[...] I get to Topanga Mall, and they’re like, ‘Why is she back at the same place?’”

On Spring Breakers: “It was my first audition in years. I definitely felt that with my first stepping-out role, I should choose something that I could understand a little more. I was really nervous, but Harmony took a chance with me. He said, ‘You live in this bubble, and I’m going to take you out of it, but you have to trust me.’”

Her BFF is still Taylor Swift: “We both experienced the same things at the same time. But we’ve never once talked about our industry. She just became the person I’d go to for an issue with my family or boyfriend. It’s so hard to trust girls, so I’m lucky to have her.”

A pre-breakup summary of her thing with Bieber: “I’m having fun. At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it’s a different lifestyle doesn’t change the meaning of what I’ve been raised on, which is fairy tales.”

[From Nylon]

Yeah, it sounds like Selena already had one well-heeled shoe out the relationship door when this interview took place. I really hope she and Bieber are done for good this time because she can do so much better. Speaking of Selena lowering herself, the first trailer from Spring Breakers is out, so let’s watch and discuss below.

Just when I thought James Franco couldn’t be more annoying, he has to double down on his K-Fed makeover with chrome teeth and a terrible accent. When he drawled, “Don’t be spishious,” I actually gave Kristen Stewart a run for her eye-rolling money. This movie looks pretty dreadful even though it’s not meant to be serious. Obviously, Harmony Korine has taken advantage of the fact that former Disney starlets would welcome the chance to don bikinis, wield weapons, and shed their good-girl images. Vanessa Hudgens has already been trying to shed her High School Musical roots for a few years, but it doesn’t look like this movie is going to help much. Unfortunately for her, making the transition from teen to adult actor also requires talent, which is definitely a problem area for Vanessa. She plays the fame game well, but she’s not much of an emoter. As for Selena, only time will tell, but I doubt that her desire to be taken seriously as an actress will be aided by Spring Breakers.

Photos courtesy of Nylon and Interview magazine