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
Will never ever watch a movie this douche nozzle is on… Ever!
Anything with Terry Richardson is automatically gross.
add Franco and it makes it toxic.
These two in combination are unbearable! Ugh! Go away!
This. Uncle Terry is disgusting. I fail to see Hollywood’s fascination with this man and his vile ways.
Terry Richardson will always equal revolting. And a slight variation on the exact same photo shoot every time (except maybe the Nicole Kidman monster truck shoot)
Good for her for clearly having boundaries and self-respect. I’m so thrilled someone posing for him does. It’s the only shoot I’ve seen of his that seems to have been shot by a human rather than an animal.
Meh. Still less irritating than a whinny Cumberbitch, neurotic Chris Evans and boring-ass Henry Carvill.
I’ll second that!
+2 And he looks kind of hot in these. I used to have an epic crush on him before he went all douchy and pasty.
I agree, but with the exception of Chris Evans-I adore his meltdowns.
Love Franco or hate him, he’s always entertaining. I would totally take acid and go to the planetarium with him.
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I suppose this is the best experiment one could come up with to determine if skeletons have a gag reflex.
Tha skeleton gaged before he was on Francos crotch.
Franco looks really hot here. Euugh I’m gross, I’ll show myself out. *sits in corner*
Ugh, I’m with you.
I hate myself for it, but I’ve always had a weird hate/love for him. I find him somehow captivating. I know he’s a douche but I’d be following him around like a puppy.
I can’t help but find the drag cover shoot that he did hot. I have a thing for guys in makeup anyway, but damn, he did it for me then
I’ll join the club. While I don’t find James particularly hot in this shoot, I always have some kind of indulgent affection for him; to me, he’s like the douchie guy who’s always pompously pontificating, but to whom you give a pass because he’s cute and silly and basically good in nature.
Yeah, I’m rationalizing like hell. Why, James?! Why do you have to be so douchie and force me to rationalize my crush?!
Oh, you forgot he’s also a model (and director for the ads…) for a brand of jeans.
I also wanted to share a really funny video I saw the other day with him and other rather cool actors (Swinton, Bardem, Portman, Damon, etc) and among them James Franco.
His part is hilarious, very “him” — even if a bit embarrassing to watch….
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html?_r=0
I actually liked him at first (Pineapple Express was funny) then he turned (or was) into a tremendous douchebag extraordinaire so yes James Franco you must be mocked! Lol! And Uncle Terry’s picture are always creepy and porny. 😉
Is that what a hipster is? Like a Seth Rogan Jonah Hill liking guy?
Sounds like I know a lot of people who hate hipsters while not knowing they ARE hipsters. Like, a lot of people like those guys and hate hipsters.
People use that term so much I couldn’t define one, personally. My working theory is that “hipsters” are any group of people someone hates that don’t already have a clique title.
I personally wouldn’t consider Rogen and Hill et al as hipsters. Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill are staples in mainstream comedy films and the hipsters dislike the mainstream or see it as ‘lesser’.
Hipsters are people who are all about high art. That would be fine on it’s own if hipsters weren’t so obnoxious and sanctimonious about how artsy and brilliant they are or artsy and brilliant their taste is. Franco is a hipster because he treats everything he does as high art even if it’s a blockbuster film (like This is the End is) or a soap opera.
Seth Rogen isn’t a hipster. I think he just wants to make a big dumb movie about real life celebrities facing the apocalypse.
Oh good. I thought I had finally grasped the concept…
Anyway, I like your description better than mine because this means I don’t know any real-life hipsters. 😉
I watched Freaks & Geeks before I knew what a d-bag he was and had a total crush on him. no more!
Gross. Just gross. Both the pictures and this douche.
Can you imagine dating either one of these immature, untalented (how in the world is either one of them famous) man children? shudder!
What dumbass at GQ green-lighted Franco to cover “The Comedy Issue”? Realize it’s all about timing and he has a movie coming out but Franco and comedy? Ummm…no. Regarding Richardson – I am no prude. I enjoy an exciting, provocative photo shoot and if humor can be portrayed, all the better. Richardson is none of this – he’s vile, dull, uninteresting and monotonous. He’s a common sleazy, dodgy, perv with a camera who’s gotten lucky with opportunity, timing and the depravity that Hollywood offers him.
I would never spend a penny or a second of my time watching anything this douchebag is in.
I feel bad for the skeleton.
How has Terry Richardson succeeded as a photographer? I’m a mere amateur when it comes to photography, and I can get better results than him.