James Franco says he has been “doing a lot of work” on himself — almost four years of it, in fact — since former students at his Studio 4 film school accused him of sexual misconduct and harassment
James Franco Photo: Target Presse Agentur Gmbh/Getty Images Buckle up. It appears actor James Franco has been “doing a lot of work” on himself — almost four years of it, in fact — since former students at his Studio 4 film school accused him of sexual misconduct and harassment.
After all this internal excavation, is he willing to own up to the allegations the Los Angeles Times published in early 2018 that he had promised career opportunities in exchange for female students’ participation in sex acts and explicit scenarios, specifically in his “Sex Scenes” class? That, to quote from a lawsuit two of those students brought in 2019 , he had tried to “create a pipeline of young women who would be subjected to his personal and professional sexual exploitation”? Not quite.
But like I said, it’s not why I started the school, and I wasn’t the person that selected the people to be in the class. So it wasn’t a ‘master plan’ on my part. But yes, there were certain instances where, you know what, I was in a consensual thing with a student, and I shouldn’t have been. As Cagle notes, many listeners may understand a relationship between an established actor-slash-producer and a person paying to learn from him to be inherently imbalanced. One party clearly holds the leverage in that scenario, skewing the concept of true consent. How was Franco not aware of that dynamic, Cagle asked? “At the time, I was not clearheaded, as I’ve said,” Franco explained. “So I guess it just comes down to my criteria was like, If this is consensual, like, I think it’s cool.
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