Old students from the school that the American actor had developed in Hollywood had denounced inappropriate behaviors in 2018.
Le Monde with AFP
This is the first time it has been speaking on the subject since 2018. The American actor James Franco, accused of sexual harassment by several women, acknowledged having had “granted” relations with his students. drama course and estimated that it should not have happened.
Among the acclaiming of Franco, today 43 years old, are four former students of the school he had developed in Hollywood. they had publicly denounced inappropriate behaviors of the actor in 2018 , after the latter received his Golden Globe by arborous at the buttonhole a Pin’s supporting the Time’s Up defense of victims of sexual assault.
“Listen, I admit, I slept with students,” said the artist during an interview broadcast Thursday on The radio Siriusxm , its first on the subject since 2018. “Through my teachings, I slept with students, and C ‘ was bad. But it’s not for that reason that I opened school, “he defends himself.
In particular, a student had told how she participated, with several other women, at a naked scene when Franco would have removed the plastic protective films covering the intimate parts of the actresses while playing simulated oral sex scenes.
“I should not have”
Two others had stated that the actor had asked them, as well as other actresses, to take off their highs during a shoot in a strip-tease club. One last finally assured that James Franco “always felt everyone that could have roles at stake if we were ready to play sexual acts or to remove our top”.
The artist and his lawyers have always refuted these accusations. In his interview, Franco once again denied having had relationships with students enrolled in a course entitled “Sex Scenes”. It ensures that the course had a “provocative title” but was not specifically intended to investigate participants on these erotic scenes. “It was not a Machiavellian plan on my part (…) But yes, there were cases where I had something consensual with a student and I should not have,” he says. ” / P>
For his defense, he mentioned his addiction to alcohol when he was a teenager, considering having replaced him in adulthood by an addiction to sex and his own celebrity. “I suppose at the time, I thought” if it is consensual, it’s ok, “he said, now recognizing that” it’s probably not cool “.