That is the tip.
Seth Rogen has responded to James Franco just lately revealing that their yearslong friendship ended after the latter confronted a number of allegations of sexual misconduct.
Franco spilled the beans on the present standing of his relationship with Rogen throughout an October interview with Selection. “No. I haven’t talked to Seth. I love Seth, we had 20 great years together, but I guess it’s over,” Franco advised the outlet. “And not for lack of trying. I’ve told him how much he’s meant to me.”
The remarks, nevertheless, don’t appear to have made a lot of an affect on Rogen.
In a brand new Esquire profile printed on Tuesday, Rogen was requested the way it felt “to have something so personal become so public.” The interviewer, Dave Holmes, famous that the “Long Shot” star was “clearly not surprised to get the question” however was “just as clearly not happy about it.”
“Honestly, I absorb so little media that it really wasn’t on my radar,” Rogen mentioned about Franco’s feedback.
Holmes then added, “That is all he wants to say about that.”
Rogen and Franco got here up collectively in Hollywood, first appearing on the short-lived ’90s teen sitcom “Freaks and Geeks.” The pair hit it large with 2008’s stoner comedy “Pineapple Express” and made different motion pictures collectively, together with “This Is the End,” “The Interview” and “The Disaster Artist,” which was Franco’s 2017 directorial debut. The Oscar-nominated movie was their final on-screen collaboration.
In 2018, Franco confronted allegations of sexual misconduct, which had been leveled at him by a number of college students from his former appearing faculty. Franco’s former pupils accused the actor of intimidating them into sexual conditions. The “127 Hours” star denied the claims and, in February 2021, settled a lawsuit introduced in opposition to him by his accusers.
Months later, in Might, Rogen acknowledged that he regretted feedback he had made in 2018, shortly after the allegations of Franco surfaced that he would work together with his buddy and frequent co-star once more.
“I also look back to that interview in 2018 where I comment that I would keep working with James, and the truth is that I have not and I do not plan to right now,” Rogen advised UK outlet The Occasions.
Requested whether or not their private relationship was over, the “Superbad” star responded, “Erm, I don’t know if I can define that right now during this interview. I can say it, um, you know, it has changed many things in our relationship and our dynamic.”
When the interviewer famous that the state of affairs “must have been painful,” Rogen was fast to answer, “Yeah. But not as painful and difficult as it is for a lot of other people involved. I have no pity for myself in this situation.”
