and so it is

James Franco Comes Out. As Straight

Sure, I’d tell you if I was. I guess the reason I wouldn’t is because I’d be worried that it would hurt my career. I suppose that’s the reason one wouldn’t do that, right? But no, that wouldn’t be something that would deter me. I’m going to do projects that I want to do. Everyone thinks I’m a stoner, and some people think I’m gay because I’ve played these gay roles. That’s what people think, but it’s not true. I don’t smoke pot. I’m not gay. But on another level, there’s something in me that is able to play roles like that in a way that’s convincing.”

—James Franco, finally putting to bed rumors he is a homogay, which apparently having a long-time girlfriend, Ahna O’Reilly, didn’t do [via]

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By: JD
On: Sep 9, 2010
Tagged: Celebs, Coming Out, James Franco

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No. 1 · MM
Nice try, James!

Sep 9, 2010 at 3:10 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 2 · Black Pegasus
James, just shut up and let me eat your ass.

Sep 9, 2010 at 3:25 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 3 · David Ehrenstein
I’ve got dibs on his ass!

Sep 9, 2010 at 3:32 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 4 · T-in-Cali
if this is true, i have no reason to live anymore

Sep 9, 2010 at 3:55 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 5 · PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS · Member · 1696 comments
@MM:
@David Ehrenstein:

sorry boys, look closely I already have my initials tatooed on his butt…….. :p

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SQsz5CuxQac/SKTKreXYq3I/AAAAAAAACzM/xD2OVTumzgQ/s400/james_franco_naked.jpg[/img]

Sep 9, 2010 at 3:56 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 6 · PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS · Member · 1696 comments
@Black Pegasus: Meant you not MM :p

Sep 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 7 · Soupy
This is ridiculous. We must take turns.

Sep 9, 2010 at 4:07 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 8 · 7
Fine, he can be gay, just give us Sufjan Stevens/Joseph Gordon-Levitt and we’ll call it even.

Sep 9, 2010 at 4:27 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 9 · 7
Fine, he can be straight, just give us Sufjan Stevens/Joseph Gordon-Levitt and we’ll call it even.

Sep 9, 2010 at 4:28 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 10 · Soupy
Can you throw in an Alexander Skarsgard?

Sep 9, 2010 at 4:48 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 11 · James Davis
I might have believed him if he hadn’t also said he doesn’t smoke pot. That was just a step too far away from believability so how can I believe the rest.

Sep 9, 2010 at 5:42 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 12 · jason
Maybe he’s bi. He didn’t deny that, now did he?

Sep 9, 2010 at 5:54 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 13 · ewe
Notice how he correlates drug use with homosexuality. No different and no more enlightened than Newt Gingrich. I agree with the other commenters. Shut the fuck up James Franco. Few gay people and all straight people do not have closets to come out of. Belittling jackass.

Sep 9, 2010 at 6:10 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 14 · 4starmovie · Member · 1 comments
I quit that bitch…moving on to Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
[img]http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Jeffrey_Dean_Morgan/jeffrey_dean_morgan_and_comedian_image_from_watchmen__2_.jpg[/img]

Sep 9, 2010 at 6:15 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 15 · Ian
@4starmovie: You saw the pics of where Jeffrey was playing ass-grab with Gerard Butler (a rumored bisexual)?

Any way I want to give James the 12-pack test. I’ll have one, he can have 11, then we’ll see just how straight he really is ;)

Sep 9, 2010 at 6:41 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 16 · hephaestion
Franco never set my gaydar off in the least.

He is, however, one hell of a wonderful, beautiful, sexy, and brilliant man.

Sep 9, 2010 at 8:10 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 17 · alan brickman
Just because he’s straight doesn’t mean he won’t have sex with guys…lots of straights check it out you know…..

Sep 9, 2010 at 8:48 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 18 · alan brickman
he’s comfortable with gays…NOW DON’T SCARE HIM AWAY BITCHES!!!

Sep 9, 2010 at 8:49 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 19 · alan brickman
YOU’VE SEEN THE TRACKS MARKS…he doesn’t smoke pot for sure…..

Sep 9, 2010 at 8:50 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 20 · Sam
I believe he’s straight a helluva lot more than I believe he doesn’t smoke pot…

Sep 9, 2010 at 9:39 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 21 · drums
Is he really seriously not a stoner in real life? He must be even more of an amazing actor than I gave him credit for, because I find it almost impossible to wrap my mind around that.

Sep 9, 2010 at 10:42 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 22 · D'oh, The Magnificent
@Sam: Ditto.

He should have stopped with the “not gay.”

“I don’t smoke pot” throws the whole “not gay” into question.

Sep 9, 2010 at 11:57 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 23 · 7
@D’oh, The Magnificent: He played a drug dealer in a movie, and he’s played gay men in movies. He was simultaneously addressing two assumptions people might have of him. He’s not comparing being gay to drug use.

Seemed pretty simple to me.

Sep 10, 2010 at 12:01 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 24 · D'oh, The Magnificent
@7:

Do I need to explain that I was making a joke about smoking pot ?

Okay, fine!

I don’t care what movies he’s been in. I haven’t seen his pot head movies. I thought he was a pot head even before I saw him in a movie. Its his vibe. When I first saw him, I thought he had been type cast. That’s just his vibe.

My analogy was about overall believability if one doesn’t believe one of his statements. Thus, the joke.

I could have believed he’s not gay. But I don’t believe he doesn’t smoke MJ. The fact he mentioned the MJ threw the “not gay” part into question. He should have stuck with “not gay.”

Get the joke? If he had stopped at “not gay” he would have gotten away with the interview being believable.

Its the overkill of the PR statement that’s funny. “I am really not what people think I am” He may indeed not be gay. But again, I do not believe he’s not token some weed.

It would be like me saying “I am not gay. And, I never drank juice either.” Is it possible I never drank juice? Sure. Believable? Not so much. Same with this cat, and pot smoking.

You must be fun at parties when it comes to light banter.

Sep 10, 2010 at 1:06 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 25 · Aplus
Ha ha…i guess my gaydar was also off…

Sep 10, 2010 at 6:24 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 26 · Blaine Ward
Anyone over hear of damage control??? The fact that he feels the need to make a statement of this sort indicates he has something to hide. Anybody with a brain knows that a straight and secure person does not feel the need to defend himself.

Sep 10, 2010 at 7:45 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 27 · D'oh, The Magnificent
I am down rating the prudes and naive along the thread. I mean- its one thing to say maybe he’s straight. its another in each context a celeb says something to post how absolutely right they are as celebs.

Sep 10, 2010 at 1:21 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 28 · Mike
doesn’t anyone consider that he could be bi? so when he says he’s not gay, i believe him!! sexuality is fluid, there’s not just one end with gay and straight on the other…

Sep 10, 2010 at 4:03 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 29 · Ian
@Mike: I simply do not believe in bisexuality in men, women yes, men no. Women are capable of being more fluid, but in my 39 yrs of life it’s always been my experience and observation that men are simply hardwired one way or the other.

Sep 10, 2010 at 5:36 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 30 · D'oh, The Magnificent
@Mike: Sure. I would go for that. But that’s not what said. He said “not gay” and thus implying “totally straight.” this is the U.S. He knows what he is saying.

He knows enough having worked in pop culture what the implications of his words are. He’s certainly not an idiot from what I have seen since I started paying attention to him. So the emphatic way he says it and the way in which he adds that he strangely (again don’t believe this one) doesn’t smoke weed is suppose to add up to “he’s straight- totally straight.”

I don’t have a problem with someone coming out as bi. In fact, if that’s what they are, I would prefer that to saying straight or gay because that promotes maximum clarity. But that’s not what he did.

Sep 10, 2010 at 6:18 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 31 · Soupy
All that is important is the sweet, sweet things that he mutters in my ear when he is on top of me.

Sep 10, 2010 at 6:34 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 32 · Mysanthropic Destiny
Who cares. hes a good actor, a pleasure to look and and…utilize in imaginative scenarios, but that’s it. If hes straight hes straight. If he’s not he’s not. Its sad that such a non-issue gets such attention. I kinda default myself for even commenting, really.

Sep 12, 2010 at 3:34 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 33 · Mike
@Ian: your wrong, do you forget the Greeks, they all married and had children but still had a male lover on the side (who by the way also had his own family), it was part of their culture and was considered quite normal. Society today has made us believe as you say. Also see how glorification of female bisexuality is seen in the media, normality to fuel straight men’s lust and fantasy. Plus some women use the bisexual label to make them more popular, which is quite unfair for lesbians who have fought so much for their rights only for someone to come and make it look like a fad. Not the same for bi men, who are seen as cheating bastards hence the need for them to stick to either side of the scale. And bisexuality doesn’t mean that you are always attracted to both sexes equally, you could be bisexual and spend your life with a man or woman.

Sep 12, 2010 at 5:41 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 34 · Ben
@ewe: Franco is being smart…. he said he didn’t smoke pot???? LOLOLOLOL. he knows no one is going to believe that :) and he doesn’t intend anyone to believe the next sentence either.

Jan 14, 2011 at 12:37 am · @Reply · Flag