Book trailers are all the rage these days.
Modern authors have been reduced to squeezing their entire novel into several minutes of a cheeky advertisement to appeal to the kind of media-obsessed children that fear their life will end when their iPhone dies; the same kind that also believe YouTube is a news source and articles can be fully digested by quickly reading the headline.
Itâs a cutting-edge new platform thatâs both exploration of the future and an ode to the past. A truly deep way of connecting with and touching the lives of people around the world. Incredibly artistic. Groundbreaking, even. Naturally, James Franco is on board.
The noted heterosexual appears in a new book trailer for Gary Shteyngartâs âLittle Failureâ with Rashida Jones, David Ebershoff, and sexy Girls staple Alex Karpovsky this week, where he plays the unprecedented role of a gay man kissing another man. Shocking! Iâm so enlightened!
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If you watch the trailer above, you wonât learn much about Gary Shteyngart or his new memoir. Thatâs because this four minute trailer is mainly about James Franco and his brave decision to accept a role as a man kissing another man, or in this case, Gary Shteyngartâs husband. Clothed in a pink plush robe, he alsoâgaspâholds Gary Shteyngartâs hand.
This is not the first time multimedia artist/poet/director/actor/comedian/guru James Franco has kissed another man. Let us not confuse this kiss with the time he kissed himself:
âŚor Sean Penn:
âŚor Michael Shannon:
âŚor Seth Rogan:
âŚor Akiva Schaffer:
âŚor Aaron Tveit:
âŚor David Letterman:
âŚor Will Forte:
âŚor Bill Hader:
âŚor Ryan Gosling (but not really):
jimbryant
A lot of these kisses look fake and semi-comedic. Maybe James is stringing us along and playing with our emotions, our need for validation.
Tyler100
Blahblahblah celebrities are fake Blahblahblah I hate celebrities and gays Blahblahblah I’m JimBryant.
TellurideGay
James Franco is kinda hot đ
sejjo
Oh James, where’s my kiss??