James Franco Admits He Watched Live Man-On-Man Sex As Part Of His Acting Research

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Call me old fashioned. Or call me a cynic. But I just think some actors use “researching a role” as an excuse to downplay some of the questionable activities they engage in while in pursuit of their “art.”

Take what James Franco told James Lipton during an interview for Inside the Actors Studio for example. Franco spoke of the time when, researching a role, he actually ended up watching a gigolo have sex with a man. In person.

“I found this guy that was kind of a perfect model,” Franco explained. “He claimed to service both males and females. He took me on one of his jobs.”

At the time, Franco was researching the role of a male prostitute which he was to play in 2002’s Sonny. So he followed the real-life male gigolo role model into a strip club to talk and things went in a different direction than Franco says he had planned.

The gigolo’s friend came over to them and said, ” ‘Oh, you wanna play a prostitute? You want some real research? Then come with us.'” Franco continued: “It went down. Everything went down, as you see in the movies and hear about. The eerie thing is, it was like a movie, but it wasn’t a movie. It was the real thing, happening in front of me.”

I don’t know–I just don’t buy it. If it were really eerie, couldn’t he just have walked away and sacrificed his research instead of staying and risk becoming a mere voyeur? I mean, really, how much real-life experience was needed anyway for Sonny, a Rated-R movie? I now wonder what Julia Roberts had to do to prepare for her role in Pretty Woman. To each his own I guess.
Watch Franco tell the whole story himself and tell me what you think.


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