Franco demonstrates his "witnessing gay sex" face
James Franco takes acting seriously, and being a serious actor requires proving your commitment to the craft by doing things like gaining or losing 60 pounds, shaving off your eyebrows to play a cancer patient, or most importantly, research. People say Jane Goodall started as an actress preparing for a movie about apes who just took things a little too far. Franco was recently on Inside the Actor’s Studio talking about preparing for his role in Sonny, in which he plays a male prostitute. Naturally, he did this by hanging out with a gigolo. The gigolo serviced both men and women, and at one point during Franco’s research, sh*t got pretty real. Franco describes hanging out with the guy in the back of a strip club when the guy suddenly got a call. Get a call, slide down a pole — sounds just like being a fireman.
He says, ‘Oh, you’re playing a male prostitute? You wanna do some real research? Come with me right now.’ And I said, ‘Well I’m not gonna do anything…’ and he said, ‘Aw, this guy’s so coked out of his mind, he won’t even know you’re there. Just sit in the chair in the corner and take your shirt off and it’ll be fine.’”
In related news, that describes every note from a director Channing Tatum has ever received.
I have no problem with gay sex in theory, but if I had to witness it first hand, I’d like to imagine I’d do it wearing a rain coat and holding up a plastic sheet like sitting in the front row at a Gallagher concert.
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When you date a Japanese sex pillow, you really can’t judge other people’s sex lives.
Gil Hicks: “Well..?! Did he cum, or what?!”
David Lee Roth researched his role as a gigolo by slowly ruining a band.
Don’t worry, Franco, he’s so cokes out of his mind that he won’t recognize you jerking off in the corner.
cokes is how those people use the past-tense.
Hey girl, they call me the giggle-o, ha ha.
The only preparation Rob Schneider did was to first come up with a name that rhymed with “Male Gigolo” and then prove he could pull it off by blowing Adam Sandler.
Richard Gere just inserted a gerbil and looked terse.
That mustache implies he did more than watch.
I sincerely suspect that if I were forced to choose between being a shirtless close-quarters witness to a male-on-male sexual encounter or having to sit in the front row at a Gallagher “performance”, I would choose the gay sex. The way I see it, with the fucking, at least someone’s having a good time.
Julia Roberts prepared for her role in Pretty Woman by watching a horse banging.
Dammit Chino! I was working on a horse wearing heels and sunglasses joke. F*ck.
There comes a point when the public stops believing you were tricked here and I think Franco’s way beyond that. At this point, he’s like a lonely girl walking around the park at night in pre-ripped clothes loudly proclaiming that nobody’s expecting her to be anywhere and that she has a medical condition that makes it impossible for her to scream, no matter how hard her wrists are being held down.
That banner pic looks more like Franco doing his impression of Mancini on IFC.
Charlie Sheen prepared for his role on Two & A Half Men by fucking John Cryer and that black midget from Bad Santa.
HURRR I’M-A MAKE-A DA JOKES NOW!
Dustin Hoffman still gets phantom pain in his nub whenever he thinks about what he did to prepare for his role in ‘Hook’.
Did he prepare for his role in 127 Hours by watching a male gigolo get fucked by Brett Ratner? If he finishes on top you either have to chew off a limb or wait it out until the breakfast buffet opens.
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….while sporting a “totally ready for gay sex” mustache.
Ironic, no?
I wasn’t aware Franco and Tarantino worked together.
I’m sure there was a mirror involved in this viewing.
If I was an AIDS researcher I’d say “Wanna do some REAL research?” all the fucking time.