Seth Rogen has curt -response when asked about James Franco friendship

Seth Rogen prefers not to mention his past friendship with James Franco.

Four months after Franco, 46, told Amount At the Rome Film Festival as He thought their friendship had gone their wayRogen, 42, shared its hold of Franco’s comments in a new cover story with Esquire.

“Honestly, I absorb so little media that it really wasn’t on my radar,” Rogen said to the outlet when he asked how he felt “to have something so personal to be so public.”

According to the outlet, Rogen was clearly not surprised to get the question “, but he was” as clearly not satisfied with it. ”

“That’s all he wanna say about it,” Esquire reported.

Rogen and Franco had a long -term friendship and professional relationship that started when working together on the 1999 show Freaks and nerds Early in his career.

They then collaborated on various other projects, including Tapped (2007), Pineapple expressions (2008), This is the end (2013)The The interview (2014), Sausage party (2016) and The disasterist (2017).

Things apparently changed in 2018, when five women, four of whom were his actors, accused Franco of sexually inappropriate behavior on one Los Angeles Times Article.

Two of the four former students continued to Submit a mood of sexual misunderstanding Against Franco 2019, which was settled in 2021.

The same year, Rogen distanced in public from Franconarration The Sunday Times “What I can say is that I despise abuse and harassment and I would never cover or hide the documents from someone who does, or consciously put someone in a situation where they were around someone like it.”

On the question of the charges against Franco affected their friendship, Rogen said to the outlet, “I would say yes.”

“I don’t know if I can define it right now during this interview. I can say it, um, you know, it has changed many things in our relationship and our dynamics, ”Rogen said.

Franco confirmed in his conversation in October 2024 with Amount that the two had not kept in touch.

“I haven’t talked to Seth. I love Seth, we had 20 fantastic years together, but I guess it’s over,” Franco said. “And not because of lack of attempts. I have told him how much he thought to me.”

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