James Franco Is BlackBook Bold
Thursday Dec. 4, 2008
The 30-year-old actor, who plays the lover of Harvey Milk (
Sean Penn) in
Gus van Sant’s highly biopic
Milk, speaks candidly about his career and his studies at Columbia and NYU.
Franco, who wrote directed and starred in 2005’
Ape, a film about a closeted gay writer, discussed playing another gay character in
Milk:
On working with Sean Penn: “After we wrapped up Milk, Sean Penn said to me, ‘I’m going to have to break up with you now.”
On his fave NYC hang-outs: “
Bungalow 8,
Smith and Mills and
Chanterelle.”
On his outlook on gay relationships: “As soon as I got out of high school, I was like, I don’t care if anybody’s gay. It doesn’t matter. Doing
Milk, I don’t know if it broadened my mind at all. I like to think that I was as open as I could be at that point.”