Nudity in Hollywood for a acting job?....................I'm shocked....
Posted on 10/03/2019 2:12:38 PM PDT by RummyChick
James Franco is being accused in a new lawsuit of pressuring his acting school students to get naked for auditions while he dangled promises of movie roles that rarely panned out.
The suit, filed by Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, says that both women were students at the L.A. branch of the Studio 4 school -- which Franco co-founded -- back in 2014. The women claim Franco, and other instructors, engaged in "inappropriate and sexually charged behavior toward female students." In docs, they claim Franco created "an environment of harassment and sexual exploitation."
According to the docs, Franco offered them roles in independent films he was producing or directing. Their issue is what they had to do got those roles. In the suit, they claim Franco blew off several film industry guidelines for nude scenes. For instance, they claim young and inexperienced female students were "routinely pressured to engage in simulated sex acts that went far beyond the standards in the industry."
For her part, Toni claims she was denied entry into a sex scenes master class because she had voiced uneasiness about how it was run.
Sarah says she did get into the class, and actually did land roles in Franco productions -- but was often required to shoot nude and/or sex scenes. In docs, she references one in particular -- an orgy scene -- where she claims Franco removed the plastic genital guards from "actresses' vaginas while he simulated oral sex on them."
The NY Times and NPR first reported the lawsuit, which the women are seeking to make a class action that would allow other Studio 4 students to join.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Ping.
Nudity in Hollywood for a acting job?....................I'm shocked....
In before someone chimes in to defend anti-Trumper Franco.
Another celebretard with a 2 digit IQ.
Here he is wearing a Times Up pin
The fact that such things exist is indicative of widespread depravity in the film industry.
Ernest Owens
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James Franco allegedly charged $750 for a sex scene master class where he requested that aspiring actresses send him audition tapes that they could no longer own the rights to while he and his male collaborators could view.
Oh no! An actor who is also a pervert? What a shock!
It goes back to at least Charlie Chaplin.
Probably back to Edison..................
Gee who would have thought that a drug addled actor who makes sophomoric films with crude adolescent humor would do something like this??
A well-placed kick to the offender’s nads is how you solve that problem.
Sounds like he was preparing the students for the reality of Hollywood.
But that would be too much like work.
A very good friend of mine made a movie with James Franco.
Said he was the most unprofessional actor he’d ever worked with. And a bad person.
My friend is a very, very good guy — very experienced, has made many great movies.
After what I heard, I put Franco on my “Do Not Hire” list.
I read the posted part of the article and all of the posts and I still don’t know who James Franco is.
If someone wants a career in the movies, one probably does need training in how to perform on the casting couch.
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