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.
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He had a break out role on Freaks and Geeks that also had Seth Rogan and Jason Segel and Busy Phillips
LOL @ your post!
If you ever need a child actor let me tell you about one that is gold.
I have my television on all the time in the background because I am home all day.
One of the shows that comes on is Bold and the Beautiful. Lots of bad actors come on the show and lots of bad story lines.
But there is a fantastic six year old kid on that show that has really carried the story of having a crazy dad.
Casting kids seems to be a crap shoot but they really struck gold with that kid. Henry Joseph Samiri.
He was so good people on twitter got concerned that he might need counseling after going through that story line.
Good to know.
Tough racket, child acting.
Soap operas are a grind, even for adults...
I wonder if the “Larry Storch School of Acting” was any different?
But that would be too much like work.
I am not a prude and I love sex (only with my wife) but even when I was younger I always cringed when the nude scenes happened.
I have always said that if the acting and script were great then there would be no need for nudity as shown by so many old movies where, after the kiss,the scene would fade away and pick up after the "event."
Hollywood and almost all movies producers are just too lazy to write great scripts and hire actors who can really act.
Just looked at Blind Gossip’s site. Not sure how he gets his info but he did have this story back in 2017.
“Toni claims she was denied entry into a sex scenes master class”
And she says he didn’t let her engage in simulated sex scenes wearing a little plastic vagina guard, as is the industry standard.
This sweet little innocent waif. She was completely prepared for a simulated sex in class as long as she could put a tiny plastic cover over her vagina. A plastic cover small enough that she would otherwise appear naked on film.
“A well-placed kick to the offender’s nads is how you solve that problem.”
Yeah! What’s the world coming to when a woman can’t parade around in class bare naked except for some Saran Wrap over over her vag... and guys just -assume- she’s easy?
Isn’t it expected that young aspiring actresses strip and service the right people to advance their career?? What am I missing? The casting couch has been a staple of Hollywood since the beginning.
Not sure who he is, but he looks like a celebrity and is way too young for me to know who he is, but then again, I knew Real Stars, and just about all of them, sadly only a few are left.
I’ve never liked him. Thought he was smarmy first time I saw a movie of his - had never heard of him at the time.
James Franco is connected to her:
Here he is with her covering him with gold leaf. People on 8chan have speculated that this gold has significance in satanism:
I don't believe James Franco is just an ordinary pervert. He is somehow connected to Hollywood Satanists, and he seems to be high ranking (covered in gold). This is probably a front for recruiting girls into a far different group than acting. They need to check the every girl who signed up for these "classes" just to see if they are still alive and not missing.
“... a little plastic vagina guard, as is the industry standard.”
I’m a 67 years young, but I have to admit I never knew there was such thing.
Damn, I learn more things on FR than anywhere else.
Wrong forum for airing your fetishes.
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