James Franco: 'Sony hack made me sick'
The actor said his
health was affected by the fallout from the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, who
were targeted thanks to Franco’s film The Interview
James Franco has said that the furore around his
comedy The Interview, which prompted a
devastating hack on Sony Pictures and threats of terrorism against US cinemas,
affected his health.
“There was this pressure. There was so much attention
on it — attention on a level you never expected. It was a shock to my system,
and I got sick,” he said. “But I was never scared for my safety or anything.”
In The Interview, Franco plays a blowhard talk
show host, chaperoned by his producer played by Seth Rogen – the pair are hired
by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un after the pair secure an interview with
the North Korean leader. The storyline angered a hacking group linked to the
country, who leaked a vast amount of data from Sony, and whose terror threats
caused the film to be pulled from cinemas. It has since been successful via
on-demand services and a small theatrical release in independent cinemas,
earning $45m.
Franco added: “It was a situation where there was
nothing for me to do to. As soon as they called the press off, and the movie
was pulled from theatres, there was nothing to do. They weren’t looking to me
to make any decisions. It was just sitting around and staying quiet.”
His comments came in an interview about his new
film I Am Michael, directed by Justin Kelly and executive produced by Gus Van
Sant, which has premiered at the Sundance film festival. It’s the true story of
Michael Glatze, a gay rights campaigner who renounced his sexuality and turned
to Christianity. Franco met with Glatze at the premiere, and said that: “I
think the movie has helped him release some of these extreme views that
basically gays are sinners. And that it’s helped him heal a little bit and
maybe showed him that just because he doesn’t want to identify as gay doesn’t
mean he has to completely destroy or condemn everything about gay lifestyles.”
On a threesome scene between Franco, Zachary Quinto
and Charlie Carver, Franco said: “I can’t even remember what happened. I think
I was going for it more than they were.”
Reviewing the film for the Guardian at Sundance,
Jordan Hoffman wasn’t particularly taken with it: “It feels as if it’s hewing
too close to both an agenda and the truth of the story, instead of exploring
the emotional and intellectual truths that lie beneath it... [it] is fatally
unsure of its own identity.”
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