James Franco has admitted to using his fame “as a lure,” sleeping with students at his defunct acting school Studio 4 and being “completely blind to both “power dynamicsR…
has admitted to using his fame “as a lure,” sleeping with students at his defunct acting school Studio 4 and being “completely blind to both “power dynamics” and “people’s feelings” in his first in-depth interview on the sexual misconduct allegations against him, which surfaced in 2018.
When Cagle pressed Franco about a lawsuit surrounding his conduct at Studio 4, alleging he used the school “to create a pipeline of young women who would be subjected to his personal and professional sexual exploitation,” he maintained that he had “no master plan” to use the school for that purpose. He added that he “was not clear-headed” during the time he was sleeping with students and justified the behavior to himself as okay, given that it was “consensual.
He added that while “the natural human instinct” when “something like this happens” is “to just make it stop”—making his mea culpas immediately so that he could move on with his life and career—that would ultimately have been in service of no one. “What that doesn’t do is allow you to do the work and to look at what was underneath.
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