{"id":3475,"date":"2026-06-14T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/06\/14\/seth-rogen-says-he-hasnt-talked-to-james-franco-in-a-long-time-reluctant-to-delve-into-friendship-status-the-nuance-of-it-is-too-personal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T03:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:26:00","slug":"seth-rogen-says-he-hasnt-talked-to-james-franco-in-a-long-time-reluctant-to-delve-into-friendship-status-the-nuance-of-it-is-too-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/06\/14\/seth-rogen-says-he-hasnt-talked-to-james-franco-in-a-long-time-reluctant-to-delve-into-friendship-status-the-nuance-of-it-is-too-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen Says He Hasn\u2019t Talked to James Franco \u201cin a Long Time,\u201d Reluctant to Delve Into Friendship Status: \u201cThe Nuance of It Is Too Personal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tSeth Rogen<\/a> and James Franco<\/a> spent years as friends and close collaborators on the short-lived TV show Freaks and Geeks<\/em> and movies like Pineapple Express, This Is The End, The Disaster Artist<\/em> and The Interview<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\tBut after Franco was hit with numerous allegations of sexual misconduct in 2018, Rogen has said he has no plans to work with him again. And his approach hasn\u2019t changed. <\/p>\n

\tStill Rogen was asked about his relationship with Franco in a recent interview with The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, and he indicated the situation is complicated. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cI honestly think the nuance of it is too personal for me to get into right now,\u201d Rogen said. \u201cIt is a very personal thing. There\u2019s the public-facing side of it, which I\u2019ve spoken about, and I have the same stance publicly that I\u2019ve had, and I think the proof is in the pudding \u2014 I have not worked with him in years. But the personal side of it is just so nuanced, and it involves people that I don\u2019t know if I should be dragging into this. I don\u2019t know what I would benefit from getting deeply into it. Nothing has changed since the last time I talked about all this, and I haven\u2019t worked with him in a really long time and I have no plans to.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tAs for whether he\u2019s in touch with Franco, Rogen said that he hasn\u2019t talked to him \u201cin a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIn 2021, Rogen told the U.K. Times<\/em> that he doesn\u2019t plan to work with Franco again despite saying he would in 2018 after the accusations against Franco first emerged.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI \u2026 look back to that interview in 2018 where I comment that I would keep working with James, and the truth is that I have not and I do not plan to right now,\u201d he told the Sunday Times Magazine<\/em>.\u00a0 \t<\/p>\n

\tStill he conceded the allegations against Franco have affected their friendship, but he couldn\u2019t say if that meant they were no longer friends.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI don\u2019t know if I can define that right now during this interview,\u201d he said. \u201cI can say it, um, you know, it has changed many things in our relationship and our dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tElsewhere in his interview with the NY Times<\/em>, Rogen opened up about the \u201cincredibly sad\u201d experience of losing his Studio <\/em>co-star Catherine O\u2019Hara, who died earlier this year from a pulmonary embolism after a brief battle with rectal cancer.<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe started to hear she was sick,\u201d he said. \u201cAs we were nearing the second season, we would talk to her and she really wanted to come back. Honestly, in the back of our heads we were like, We hope she can, but we don\u2019t know if she\u2019ll be able to. So it is this very sad thing where, creatively, in the back of your mind, you\u2019re making contingency plans but you don\u2019t want to think about it. But your brain is kind of telling you one thing and you\u2019re trying not to believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe recalls learning of her death the first week of filming season two of The Studio<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt was really, really sad. We were all together, the whole crew, and everyone loved her very much,\u201d he says. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know what to do, and we just kept shooting. I think the idea of making each other laugh and being together felt preferable to anything else we could have done that day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tRogen told the U.K. Times<\/em> in April that he and The Studio<\/em> team are \u201cacknowledging\u201d her death with co-creator Evan Goldberg calling dealing with her absence an \u201cunbelievable challenge.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tTeasing season two to the NY Times<\/em>, Rogen said it was \u201cfar more ambitious than the first season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere have been many times I\u2019ve been on set this season and been truly amazed \u2014 in a way that has offered me a lot of gratification and pride \u2014 in what we\u2019ve been able to pull off and the people we\u2019ve been able to talk into doing the show,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve watched the episodes, and I really feel as though I\u2019m pushing myself more and more creatively. I\u2019m in the middle of it right now, but I\u2019m excited and nervous for people to see it. We tried to up our game, and there are moments where I really feel like we are doing something that I\u2019m very proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tOne thing, though, that viewers shouldn\u2019t expect see on The Studio<\/em>, though, is romance, Rogen revealed.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cTruthfully I haven\u2019t made a romantic thing in a long time. It\u2019s not that creatively interesting to me to show two people falling in love. When we were first coming up, every movie had a romantic story line or, like, conflict between the main couple that had to be resolved,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re making \u201cThe Studio\u201d now, which has no romantic story lines on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seth Rogen and James Franco spent years as friends and close collaborators on the short-lived TV show Freaks and Geeks and movies like Pineapple Express, This Is The End, The Disaster Artist and The Interview. But after Franco was hit with numerous allegations of sexual misconduct in 2018, Rogen has said he has no plans to work with him again. And his approach hasn\u2019t changed. Still Rogen was asked about his relationship with Franco in a recent interview with The New York Times, and he indicated the situation is complicated. \u201cI honestly think the nuance of it is too personal for me to get into right now,\u201d Rogen said. \u201cIt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1059,255,381,741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","category-james-franco","category-lifestyle","category-lifestyle-news","category-seth-rogen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}