Actor James Franco predicts more rumors
that he's gay ahead of his fourth film in which he plays a gay
character.
The 33-year-old actor played bisexual
movie legend James Dean in the 2001 film James Dean. Seven
years later later in the biopic Milk
he played Scott Smith, the lover of slain gay activist and San
Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk. And in another biographical role,
he portrayed gay poet Allen Ginsberg in the film Howl.
All
that role playing – along
with posing in drag on the cover of transsexual magazine Candy
last year – has fueled
speculation that Franco himself might be gay or bisexual.
In an
interview with Playboy,
Franco predicts his latest film, The Broken Tower,
in which he plays gay poet Hart Crane, will fuel new speculation
about his sexual orientation.
“Some
more great rumors will be coming up,” Franco said.
“What
do you mean?” the Playboy
interviewer asked.
“I
have a film coming that I directed about the poet Hart Crane, and I
give a blow job in that movie,” Franco responded.
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Franco suggests he might be gay.)
The Broken Tower
screened last month at the Los Angeles Film Festival, but a release
date has yet to be announced.