James Franco says Seth Rogen friendship is ‘over’ after sexual misconduct lawsuit: ‘We had 20 great years together’

James Franco and his erstwhile longtime collaborator Seth Rogen nary longer person a relationship aft nan character was deed pinch sexual misconduct allegations successful 2018.

“I haven’t talked to Seth. I emotion Seth, we had 20 awesome years together, but I conjecture it’s over,” Franco told Variety of his narration pinch Rogen while promoting his caller movie “Hey Joe.” The movie serves arsenic Franco’s 2nd movie to merchandise since 2019.

“And not for deficiency of trying. I’ve told him really overmuch he’s meant to me.”

Rogen, who antecedently worked pinch Franco connected 1999’s “Freaks and Geeks” arsenic good arsenic respective films including “The Interview” and “Pineapple Express,” publically distanced himself from Franco professionally aft nan character was deed pinch nan allegations.

In an 2021 question and reply pinch the Sunday Times — which took spot months aft Franco, 46, settled his misconduct lawsuit — nan “Knocked Up” prima revealed he did not scheme to proceed moving pinch Franco anymore.

“What I tin opportunity is that I despise maltreatment and harassment and I would ne'er screen aliases conceal nan actions of personification doing it, aliases knowingly put personification successful a business wherever they were astir personification for illustration that,” Rogen, 42, said.

Franco came nether occurrence aft respective female erstwhile acting students of his came guardant alleging nan “Spring Breakers” prima “sexually exploited” them by utilizing his now-defunct movie schoolhouse to prosecute successful “widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behaviour towards female students,”

The Oscar winner’s acting profession went connected a 4-year hiatus arsenic he took a measurement distant from nan spotlight earlier making a return successful Bille August’s 2022 post-World War II play “Me, You.”

In his Variety interview, he said he’s “grateful” for nan clip distant from nan spotlight and afforded him “a chance to conscionable do immoderate backstage activity and really alteration what I request to change.”

He shared that he utilized his clip distant from Hollywood for “good purpose.”

“I’m truthful grateful to beryllium working. I did spell done a lawsuit, and during that suit I wasn’t working. But past COVID deed truthful everybody wasn’t working. So, I don’t know, it was all… I mean, we were each benignant of successful it. So it was benignant of like, ‘I don’t cognize what I am,'” Franco said.

“But I did surely usage nan clip to, I hope, bully purpose. And immoderate had been going connected pinch maine before, I had to alteration my full measurement of life.”

Franco added, “So I americium proud of nan benignant of activity I did during that time. And yeah, I wasn’t moving successful movies, but I surely was doing a batch of activity to alteration who I was.”