James Franco: ‘Maybe I’m Just Gay’

There’s been tremendous speculations over the sexuality of actor James Franco (127 Hours) and in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, Franco finally addresses these questions and the reason he why chooses so many gay roles:

“It’s funny because the way that kind of stuff is talked about on blogs is so black-and-white…It’s all cut-and-dry identity politics. ‘Is he straight or is he gay?’ Or, ‘This is your third gay movie — come out already!’ And all based on, gay or straight, based on the idea that your object of affection decides your sexuality…

…There are lots of other reasons to be interested in gay characters than wanting myself to go out and have sex with guys. And there are also lots of other aspects about these characters that I’m interested in, in addition to their sexuality. So, in some ways it’s coincidental, in other ways it’s not. I mean, I’ve played a gay man who’s living in the ’60s and ’70s, a gay man who we depicted in the ‘50s, and one being in the ‘20s. And those were all periods when to be gay, at least being gay in public, was much more difficult. Part of what I’m interested in is how these people who were living anti-normative lifestyles contended with opposition. Or, you know what, maybe I’m just gay.”

With all that said, we should probably also mention that Franco has been in a year long relationship with actress Ahna O’Reily.

Myth busted.

Source: EW