James Franco has basically annoyed the shit out of everyone for the past year by being a pretentious, overly educated, multi-tasking hipster. Granted, this is mostly annoying because he's so damn good at everything. Even while you were bitching about how bad his hosting gig on the Oscars was going, you were rooting for him as Best Actor in 127 Hours
. It's irritating. I knew a guy in high school who could draw cartoons and write well, but he got top scores in science and math classes. Stop being so vastly talented, jerks! Anyways.Now he's talking to Playboy in a long, very candid, completely predictable interview about how everyone wants to pick on him because he's so damn busy being so damn talented. He has a lot to say about lots of people. I think my personal fave is how someone posted a photo of him sleeping during a lecture at Columbia. His response? "People sleep in class at all my schools all the time and nobody posts their pictures." So, take that Columbia, Yale and NYU. Everyone thinks you're boring, not just James Franco.
Franco has some particularly biting things to say about Gawker, which, obviously. He also thinks it's "great" that so many people think he's gay, which is exactly the kind of thing an idiotic straight guy who thinks he's progressive would say. I love how people say I am one of those brave and daring gays! I am so subversive!
If you ask me, James Franco demonstrated some of that abundant education by shutting down his Twitter account. He's so much better when he's not being himself. He should be sticking to acting, to fiction, where he can really shine without sounding like an asshole. Then again, I'll bet Gawker disagrees.