James Franco Talks About Gay Sex
For him it really is the Love That Dare Not Shut Up. James Franco’s new art film, “Interior. Leather Bar.,” directed by him and filmmaker Travis Mathews, is all about gay sex, and Franco’s damn proud of it. Premiering at this week’s Sundance Film Festival, the gay S&M film reimagining 40 minutes of footage rumored to be taken out of William Friedkin’s 1980 drama “Cruising” blurs the boundaries between observer and observed, truth and fiction, delight and pain. Franco announces: ““Every f—king love story is a dude that wants to be with a girl, and the only way they’re going to end up happy is if they walk off into the sunset together,†he says. “I’m f—king sick of that s—t. So if there’s a way for me to just break that up in my own mind, I’m all for it. … Sex should be a storytelling tool, but we’re so f—king scared of it.â€
