James Franco kicked a chair, stormed off set after bad Oscars hosting reviews with Anne Hathaway: report

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“With Gourley and Rust” podcast, comedian Paul Rust claimed he witnessed the whole thing.“I saw James Franco flip out once,” Rust claimed in the episode that dropped on Dec 27. “When ‘Your Highness’ came out, CollegeHumor was going to try to do some promotion, and the idea was that a group of nerds are playing Dungeons and Dragons with the stars of ‘Your Highness,’ James Franco and Danny McBride.”He noted “this was literally two days after [Franco] had hosted the Oscars.

So he was upset because the reviews were not good. He was in a bad mood.”During the time, Franco was promoting the 2011 stoner comic fantasy flick, and during the first take of the CollegeHumor promo, Rust recalled the actor had “his head down” and was “mumbling all of his lines,” causing the footage to be “unusable.” Rust said the promo director asked Franco, “What was that?

What are you doing?”According to the comedian, the director’s inquiry made the star “more upset.”So, in the next take, he starts going off-script, and he goes — and it’s also, like, the script is about, it’s the joke that he’s probably tired of, which is James Franco, Renaissance man,” Rust stated.“So, the premise was, each person picks their character and goes, ‘My character is Skibby the Great, and he’s a warlock who has these powers.’ And then it comes to James Franco, and he goes, ‘My character is James Franco, and he’s been getting into cooking chorizo.’ So, it’s sort of like he has to be self-effacing here, so that’s also part of the problem.

And so, he starts doing ad-libs about other things that people say about James Franco. So he goes, but in the mumble voice — he’s still doing the mumbling thing, so he’s got his head down — he goes, ‘James Franco was high on heroin when.