Paul Rust Says He Saw James Franco ‘Kick a Chair and Storm Out’ of Set a Few Days After Oscars Hosting Debacle: ‘He Was Upset Because the Reviews Were Not Good’

variety.com:

Michaela Zee Paul Rust said in a recent episode of the “With Gourley and Rust” podcast that he saw James Franco “flip out” on a set a few days after he co-hosted the 2011 Oscars with Anne Hathaway. “I saw James Franco flip out once,” Rust claimed. “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.” Rust noted that “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.” Franco co-hosted the Oscars ceremony in February 2011.

At the time, he was also promoting “Your Highness,” the David Gordon Green-directed stoner comic fantasy film, which was released in theaters in April of that year.

The comedian recalled that, during the first take for the CollegeHumor promo, Franco had “his head down” and was “mumbling all of his lines,” making the footage was “unusable.” According to Rust, the director then told Franco, “What was that?