Seth Rogen says he didn’t notice when James Franco said their friendship was over: “It really wasn’t on my radar”

nme.com:

Seth Rogen didn’t pay attention to the reaction online after James Franco shared that their friendship was over last year, he’s revealed.The actor told The Sunday Times in 2021 that he wasn’t planning on working with his former friend and collaborator Franco again after sexual misconduct allegations were made against the latter.Franco told Variety last year, “No.

I haven’t talked to Seth. I love Seth, we had 20 great years together, but I guess it’s over. And not for lack of trying. I’ve told him how much he’s meant to me.”When asked by Esquire how it felt “to have something so personal become so public,” Rogen was hesitant to discuss it, saying, “Honestly, I absorb so little media that it really wasn’t on my radar.”Rogen and Franco first gained attention in the late 1990s on NBC’s cult teen high school comedy-drama Freaks And Geeks, before then starring alongside each other in the 2007 rom-com Knocked Up.

Over the next decade, they worked together in comedies including Pineapple Express and This Is The End, with their last movie together being 2017’s The Disaster Artist.In 2018, Franco was accused of sexual misconduct, with an attorney for Franco denying the allegations at the time.