Yesterday, James Franco was looking like a first-class sleaze-ball for a suggestive Instagram and text message conversation with a 17-year-old girl he had met the day before. After she took a selfie with him, he told her to tag him when she posted it, and things went downhill from there.
But on the same day Franco met 17-year-old Lucy Clode, the trailer for his new movie Palo Alto was released.
It took awhile, but eventually the facts that the scandal began on April 1st and that Palo Alto is about Franco seducing an underage girl led people to realize Franco’s creepiness was likely a marketing ploy. But that doesn’t make the contrived exchange any less unsettling.
Brilliant promotion, perhaps, but still disturbing…
(via Hollywood Life)
So…um…who wants to go see Palo Alto now?