What’s the Snark on James Franco?

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**Christy** (2:16)
Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Snark Bait. I'm Christy.

**Sophie** (2:20)
I'm Sophie.

**Christy** (2:21)
How are we doing, Soph?

**Sophie** (2:23)
Good. It is early. It's earlier for you. I just had one of those mornings where I could not get out of bed, but I have my Jura coffee here, which always makes everything better. How are you doing? It's 6 AM your time.

**Christy** (2:35)
Yeah, today was really hard to get up, but and then I kickstarted my day by watching some clips of our episode topic today, James Franco, which is not the best way to wake up. I hate that this man used to be so good looking because I hate him so much after doing-

**Sophie** (2:54)
I used to be obsessed with him.

**Christy** (2:56)
I mean, I get it. I get why.

**Sophie** (2:58)
He used to be my number one celebrity crush.

**Christy** (3:01)
I completely understand.

**Sophie** (3:01)
Obviously, those days were over, but there was a time.

**Christy** (3:04)
Yes, with cigarette smoke. There was a time when we all adored James Franco, and I've never been able to get over his brother, Dave, because he really is my old time celebrity crush.
But I think that James Franco definitely was on top of the world, and he 100% is deservingly out of the spotlight because of his heinous acts. Abuse of power, sexual harassment, reaching out to underage women. I mean, the list goes on. But before we get into that, Sophie, what is your history with James? Obviously, he was your biggest celebrity crush. When was the time that you decided like, wow, this guy is really handsome and I really like him?

**Sophie** (3:43)
I remember, actually, there was a specific moment. So there obviously were movies that I watched with him, 127 Hours, I thought he was great in, Pineapple Express. He really like towed the line between comedy and serious dramatic actor.
So I always just appreciated his work. But I remember there was a moment where he was like on the Oscars red carpet. I can't remember who was the one that he was hosting with Anne Hathaway or if it was just he was a guest or a nominee. I don't remember exactly what Oscars it was, but he was just wearing like tux, obviously, sunglasses. He looked like just such a movie star. He's always kind of had like a James Dean kind of look to him. And I just remember being like, wow, like that guy's fucking hot. He's a movie star, like just hot. And it seemed like he had a good personality, which we know now he very much does not.