“I love Seth Rogen,” he noted on The Jess Cagle Show in December 2021. “I worked with him for 20 years. We didn’t have one fight for 20 years. Not one fight. He was my absolute closest work friend, collaborator. And we just gelled and what he said is true, we aren’t working together right now and we don’t have any plans to work together. Of course it was hurtful, in context, but I get it.”
And he further shared insight into where he had crossed the line with his students—but stressed never with anyone involved in the lawsuit. “Look, I’ll admit I did sleep with students,” he said. “I didn’t sleep with anybody in that particular class. But, over the course of my teaching, I did sleep with students and that was wrong.”
The actor’s career stalled for years in wake of the allegations. However, this year, Franco returned to the screen for the first time in five years, appearing on the TV series Karantina and the movie The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure.
