James Franco Calls Out ‘Shame’ For Depiction Of Gay Life

James Franco is impressed with Steve McQueen’s new film ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ and with Michael Fassbender’s performance in it.

However, he has some issues with the previous McQueen-Fassbender collaboration, 2011′s Shame, for its portrayal of sex addiction and representations of gay life.

James Franco took a moment during his contribution to VICE this week to slam 2011′s ‘Shame’, by director Steve McQueen, for its portrayal of sex addiction and representations of gay life.

‘Shame’ focuses on the experiences of a New York City man (Michael Fassbender) who has his sexual and private life disrupted when his sister comes to live with him for an indefinite period of time.

However, the way the film depicts what quantifies as “sexual addiction” in the film, as well as how gay life was shown, does not sit well with Franco…

He wasn’t such an addict in my opinion, though. I mean, what did he do? Watch porn and screw a handful of people a week? I could point to quite a few folks who do that. And that scene where he’s at his lowest point and wants to fuck and goes into a gay club, and it’s depicted like the seventh level of hell… I mean, it goes back to the horrible representations of gays in the 70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everything dark and depraved. Then the guy gets a minor blowjob, from, Oh no, a man! The horror!

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