James Franco made a sex tape when he was 19-years-old. Oh good. He talks at alarming length about how funsies it is filming yourself having sex, but how hard it is to make oneself look good while in the act. Franco revealed, in a Newsweek-hosted roundtable with other likely Oscar nominees like Annette Bening and Nicole Kidman, that he was intrigued by the adult entertainment industry. ‘I think [as] anybody who has made a home sex tape knows, what feels best doesn’t always look best,’ the actor, 32, said. ‘I remember when I was 19 doing that, and then watching it back and thinking, oh, that looks horrible… You have a lot of respect for those actors in pornography, because they are really not just doing it, they’re really selling it.’ As I breathe into a paper bag still full of groceries, he continues, ‘You understand what it’s like to be intimate with someone, so you just kind of let yourself go over to that situation.’ He says of his own work, ‘I don’t know if I’ve ever had a great love scene that people would think, yeah, you really nailed that, so I don’t know if I’m the one to ask, but that’s what I do.’

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