Busy Philipps - James Franco Assaulted Me!

[quote] Busy Philipps writes in her new book

A memoir? Can't wait to order this pamphlet!

Just the sort of thing a self-indulgent twat like Franco would do - Invent some traumatic backstory for his character, not tell the director, then 'act out' in character when someone else is doing what they were told, cos of all the imagined trauma. Such an artiste!

Wasn't Freaks and Geeks from 1999? Is she just bringing this out now because she wrote a book?

[quote] Is she just bringing this out now because she wrote a book?

She has talked about this to death, but with #MeToo she is brushing the dust off this story, and re-packaging it for today's audience.

This is the 1999 Busy Phillipps Franco didn't want touching him? When directors usually have a tough time keeping young stars apart, stopping them from wasting time either mischief-making or flirting?

Hmm. Ze plot thickens.

Busy Phillips really needs to start thinking about getting those moles burned off. Not only are they grotesque, but some of them can be deadly if ignored.

I just wish I knew WTF happened between Ally Sheedy and James Franco.

Jim Franco is the absolute worst.

Judd Apatow plays the part of a SJW

I was trying to be a method actor, Busy.

Busy has told this story before. Don't fuck with her or you fuck with me!

She should've sued his ass for that.

Jim Franco sounds more pervy. I prefer Jim Franco.

Apatow is desperately in need of a taking down.

Poor Busy has no neck.

[quote]Just the sort of thing a self-indulgent twat like Franco would do - Invent some traumatic backstory for his character, not tell the director, then 'act out' in character when someone else is doing what they were told, cos of all the imagined trauma. Such an artiste

There's a MUCH simpler explanation. He's gay and didn't want any intimate scenes with a female character, so he invented a work around.

[quote] In the scene, Philipps, who played Franco’s on-again-off-again girlfriend Kim Kelly on the show, was told to hit his chest while yelling “Dammit Daniel, do SOMETHING.” She did the scene and instead of delivering his next line, Philipps said he “grabbed both my arms and screamed in my face, ‘DON’T EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN!”

She hit him in the chest. Maybe she hurt him? We need to ask his side of it. Or why didn't she confront him and ask him why he did this.

So what's the deal? Is she pissed off at him or have they made up or what?

I did notice Busy wasn't that upset when she was hugging and kissing Casey Affleck as MW's date during all the award shows for Manchester by The Sea.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why, but this "Busy" bugs the piss out of me. R6 It's not her moles (though they are multiplying and growing) but something indescribable puts me off.

Th mole troll cracks me up. Is it the new Yellow Skin Troll?

R4 hits the nail on the head. Busy told this story - laughingly - at Comic Con years ago.

Well guess what? MeToo is indeed over. The reaction on Twitter is now officially "Did she report it to the police/studio at the time?" "If no, then why not?" "How convenient she recalls this when she has a book to sell.", etc..

The victim mantle has now cracked, people are demanding evidence and full proof, a la Kavanaugh. The year we just experienced is over. Yes, every voice needs to be heard but it no longer means every voice must be believed.

You missed out the bit where he threw her to the ground (R17), hardly an equal reaction, come on...

That's funny (R16) because the vibe I've always got from Franco is that he wants to be gay but just isn't. He was chatting up some slightly-underage (17 i think) girl over messenger/FB that one time IIRC. I think he's like to be gay or at least toys with the idea that he is for the social cachet.

R19 To me she gives off serious mean girl vibes.

Oh boo hoo. If she was so upset why didn't she get up off the floor and kick the asshole in his balls? Stop playing the victim. There were plenty other people around. He didn't rape her. She had plenty of opportunity to fight back. But she decided to pull the little scared girl act and run off squalling to some other female.

It was a violent act (R25), violent acts are shocking and upsetting. Plus it's hardly a good idea for a woman to start a fight with a stronger man - he'd already thrown her to the floor once why would she want to repeat that? Women are not socialised to respond with violence the way you describe, not even to acts of violence, and it would not be sensible for us to do so in situations like this.

I'm an actor, no..not famous, but... I'm a working actor. Sometimes you get caught up in the moment and don't realize you are doing something until it's done. I remember doing a monologue one and breaking a pencil and jabbing it in my skin so hard I had blood all over me, the director loved it so much he refused to call cut....but the union gave me shit.... anyhow, I think it wasn't necessarily against Busy...just an actor getting lost in his,character

I wonder if she touched him after he slammed her down. I bet he and Dave tackled each other all the time. That's what boys do. Not taking up for him but she may have been so annoying and Franco just dumb enough to treat her like his brother.

I would have asssalted her too. She's icky.

Attention whore.

I like her but I’ve never really seen her in anything. She still feels bad about this story? You’d think someone would forget something embarrassing and shocking, something she’s already said she’s forgiven.

She was in I Feel Pretty and a regular on Cougar Town.

I can't decide until I hear Seth Rogen's position on this.

I'm sure this thrilling memoir will just fly off the shelves!

Was Franco abused as a child? He always gave me that vibe.

[quote]something indescribable puts me off.

Annoying name, dead eyes.

R23 The idea of someone wishing they were gay but were not is interesting, Russell Brand is another one and I think Kurt Cobain was one too. Is there a name for such people?

r37 closeted?

That is one rough looking broad.

Bet there's two sides of the story

R27 may be right. Look at Mandy Patinkin playing opposite of Barbra in Yentl. He's supposed to be angry in this scene (he discovers she deceived him) and he goes overboard. Barbra looks scared.

You have to see her as a punk girl in "Home Room." One of the worst films and performances ever. Especially when she flips off the girl in the hospital bed. So bad it's good.

r27, let me tell you about Mandy patinkin getting caught up in the moment...

I think it would be fun to play connect the dots with Busy's moles.

Isn't she the one who slept with her dad?

Fame obsessed beyond human conception. Her instagram stories were a million per day, crying in one every other day, giving the most minute miserably insignificant details of her daughters and husband and her life ..... sweating like a pig in aerobics every morning wth the camera phone positioned so we can all see her perspiring like an animal. It's amazing Michelle Williams is even an associate of hers, never mind bestie-best friends.

Having said that I like her and I LOATHE Jim Franco so I hope this damages his brand and his life and his career.

Well I loathe over-rated Toni Collette, Busy Phillips AND her BFF, Weinstein acolyte bland, waspy Michelle Williams.

I actually went to high school with Busy. We were in school together . She was a bitch then and was in every theater production and she was a lousy actress even back then ..I can’t imagine anyone being interested in reading her memoirs. Will the book have 10 pages? It is not like she has had this long storied resume or history like Jessica Lange or Meryl streep.

why would anyone be interested in her book? No one knows who she is. I think she's releasing this story about Franco to ride the #metoo wave and sell her book. If she was laughing about it years ago, she's a real phony.

James Franco is full of self-restraint. Anyone else would have kerb stomped this irrelevant twit.

Busy has always come across as a snotty, bitter, vindictive twat, who lost what little career she had & now whines about "the club" she couldnt really get into.

Anytime I see her name, its attached to some kind of complaint.

R46 She's admitted that IG is how she makes a living so she needs to bring the DRAMA.

Maybe she wanted sex with Franco and he didn’t . She’s fugly even then

I think that's the point (R38) it's the opposite of closeted. There have been musicians in Britain who claimed to be bi then turned out to have been basically straight all along. I think a tiny minority of male celebs just really like the idea of being gay/bi, like it would make them cooler.

R23 it was instagram.

R42 I have seen that! My intro to her was in the smokers.

R46 fuck Michelle William's. She rode her x's death into stardom. Nobody gave a fuck about her or her shit ass haircut until Heath died. I wished he hadn't, her basic ass shoved in our faces. She def fucked WEINSTEIN. Give me a break they have been friends since Dawson's Creek.

Ironic name for an actress who barely works, no? She is an actress, I assume... or at least acts? I don't know her.

Are we positive Busy isn't a M2F trannie?

So basically this a nonstory because they are all cool now and James had a brief trigger having been physically abused himself. You tried it OP.

Any character she's played I couldn't stand, so I deduce that it's her acting. Maybe she hit him extra hard and that's why he reacted like that. She's annoying as fuck and rides in Michelle Williams coattails.

Apatow, what a fucking phony.

James Franco has a long trail of reported abuse/predatory behavior, long before the Me Too movement.

But because he's another "nice Jewish boy" like Woody Allen, protected by fellow "nice Jewish boys" Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen, Franco's fellow Jews will circle the wagons and defame every girl who accuses him.

Busy Philipps is the new Dylan Farrow to the Jewish community.

Franco is Jewish? I don't think so...

I want to have twins and name them Busy and Fallow.

R36 Yes, quite an annoying and stupid name. I had only heard of it once before watching [italic] Private Practice [/italic] Kate Walsh's character's closeted WASP mother shared the same name. I found it ridiculous then too. R64, Not sure if Franco was raised Jewish, but he does have Sephardic Jewish ancestry from Portugal.

"My mother is Jewish" -- Franco said years ago on a talk show.

CONFIRMED.

Back in the 19th Century, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Illinois could properly bar women from becoming lawyers. In the decision Bradwell v. Illinois, Justice Joseph Bradley wrote, "The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life... [T]he paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator."

The First Wave feminists rallied and lobbied and had the decision nullified by an act of Congress. The Second Wave feminists made a point of proving that women were not Victorian hot house flowers. This generation is destroying all that.

R63 is a jackass.

This strange name thing is apparently a tradition, Busy named her daughter Birdie, but they call her Bird for short. What's with parents today?

Fake-o Franco has shamelessly appropriated gay culture for years. We need to come for him.

Pity she missed that hot dick in its youthful prime.

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As there were risks he would lose his career, he probably got his shit together.

I always mix up Busy and Bijou Phillips, so I was like "who cares." But then I read this and I was like, "who cares."

[quote]This strange name thing is apparently a tradition, Busy named her daughter Birdie, but they call her Bird for short. What's with parents today?

One can only guess.

Is Franco going to speak about this?

Also, what's with michelle williams being in the tabloids every day she's never in the daily fail.

What does Mandy Paterinkerton have to do with this topic?

She donated her neck bones to a children's charity! She's an American Hero!

A director telling one actor to actually hit another during a take (surprising the other actor with it) is total bullshit. That sort of thing is not supposed to happen. The director was an ass for doing it, Busy was weak to go along with it, and James went way over the line with his response. Nobody comes off well here.

I always thought busy looked like a Barbie doll when you smashed its head down and it had no neck.

This sounds so overblown and taken out of context. She hit him in the chest - you know that most fight scenes do not have people actually hitting people, right? And he reacted in character as an abused teen.

Geez - get over it! It's not physical abuse.

Busy Philipps is a cunt.

Fact.

And this announcement coincides with her new E! series. I honestly don't even know who she is. I always she her photographed holding hands with Michelle Williams so I just assumed they were a couple.

So now she's angry that she wrote her book and is publicizing it but all the headlines are about a man.

A MAN.

Very odd interview w/ Wendy Williams this week. Wendy is awkward AF, but Busy is thirsty, thirsty, thirsty with a dreadful valley girl accent.

I want to like Busy so much -- to love her actually -- but her voice and personality and virtually everything about her makes me sick and nauseous.

Her friendship with a great artist like Michelle W is her greatest feature, and thus I am forcing myself to get into this chick.

Save yourself the bother r87. You know this woman nothing.

So I read Busy's interview in he Guardian she said Franco mishandled her but "james is charming and gorgeous and a movie star."

What's the word? Is she telling the world about this to taint him or bring him down or what?

Busy always looks like she smells shit. Am I right?