Rare sighting of James Franco

whatta pig!

She got past-his-prime Franco. What a rip-off!

Must not be planning to star in any movies if he's put on that much weight!

He's hot as fuck like that

Jesus Christ, what happened to him??

Thar she blows!

Love this thick, bearded Franco. No longer beautiful, but still hot as fuck, just in a new incarnation.

Lose the belly and he will not be that bad.

James! Stop posting!

Jesus Christ, it looks like he’s missing a tooth! What an ugly fat fuck.

Man-o-pause

He's looking adorable.

Looks like a stud!

This is the body type I like best but he assaults women so it's a no-go. That said, I will take the nips to go.

R4 agreed. I actually think he looks better

Quite big tits.

I do as well R15. Twinks do nothing for me.

I'd jump on that in a heartbeat.

He's a house.

Thar he blows!

Izabel put on a few Lbs too, but nothing like James.

[quote]I think he actually looks better

Uh huh. Riiiiight.

Definitely still got those looks though. He could easily loose the weight if he really wanted to.

He’s had such an interesting life

Yep, SO much better now

Just the right amount of thickness

He was truly the Sexiest Man Alive at one point

The fat-phobic, looking, ageist, misandrist, anti-semitic, cis-phobic, sexual assault-phobic, and cool art dude-phobic, moderate actor-phobic, bad author-phobic, and pretty privilege exhibited in these comments are appalling, DL!

I would take OP over r26 every fucking day.

I would take the James Franco at OP, strip him naked, lay him down and ride that cock until it snapped off in my hole. THAT is a man.

[quote] He looks happy and healthy.

And fat, OP. Very fat.

Damn, he’s still hot…

*scrolling DataLounge as I open second box of cookies*

Fat James is better that jacked James!

What are the odds of having TWO drop-dead fucking gorgeous boys one after the other?

Proud mama!

What the hell does their dad look like?? A Grecian god?

No one is saying he looked bad before R24/R26, but many do not mind a chunky, handsome, man.

This isn't like John Goodman from Rosanne.

Is he preparing to shoot a commercial of Ozempic?

Welcome to Seacow Lounge, James. Now more than ever.

The fat Jon Hamm pictures are also entertaining.

He’s the opposite of a butterface. (butterbody?)

R37 Oh, I’m sure there was plenty of butter involved.

I would soooo motorboat his boobs!

Is Mr Franco currently cancelled or uncancelled? I’ve lost track.

Some people don’t look good with extra weight. They end up looking bad in the face if they gain weight. He’s fortunate that he still is handsome even with extra weight. The face looks good. He carries his weight well.

Some people are the opposite and don’t look good in the face thinner.

The face of James Dean, the body of Venus of Willendorf.

He’s been cancelled for years and has never been able to comeback from it. He’s a true victim of MeToo

He looks nothing like James Dean.

R44 Or Venus of Willendorf!

This thread!

I think you're overreacting, r27!

I can clearly see him sexually assaulting that woman with his eyes.

He clearly sexually assaulted some Entenmann’s

I want him to sit on my face until he crushes my skull.

[quote]He’s a true victim of MeToo

Bullshit. The victims are the dozens and dozens of women he harassed. He deserves his comeuppance. He should never work again.

No one should be forever punished for “harassing” women.

I don’t visually mind his look but the mind is always imagining sex as the goal. Sex is athletic and physical. Fat people simply can’t do it. At least not in any way that’s exciting. So no, OP, his condition is unfortunate for someone otherwise naturally handsome.

Fat people can muster a burst of 2-3 minutes of energy and then flop over and need to be serviced. Who the fuck finds that exciting?

R53 everything you just said is absolute nonsense.

r53 gurl most of these queens just want to suck his dick and titties anyway

We have lots of obese chubby chasers commenting today. Can we please stop normalizing obesity?

FrancoFeets.

I’m going to go rewatch all his films!

R28 good lord aim higher

Fat is fug - damn, he used to be beautiful

He isn’t obese though. Overweight doesn’t mean you’re automatically obese

"Okay," R52. I'm sure you're charming in person. Do you ever leave mom's basement?

He's about 40 pounds heavier now. Unless it's for a role in a movie, this is not good.

40 pounds heavier is not that serious and doesnt qualify as obese.

Funny how everyone is saying he's still handsome. I think he looks awful there and his body is only half the reason. That face is aging BADLY. Major ratface happening, and such deep lines everywhere.

Some people truly get the face they deserve, but on RightWingLoungeTM you're still "hawt" if "the libs" "cancelled" you.

A 40 lbs weight gain would push almost anyone's BMI into obesity range. He looks medically obese and also looks more than 40lbs overweight.

Gross

It's time for some good, old fashioned DL Carnival Games. Step right up.. how much does James Franco weigh? I think he's 5'10", and based on the photo I'd say around 190 lbs.

Has Lena Dunham been reached for comment!

He’s a hero to the body positive movement!

R65 once again, exposing that you’re nothing but trashy uneducated broke bum shit who lives off mommy still.

He isn’t in obese territory yet. He is overweight though.

He's 45 years old. You naturally gain weight as you get older. Get used to it.

I admit, when I first saw him act, I thought he would be one of those actors who was likely willing to appear full-frontal in a project during his early career. I sadly wish he had done it when he had the opportunity.

Chonky

He’s not “fat,” quite yet. Right on the line.

How dare someone age naturally and not care what people think!

Has Bridget Fonda commented?

Place this thread side by side with any Lens Dunham thread. The hypocrisy is hilarious.

Stay Klassy, DL.

Bridget and Lena’ mouths are currently full

R74 since when is obesity “aging naturally”?

In the course of modern human evolution (2 mil years) becoming obese was a pretty effective death sentence, to say nothing of so exceedingly rare as to be called anomalous. In the last ~60 years we’ve come to regard it as natural?

Has he been hanging out at Hometown Buffet with John Hamm?

[quote]It's time for some good, old fashioned DL Carnival Games. Step right up.. how much does James Franco weigh? I think he's 5'10", and based on the photo I'd say around 190 lbs.

It’s 220. Sorry, you lose.

My guess is that he's in the 200-210 range.

210 is my guess, too, R81

Assuming 5’10” is accurate and not his headshot stat…he’s easily 210-215lbs and that’s most likely clinically obese.

Sorry folks, the body-positive band of idiots has even distorted what ppl think is overweight vs obese.

He's 5'11". That's 220 lbs at minimum.

Like a button on a fur coat now... after shaving the coat.

[quote] Fat people can muster a burst of 2-3 minutes of energy and then flop over and need to be serviced. Who the fuck finds that exciting?

A total bottom with low self-esteem? I'm looking at you Lukas Haas!

R73 is fat.

[quote] We have lots of obese chubby chasers commenting today.

Oh honey, no. It's just one or two who keep making the desperately delusional posts over and over. 5'10" and 230 with a 44 inch waist IS height/weight proportionate!!!!

[bold]BIG as a HOUSE!!![/bold]

What do we think of Tom Franco?

Equally relevant, what do we think of Franco Zeffirelli?

And what do we think of Franco-American Brand Foods?

Haha yeah totally irrelevant, you got me, R91 and R92!!!! Except for the fact that Tom is the brother of James and Dave Franco.

But go off. So creative!

R92 I’m sure James is a fan!

Everyone is fat. I am bigger than ever. I need Ozempic. I put the carbs down a few days ago and I feel a bit better. I digress, I'd like to suck his cock and have him cum on my face.

R95, I assure you that everyone is not fat. Stop projecting.

True, everyone is not fat. James Franco, however, is definitely fucking fat.

If he's okay with his body where it is right now, good for him. Let's not kid ourselves that he's anything but fat. He's fat.

He's not Orca fat but he's still fat.

Fat Pig Alert 🚨

[quote] He isn’t obese though. Overweight doesn’t mean you’re automatically obese.

Based on current medical standards his BMI would definitely make him obese.

He’ll be starring The Whale sequel. The Porky Stoner.

R96 You type cunty. Of course, I like to think everyone is getting fat to make myself feel less like a pig. Tell me something I don't know. But I fly a bit for my job and I do feel like people are even fatter in airports than they were before Covid. As a full figured gay, you better believe I notice other people's size.

He has still great muscular definition underneath whatever body fat he has. Some of you queens are hysterical. “Obese.” LOL.

Newsflash…. Even if his bf% is too high for your taste, I’d say most gay/bi men and straight women would take this 9 times outta 10 over your straight-outta-Auschwitz ass with barely any muscle (but you still classify as “toned” for Grindr purposes).

He was gross then as a perv and predator and now he’s just gross. Stick a fork in him, he’s done,

Of course, R102, I called him fat a bunch of times but I'd still fuck him. He's always been pretty and very seductive.

I just wouldn't pretend that he hasn't packed on the pounds or that he looks better now. No, he was gorgeous and now he's fat. Fuckable and fat.

I’d still blow him.

He looks hot in the pictures where he has a shirt on—you wouldn't necessarily guess that his body underneath is that doughy.

He's been working out with moi.

He always had kind of a wide ass

He has those gross stubby stool legs like Andy Cohen.

He did an interview with Jess Cagle a few years ago. It was mostly a puff piece but he still managed to come off as an asshole.

These paid and arranged pap pictures always show up every few months.

He may look cute and cuddly, but be careful when approaching James Franco — he’s become aggressive due to illness from offshore toxic algae bloom.

He's been genetically spliced with Haley Joel Osment

He's planning to steal Brendan's role in The Whale II and win his own comeback Oscar without a fat suit or CGI.

My how time flies. I think of him as a young guy but I just checked and he is 45.

Threads on body issues and sexual assault are DL's banal, anachronistic evil.

Of course, R116, you're above what we talk about here on the Datalounge. One wonders why you come here at all, but never mind. With Franco we're lucky, we get body issues and sexual assault. He's a two-fer.

[quote]most gay/bi men and straight women would take this 9 times outta 10 over your straight-outta-Auschwitz ass with barely any muscle (but you still classify as “toned” for Grindr purposes).

Are those two the only options?

What about someone with a normal weight - someone who's neither husky nor emaciated looking?

Fashion and media made these impossible body standards the norm in the 20th century. It wasn't always like this, and gay men had a huge hand in setting the culture of body standards for both men and women. It's the gay cultural byproduct I hate most.

He was very pretentious but I thought the backlash against him was unfair

[quote]He's 45 years old. You naturally gain weight as you get older. Get used to it.

That's true, but there are many actors his age who have better bodies.

Big as a house!

R121, Franco doesn't need to have a work-ready body if he isn't working. We see a litany of fat Matt and Ben photos when they're not shooting or promoting something.l, for example. Lord knows you cunts poke on them when they do.

Theo James stole his career

Still got great hair.

Was he accused of anything other than making actresses go nude in sex scenes he coordinated?

R36, Jon Hamm looks so good there I can't hardly stand it. Everything about him is pure sex. He just seems like such a Man to me. Or how I thought all men would be when I was a gayling and fantasizing about sex and love. Rugged. Handsome. Playful. Masculine.

(I do love how he's clearly balding big time but you'd never know that when he's on a talk show or in a role.)

Franco is fine. I've never found him very hot. Not when he was young and thin and not now.

Franco used to have a nice butt:

Beautiful bum. Shame he's never shown his chubby cock

Really nice ass, I always thought his face was cute too. Fucking actresses seems fairly normal.

[quote]Rare sighting of James Franco

Why are sightings rare? It can't be easy for him to hide.

That's some "I stopped smoking and/or drinking" weight gain.

I still think he's hot!

R116 Glad you bumped this thread then

People who have to get ripped for a role are more likely to splurge afterwards

Jon Hamm and James Franco: the new Two Tons of Fun.

His blowjob scene from The Broken Tower should have lasted longer and been much clearer

R111 are you slow? A regular person spotted him and took his photo and sold it. This was in Italy. Not the USA. The Papz aren’t in Italy

R138 you never even watched that film. You just discovered it and posted it for no reason. PS he’s sucking on a fake penis.

Dear God. The uneducated loser who lives off his mother and his sock accounts are all over this thread. No. That is NOT obese. That is overweight. And no that isn’t a fucking 44 inch waistline. Jesus you’re uneducated

You can arrange photos in any part of the world. These are staged.

No r142. They aren’t. Franco is never spotted anywhere. He isn’t gonna choose now to start while he’s clearly overweight and enjoying life

R132 Quiting drinking does not make you gain weight, but quiting smoking does.

The Daily Mail periodically does a photo spread of James and his girlfriend in a bikini. I really doubt these are not staged.

R145 links

R139 Papz is short for paparazzi.

Here you go, lazy

"Paparazzi" is literally an Italian word.

[quote] The Papz aren’t in Italy

That's the stupidest comment I've ever seen on Datalounge.

I liked him best young, scrawny, smoking on the shitter. Looked like a fun punk.

Shaving his pits in the same John.

"Other countries don't have celebrities, or their own press. Italy still hasn't invented photography, it's completely unknown there. Only Americans can view photos. In the USA. Not Italy."

Omg. He's as big as an elephant.

He is NOT, R154!!! He's just fitfat!

I see he and Jon Hamm have the same trainer.

More like they go to the same diner or buffet. ^

R140 No shit, sherlock, you moron.

It’s also the fact that they’re shirtless. If they were in regular clothes they wouldn’t look as big. They’re both rugged and hot as fuck and I’d blow them both at the same time.

r141 / r140 and your other dozen posts here - seek help. The guy is fat and gross now. It happens.

He might be beefing up to play Fidel Castro. He looked pretty trim still in 2021-2022.

R161 oh yeah that’s right. Cause I know he’s not the type to get out of shape. He’s fattening up for that role. I know he will kill it too.

Castro eventually got tubby, but I don't remember him being THAT big.

He's always been thicc. This is what happens with his body type when you get older and just stop counting every single calorie that you eat. He's still hot as fuck.

R164 No, he hasn't, and you write like a 12 yr. old.

R163 Looks about right

The only time the “girlfriend” is trotted out is during paid vacations to get some bikini shots for the Daily Mail.

R163 Because he didn’t walk around shirtless genius. He was a regular fitfat middle aged man.

[quote]PS he’s sucking on a fake penis.

I hate it when actors take short cuts and refuse to be authentic.

Franco Fatty

Fat Hamm

R169 = Chloë Sévigny.

R128 - Is that Franco's audition reel?

He looks flabby and gross, but I’m a lesbian so what do I know?

[quote][R164] No, he hasn't

Yes he has, dopeface.

R174 Incorrect

What is dopeface?

Well, he's eating well, that's for sure.

You know all this time I thought this ho was Italian. He’s Portuguese and Jewish.

Russian I meant to say, not Jewish.

Franco sounds about as Italian as it gets. But apparently "Franco is a common surname in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sephardic Jewish communities deriving from the word "Frank", in reference to the Germanic tribe of the Franks, who invaded Gaul during the Migration Period. It is also commonly used as a given name in Italian."

R159 that’s how you know he isn’t OBESE. With clothes on you can hardly tell he put on weight. An obese person can’t hide that. They’re huge.

R164 he’s also half Italian. They, like Hispanics, tend to get big easily as they age.

R182. He is not Italian. His papa is Portuguese and his mama Russian.

[quote]Well, he's eating well, that's for sure.

He's eating for two!

He had a lot of potential when he was younger. Too bad he wasted so much of it.

I'm not sure he owed us anything, r185.

Why are some posters clearly exaggerating how big he's gotten?

James is still hot. But I thought DL accused him of being a homo.

He's probably not a homo, but he's a clear case study for gay baiting.

Agreed, R189. Franco was gay baiting before Harry Styles.

He is a fat fucking pig now.

Anyone saying he's not obese, I'd say take a good look in the mirror, but that clearly stopped working for you years ago.

Americans' brains are skewed about weight—in the absolute wrong direction.

I turned on NBC's July 4 fireworks coverage, and it shocked me how fat everyone in the audience seemed.

Puffy arms, bellies. Everyone soft and borderline tubby at best. I had to search for anyone who would be considered slim. And this was a crowd in NYC! Granted, there must have been several tourists, but it was frankly shocking. All cheering for obese headliner Bebe Rexha, who could barely move and would've been nixed for being too fat five years ago.

Compare this to photos and video of summer crowds in the 70s and 80s, where everybody was slim. Something is really wrong.

R190 Please! Both those guys know how to suck a dick!

no grapefruit and saccharine, r192.

MEANWHILE, he's hotter than every one of you AARP members who are giving him shit.

And save the "I'm not old" bullshit. We KNOW you are.

185 Huh? He had an enormous career!

He is slowly morphing into Weinstein as a result of his pussygrabbery

His writing, poetry and art was often quite bad, but I appreciated that he did it. He went all out. It was such a spectacle. He had mainstream success everywhere and was still doing all these weird art things (or trying to). I was amazed at his career. I can’t believe he’s only in his 40’s. I’m feeling envious! Still!

Got cancelled and fat. Really fat.

Per Wikipedia, critical response to Franco’s 2011 film Broken Tower (a biopic of poet Hart Crane):

Critical response to the film was largely negative. The Broken Tower has an approval rating of 20% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews, and an average rating of 5/10.[7]Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 46 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[8] In one critical review, Elizabeth Weitzman from the New York Daily News writes, "It’s not an insult to say the black-and-white film looks like a grad-school thesis project, since that’s what it is (for Franco’s MFA at NYU). . .But that does mean you should be prepared for some high-minded pretension, lots of self-consciously arty shots, and long stretches of apparently profound nothingness."[9] Although Weitzman is critical of Franco's writing and directing, she does compliment the film's cinematography and Franco's acting. In a review in The Village Voice, Melissa Anderson wrote that the film was "sincere, amateurish, and misguided" and that it was full of literary biopic cliches.[10]

I remember when he did a series of paintings where he glued fashionable clothes to canvases, then splattered them with paint. These were clothes given to him for some campaign he was the model for (Tom Ford?… I can’t remember the brand). They were ridiculous!

[Datalounge, presented with a fat person who is female, non-white, and/or gay, and supportive of gay rights] "Oh look, a fat person, let's rip them to shreds! [500 unoriginal references to mega-fauna follow]"

[Datalounge, presented with a fat white straight male who is also a sex pest with women while queer baiting our community relentlessly] "He looks happy and healthy! Don't call him fat! That's not obese! His face is still so handsome! OMG he's so hot! I would still do him! I actually think he looks better! I'd jump on that in a heart beat! No one should be forever punished for "harrassing" women! Fucking actresses seems fairly normal! I thought the backlash was unfair! Let's all drool over this horrible person who exploits our pathetic need to be loved and looks like the people we usually mock the most!"

I liked when he sold those art collectors in upstate NY a piece of invisible art.

R203 Here it is

I thought his crazy artist character on General Hospital was interesting.

He is definitely - DEFINITELY - hotter than I am. I'm old and tired and done. Not hot at all. Franco is totally smoking hot when compared with my pathetic old ass.

And yet - he's fat, which I am not. Even fat, he's still hotter than I am and he's absolutely, positively, 100% a fattie now. There's no getting around that fact, we can all see his gut hanging out there. The only reason we don't see his chins is that ratty looking beard.

Once upon a time, James Franco was devastatingly attractive. He's still a handsome man Lose the pounds, James, we love redemption stories. We'll take you back instantly but no fatties.

No reasonable person would call someone like this - basically a middle to older aged man with quite solid muscle mass (look any other part of his body except his stomach), but who also has a gut (shocking!) - “obese.” Unless you’re an insecure twink or a twink-chaser (or maybe lesbian), like the triggered weirdo here who keeps shouting at ppl insisting that they’re wrong, lol.

R192, sorry, but most gay/bi men and straight women aren’t into “slim” men. (Also not implying that most are also into fatties or obese types). The preferred aesthetic changed long ago - prob in the 80s.

A thick, non-obese muscled man wins every time.

I love how Datalounge suddenly becomes extremely fat-accepting and fat-empowering, when it's a wealthy white heterosexual male sex pest who's the fat person.

Hilarious.

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R209, to be fair, they're also going by his face. It's disingenuous to say Franco, as odious as he is, is physically just another fat guy. And some like the extra weight.

He IS FAT and also FUCKABLE. For crissakes we are not Helen Keller.

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R207 "No reasonable person"

Then your rant immediately gets unreasonable....

R202 is obviously a huge fattie

Is you like to look at fat people you'll like this.

He’s the only person I can think of who, in the middle of an A-List film career, took a role on a soap opera.

His brand was early "disrupter". High-low Pomo Renaissance Man. Mostly he was Mr. Gimmick.

"I demand that he stay 28 forever!"

The obese terminology is based on height, body type, age and weight. The only way he would not be categorized as obese at his weight, which I'm assuming is around 210, is if his body mass index were low, and that could only be true if his excess weight were basically lean muscle. Which it obviously is not.

More like 250

Bebe Rhex is not obese. Good god some of you queens have eating disorders. She is perfectly curvy.

Whew gurl, who knew pics of thick James Franco would generate so much discussion.

He looks like most 45 year old men who start letting the gym go and start eating whatever they want. Ive always said that once you approach 50 you at the mercy of the fat genes. If you have any just know you will have to monitor what you eat and work out most days.

Lucky for JF he's handsome, (even with missing teeth!) and that won't change. I think that's why some of you are so mad. haters

R192 is correct. Because so many people are overweight today, obesity has become normalized. If you look at photos and videos of ordinary people a few decades ago, only a small proportion of the population was overweight. Now it's the majority of people who are overweight and so a lot of people today are reluctant to call it out.

I was trim and in good shape my whole life until my mid forties, so I can empathize. A combination of becoming a lot less active due to my job demands and perhaps eating dinner later each night. James has less of an excuse because as a rich actor he has more control of lifestyle habits .

Damn potato chips!

Maybe Franco is temporarily not giving a shit and eating and drinking more, while waiting and hoping to see if he can pull off a comeback, then trim down (he looks like he can).

Personally, I don't miss him, his pretensions, his manipulations and sex pestery, or his sliminess (especially with the gay stuff). And it's not like he's a great or even very good actor.

Just give him parts where he to take his cock out and bend over to present hole. Then, he can come back for as long as he stays hot. Now lose that fat, fat fattie!

[quote]James has less of an excuse because as a rich actor he has more control of lifestyle habits .

God what a stupid remark.

If you look at the other photos at r210, you can see that though he's definitely got a stomach on him, he's definitely not obese. And he's pretty fit other than the gut.

He's such an asshole that I just can't find him sexy, though. His huge shit-eating grin always grosses me out.

The two people I'm fine with staying cancelled are this asshole and Spacey.

Don't get me started on his asshole!

[quote] He looks happy and healthy.

He looks happy and unhealthily fat.

We live in crazy times. James Franco is now officially fatter than Jonah Hill.

that is crazy times.

So many people have ugly tattoos.

R217, wouldn't Joan Crawford have been the first?

Just put a dick in him, already.

Interesting that members of that group - James and Jonah - have been outed as super creepy towards women.

R239 Jonah is just super creepy, period.

James at least was hot before he got creepy fat. Jonah was always hideous.

R241 Jonah is a beast in the sack.

[quote]R217, wouldn't Joan Crawford have been the first?

Joan didn't exactly have an A-list career anymore when she took over for ailing Christina on "The Secret Storm."

[quote]Just put a dick in him, already.

How? You probably can't find his asshole through all of the fat, and you can't face fuck him with all the donuts and cheeseburgers he stuffs in his maw.

[quote]Predictable by now that members of that group - James and Jonah - have been outed as predatory towards underaged girls.

FIFY, R239.