THE TRAILER for Gus Van Sant’s highly anticipated new film MILK was leaked less than a week ago, and already we’re hearing the “O” word mentioned. It makes sense. If MILK is anything like the trailer, then Sean Penn is an almost guaranteed Oscar contender. Ted Casablanca has a theory. The idea that if an actor wants to be taken seriously (i.e. to be nominated for an Academy Award), he’s gotta play gay.
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With an upcoming role alongside Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant’s Milk, and with the recent buzz about the homoerotic bromance in Pinapple Express, James Franco is well on his way to becoming the new Jake Gyllenhaal – the straight guy who gay guys love to fantasize about. Here he talks about wearing a prosthetic phallus (because I guess Harvey Milk liked ‘em big?) during love scenes with Penn who plays America’s first openly gay mayor Harvey Milk.
This scene went on for a long time, like half the day, and it’s getting old… and I go over to Sean and I guess he didn’t know that I was wearing a prosthetic. I go, “Sean, you’re such a great actor but you wouldn’t do a scene like this if they asked you; you wouldn’t dive into a pool naked.”
And he said… “Well James, if I was built like you, I would.”
A couple of weeks later we did this scene, where we’re both dancing and we’re naked, and we both have prosthetic penises. He finally put it together that I’m wearing, like, the Boogie Nights prosthetic. [ContactMusic.com]
Hot right? Still, I don’t understand the need for a horse-hung prothesis. On screen we get two choices anymore: Howard Stern’s stump or Mark Wahlberg’s tripod. Whatever happened to average?
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