James Franco's rather lackluster performance as co-host of the Academy Awards set off a storm of speculation that the young actor/scholar/performance artist may have gotten high backstage before the show began. Pundits pointed to pictures of Franco in which his eyelids were captured at half-staff as some sort of empirical proof that marijuana had been smoked.
But following a day of reefer theorizing, one of Franco's representatives decided that enough was enough and let the world known that the Yale Ph.D. candidate don't play like that.
"James does not drink or do drugs ever," the unnamed rep told E Online.
While Surge Desk has no direct stake in the debate over whether Franco was under the influence during the Oscars, we will say that given his role as a drug dealer in "Pineapple Express" he is either one of the most talented actors working in Hollywood, someone who knows from experience or, hey, both.
And though a great comedic set-up, Franco and his "Pineapple Express" co-star Seth Rogan were definitely smoking something at the MTV Movie Awards a few years back.
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Oscar Reviews: James Franco's Academy Awards Hangover
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