fans have plunged into a spiral of conspiracy theories about space aliens thanks to his bizarre new videos.
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James Franco Sparks Alien Theories with Garage Videos
James Franco fans have plunged into a spiral of conspiracy theories about space aliens thanks to his bizarre new TikTok videos.The 48-year-old actor is navigati...
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The 48-year-old actor is navigating a return to the spotlight after his Hollywood career was torpedoed by a string of Me Too allegations he assiduously denied.
At the start of this month he made his TikTok debut, posting a string of videos of himself unshaven, wearing a torn t-shirt and claiming a creature with 'glowing eyes' that was neither human nor animal was lurking in his garage.
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Expressing fears he was under surveillance, he vowed to film his garage and prove his story to his fans, but no such evidence has yet materialized.
Eagle-eyed social media users began obsessively scanning the details of Franco's TikToks in an attempt to discern their hidden meaning.
Now an X user has put together a compendium of the eye-catching nuggets, from a possible code in Franco's handle to the design of his bedraggled t-shirt.
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James Franco fans have plunged into a spiral of conspiracy theories about space aliens thanks to his bizarre new TikTok videos
A frantic James Franco claimed he saw an alien in his garage in a series of paranoid videos which have caused alarm and confusion
Writing in Portuguese, the X user noted that fans have been particularly taken with the fact that the actor's handle is @jamesfranco2319.
In the classic Pixar film Monster's, Inc, the code 2319 indicates a monster has come into 'contact with something human or "contaminant,"' the X user observed.
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He made his grand post-Me Too return to Cannes in 2024 (pictured) and is there this year promoting his upcoming action thriller Foster, also featuring Ron Perlman
The allegations escalated into a lawsuit, which Franco eventually .
He became persona non grata in Hollywood and was publicly denounced by his former close friend and frequent collaborator Seth Rogen.
In a 2021 interview he confessed that he 'did sleep with students, and that was wrong,' but maintained the sexual encounters were consensual.
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Franco added that he could 'never be faithful to anybody' prior to his relationship to Isabel Pakzad, whom he has been involved with since 2017.
He contended that after he quit drinking as a teenager, he developed a sex addiction, which he described as a 'powerful drug' he was 'hooked on' for two decades, in an appearance on The Jess Cagle Podcast with Julia Cunningham.
'The insidious part of that is that I stayed sober from alcohol all that time,' added the onetime Oscars host: 'and I went to meetings all that time. I even tried to sponsor other people. So in my head, it was like: "Oh, I'm sober. I'm living a spiritual life," where on the side, I'm acting out now in all these other ways, and I couldn't see it.'
Franco's head-turning entree to TikTok comes after he returned to the Cannes Film Festival with Pazkad for the premiere of the French movie The Electric Kiss.
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He made his grand post-Me Too return to Cannes in 2024 and is there this year promoting his upcoming action thriller Foster, also featuring Ron Perlman.
While at the festival, he remarked that he has finally made his first 'big studio movie' since his 2017 release The Disaster Artist, according Deadline.
Franco kept details of the new project private but let slip that 'it won’t be ready for this summer, but my guess is it will be end of this year or spring-summer 2027.'
At the moment he has a number of films in the pipeline, including a picture called Castro's Daughter, in which he has been cast as the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and the biopic Golden State Killer starring Vincent Gallo as the titular serial murderer.
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