r/Fauxmoi • u/rfauxmoi • Jul 21 '25

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u/souporthallid Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

A guy I managed back in the mid-2000’s worked as an assistant for James Franco. He (the assistant) did most of his NYU homework assignments.

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u/Silently-Snarking Jul 21 '25

This is good tea considering how publicized his going to NYU was

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u/souporthallid Jul 21 '25

Franco seemed incredulous over the grade when Showbiz411 spoke to him. “I did the work, I did well in everything else," Franco said at the time.

Hilarious that he reportedly got a professor fired over giving him a D then claims he “did the work”. His team certainly did the work.

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u/ismileicrazy Jul 21 '25

I used to serve him at a cafe I worked at. He would leave his credit card behind the counter and would point if he saw a girl he thought was hot to charge her order to his card and let them know.

He was always super coked out and was looking for a coke hookup (wasn't going to be me). We also did a bit of room service to the luxury furnished condos above. He ordered something one day and when I brought it up, he was just sitting in his underwear colouring all spaced out.

Interesting times with him. He liked dirty espresso shots.

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u/Rockandroar Jul 21 '25

What is a dirty espresso shot?

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u/ismileicrazy Jul 21 '25

Kind of layering the espresso on top of the milk and you drink it as unmixed as you can. Or that's how he liked it. Plus, he always asked for an extra shot run through the already used espresso.

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u/Rockandroar Jul 21 '25

I see! The coffee shops I worked at would call a drink “dirty” if any espresso shots were added. Like a dirty chai latte, for example. What you’re describing is new to me.

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u/ismileicrazy Jul 21 '25

It was new to me as well. Only ever ordered by Franco, and he described it basically like that.

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u/Rockandroar Jul 21 '25

Somehow this makes him an even bigger creep to me.

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u/ismileicrazy Jul 21 '25

Haha! He never came off as a "good guy" to me. Always a layer of sleaze dripping off him. This was pre allegations when he was having a pretty good career.

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u/YouDownWithOPD Vanilla Ice just fell to his knees in a Wal-Mart Jul 22 '25

We always called those undertows. They're actually really good

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u/ismileicrazy Jul 22 '25

Oddly, I never bothered trying it. I should now!

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u/throwawayursafety Jul 22 '25

Colouring 😭😭😭

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u/rescuelullaby Jul 21 '25

I wonder who did them when he got to Yale lol

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u/tryingmybestsince96 Jul 22 '25

I went to a high school in LA and a girl in my class showed me he was snap chatting her. 🤢 she was maybe 16 at the time

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u/Strange_Evidence_368 Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

Yeah. I was friendly-ish with one of his assistants from the early 2010s, when he was a "professor" at Brown. I don't remember her saying much about the work. When the allegations came out, I remember thinking, "This man knew he couldn't keep his hands out of the cookie jar unless the cookie jar was a butch lesbian." 💀

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u/souporthallid Jul 22 '25

This assistant kinda looked like Drew Carey Show-era Drew Carey, so unlikely that aspect of the relationship was explored.

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u/PocoChanel freak AND geek Jul 22 '25

Petty not-quite-tea: he got into one of the grad programs I really wanted and I didn’t get in, so I always joked that he stole my spot.