James Franco has officially filed an objection to sexual misconduct claims made by two former acting students in a class action lawsuit against him. JustJared reports Franco’s demurrer calls allegations he removed protection devices from the actresses without their consent while filming an oral sex scene “salacious … false and inflammatory.” The legal documents go on to call the class action suit a measure intended “largely to gain as much publicity as possible.” THR previously reported the lawsuit, filed by Sarah Tither-Kaplan, Toni Gaal and others, includes Tither-Kaplan’s allegations that while they were his students, Franco got angry at female actresses who refused to remove their shirts and “forced them to sign vague nudity riders.” The demurrer claims Tither-Kaplan praised Franco in texts and on Twitter. “The casting director and others involved with those films have confirmed that all actresses, including Tither-Kaplan, were aware of the nudity scenes ahead of time, that they were constantly checking to make sure the actresses felt comfortable, that they signed nudity waivers, and that no one — including Tither-Kaplan — ever complained,” Franco’s lawyers wrote in the demurrer. When the allegations first surfaced in 2018, Franco said, “if I have done something wrong, I will fix it.”
