Charlyne Yi says she tried to break her contract and stop filming Disaster Artist when she heard about the accusations against co-star and director James Franco. Instead of listening to her concerns, she says that producers of the 2017 film are trying to bribe her with a bigger role than acting.
Yi made these allegations in a Instagram post On Friday, Seth Rogen, a film producer, was involved in the plan to bribe her as well.
“I cried and told them … I do not feel safe working with a fucking sexual predator,” Yi wrote. ‘They minimized and said Franco being a predator was so last [year] and that he changed … when I literally heard that he abused new women that week. ”
Rogen, Yi said in the accompanying caption, “definitely knows about the bribes and why I quit.”
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Most of the allegations against Franco appeared in early 2018 when five women accuses him of sexual misconduct due to incidents that took place with him now dilapidated acting school.
But even before Yi shot Disaster Artist with Franco there was a long whisper about the history of the actor of inappropriate sexual behavior, arising from an incident in 2014 in which Franco a 17-year-old sent to ask her to meet him in his hotel room. Franco later admitted that he beat the teenager and dished it out to ‘bad judgment“In a television interview: ‘In my position, I not only have to go through the rituals of embarrassment to meet someone, but sometimes it is also published for the world,’ Franco said at the time.
A few weeks later, Rogen had a SNL sketch that mocks Franco for what he presents as an ’embarrassing mistake’, rather than something predatory. “I decided to polish James Franco,” Rogen said on the show. ‘I posed as an Instagram girl and told him I was very young. He looks intact. I have an appointment to meet him at the Ace Hotel. ”
Yi said she now decides to share her experience because April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month; subsequent posts on her Instagram feed discuss consent, trauma and gas exposure, and take Rogen at stake because he is an “enabler” of sexual harassment and abuse.
“Predators will exercise empathy, gaslight, and say they will do better – all to protect themselves and continue to harm others,” Yi wrote. “Activators are just as toxic and abusive too.”