Sundance 2013: James Franco Brings The Leather-Clad, X-Rated Gay Scenes

Sundance 2013: James Franco Brings The Leather-Clad, X-Rated Gay Scenes

Thank god for James Franco, huh? Everyone's favourite actor-turned-student-turned-performance-artist had two films premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday evening (January 19, 2013), though one of them caused more of a stir than the other. Franco is co-director of Interior. Leather Bar, a movie purporting to be a re-creation of "40 minutes of hardcore gay sex that director William Friedkin cut out of his controversial 1980 movie Cruising," reports Hollywood.com.

The original film starred Al Pacino who goes undercover in the New York leather scene to resolve a number of grisly murders. Had Friedkin kept in the gay scenes, the movie would have almost certainly been rated X and not reached an extensive audience. With "oral sex, masturbation, and erect penises galore," it seems Interior, Leather Bar is going to be pretty hard to screen too.

Though not as controversial as 'Interior..', James Franco's other Sundance effort still contained plenty of pornography. The actor serves as co-producer of Christina Voros' Kink, a straightforward documentary about the porn website Kink.com. The film explores how the multi-million dollar company goes about managing the world's largest collection of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism.) 

For younger fans of James Franco, the actor is currently shooting the romantic-drama The Third Person, about three interlocking love stories in Rome, Paris and New York. It also stars Mila Kunis, Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde.

Watch The Interior, Leather Bar Trailer

INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. trailer from Travis Mathews on Vimeo.