Franco, Quinto Kiss at 2015 Sundance (Video)

James Franco and Zachary Quinto kiss in a New York Times video filmed at the Sundance Film Festival.

Before bolting kisses together, James and Zachary slyly looked at each other. However, the on-screen couple failed to sustain the live chemistry test longer and showered buckets of popcorn over their heads and end up laughing.

James and Zachary graced the independent film fest for their movie I Am Michael’s premiere showing.

A horde of Hollywood stellars also gave their fair share at 2015 Sundance Film Festival and tried out the booth.

I Am Michael tells the life of Michael Glatze, whose character played by Franco, is a former gay activist who later in the film repudiates his homosexuality to become a Christian pastor.

Quinto, on the other hand, plays the role of Bennett, Michael’s ex-beau.
Directed by Justin Kelly, I Am Michael is based on the 2011 Benoit Denizet-Lewis’ New York Times magazine article “My Ex-Gay Friend” that portrays the triangular correlation of Franco, Quinto and Charlie Carver. The biopic film also stars Emma Roberts.

Franco expressed to the public also that Lewis permitted them use his material for the movie.

“I met him in person for the first time here at the festival. He made a point to come up to me and thank me, and he said he loved the movie. I think it was very healing for him,” Franco told the reporters.

In one of the film’s sensual scenes where the Franco, Quinto and Charlie had threesome sexual encounter together, Carver joked at the festival that it was literally “hot as hell” to shoot.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Carver said: “We were in an attic in Long Island in the middle of the summer. And the air conditioning was broken. So it was memorable.”

The movie premiered last January 29 at Sundance and so far, the actors, especially Franco and Quinto, received accolades for their acting. The movie in general received warm reviews.

Meanwhile, for many times over, Franco has always been in the hot seat over his sexuality. But Franco seems just downplaying the stones cast at him.

I Am Michael will now be screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, which runs from February 5 until February 15.

Agencies/Canadajournal