Maggie defends James Franco series
The Deuce star and producer Maggie Gyllenhaal defended resuming production on the HBO series despite co-star James Franco being accused by several women of sexually inappropriate and exploitative behaviour. “It would’ve been the wrong consequence to those accusations to shut our show down,” she said Tuesday on SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morning when she was promoting her Netflix film, The Kindergarten Teacher.
“It would’ve been like actually the opposite of the right thing to do. And yet, you know, look, I believe that there should be consequences for disrespecting or assaulting women. Of course I do,” she added.
The topic came up when the host asked the actress about the latest scandal looming around Franco: Actress Busy Philipps had just contended Franco allegedly assaulted her in 1999 while they were working on the TV series Freaks and Geeks.