James Franco blames Anne Hathaway for Oscar hosting fiasco

James Franco has a theory for why his Oscar co-hosting performance was so trashed: It was Anne Hathaway's fault!

On a pretaped clip for Friday's "Late Show With David Letterman" on CBS, Letterman asks why critics suggested that Franco was stoned during the Academy Awards telecast.

"I think I know why," the actor replies. "Because, I love her, but Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway… She has a lot of energy."

 

Franco also blames fans for having a double standard about the Oscars. "Here's the hypocritical thing:  Leading up to the Oscars, I couldn't hear enough about how, 'Oh, people don't care about the Oscars anymore, it's dead, it's boring, it's at the end of a long awards season, who cares about it?' Well, as soon as you don't host the way they want you to, they suddenly care and they won't shut up about it," he says.

Letterman, who had his own panned stint as host of the 1995 Oscars, commiserated.

What do you think of Franco's rationale, Show Trackers?

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Comments

[Maryann]

Where do you get off putting up a title that says Franco blamed Hathaway for fiasco? All he did was defend the accusations that he looked stoned by saying that anybody would look lethargic next to Hathaway was bouncing off the wall, imo. He never "blamed" her for anything at all. He was right about people saying they didn't care but they watch anyway and then bitch and moan about every tiny thing. that seems to be the way of America now...total cynicism about everything...or let's blame everyone else because..boo hoo..something you really didn't care about you claimed didn't live up to your really high expectations. Please don't watch next year and let those of us that do enjoy it. Don't the producers know by now that there is no point in aiming things at young people who don't like anything anyway and whine and moan about all of it.

[ben]

Maryann , stop making excuses for James Franco. Franco is lying because he always has that ' stoned ' look on his face. Also, James mentioned on Jimmy Kimmell that Director Danny Boyle thought he was ' stoned ' during their first meeting for ' 127 Hours '. Yes, Franco is desperate to remove the negative attention from himself- so he is quick to blame the writers & Anne Hathaway. Even when the writing is bad and the production of the show is horrible , the host still has to give 100 %, but James adamantly refused to commit - not even once. Anne had to carry the show on her shoulders.