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James Franco’s first gay kiss with Sean Penn – not so hot

“[A minute] doesn’t sound like a long time, but in front of 200 people, it’s a long time…. We’re sitting on the curb, kissing. You can’t deny what’s going on. I’m kissing Spicoli [Penn] and it’s still going and it’s not stopping and it was when he had a beard and the beard is scraping me. Afterwards, we were like, ‘All right, how are those Raiders?’ … He would always ask me if my girlfriend was the better kisser.

Actor James Franco talking about his on-set experiences with Sean Penn for the upcoming film “Milk,” which is about the pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk of San Francisco. (USA Today)

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