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FRANCO SURPRISED BY GAY LOVE SCENE

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Monday December 1,2008

JAMES FRANCO's kiss with SEAN PENN in HARVEY MILK biopic MILK left him feeling uncomfortable - because his co-star wanted to act out a full-on love scene.

Franco, who plays San Francisco politician Milk's gay lover Scott Smith in the Gus Van Sant film, knew he'd have to pucker-up with Penn - but was shocked when the director told him the Colors actor wanted to take it further.

He tells Elle magazine, "In the original script I read, there was only one real kissing scene.

"A month after Gus asked me to do it, they sent me another script, and on Page 5 there was a full-on love scene. And I was like, 'Gus, what the heck?' He says, 'Well, it was Sean's idea'."


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