Jose Angel Santana has sued New York University for wrongful termination. He claims he was fired because he dared to give actor James Franco a “D” in his class, and that the NYU film department has been taken over by Franco.
At the premiere of his latest movie, Franco explained why he never showed up to Santana’s class, which is what earned him the bad grade:
“I’ve been in eight years of acting class. I didn’t feel like I needed to waste my time with a bad teacher and that I should go and work with Danny Boyle. I felt like that was the right decision.”
“No teacher will ever be fired from NYU for giving a student a D,” Franco says from a Q+A session for “Broken Tower. “He wasn’t fired, he was asked not to come back after three years because they didn’t think he was a good teacher.”
But according to Santana, NYU “has done everything in its power to curry favor with James Franco.”
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