Dave Franco says the weirdest hearsay he ever heard about himself is that he was courting Zac Efron.
Dave Franco talks ‘bizarre’ Zac Efron courting hearsay
The 40-year-old actor – who has been married to Alison Brie, 42, since 2017 – revealed an ex-girlfriend referred to as to query him about his relationship together with his Neighbors co-star after a photoshopped picture of them appeared on-line.
Talking on the Name Her Daddy podcast, Dave stated: “This woman that I used to be kinda seeing at one level reaching out and being like ‘hey, what’s this all about?’ and it was this photoshop of me and Zac Efron at like a basketball sport the place we’re getting like actually cosy collectively. Then there have been all these headlines that perhaps we had been courting. And I believe that had some legs too.”
Dave additionally confirmed that he was liable for Zac, 37, dislocating his thumb whereas filming a scene in Neighbors the place Zac needed to seize Dave’s crotch.
He stated: “It undoubtedly wasn’t as a result of my penis was exhausting. Yeah. I’m making an attempt to recollect if I used to be sporting a cup and he got here in simply actually sturdy. I believe it was a dislocated thumb to be honest, nevertheless it, it occurred. There’s a scene the place I believe we’re each grabbing one another’s crotches on the identical time. And I simply suppose he got here in with sufficient drive from the fallacious angle.
“The character truly, now that I give it some thought, to not stroll by the entire synopsis of Neighbors on this interview, however he grabs my crotch and we’re each holding on like who’s gonna let go first after which my character truly to get him to let go, I’ve a trick the place I am going Zen and I understand how to get exhausting on cue. So, I do get exhausting on this hand. That’s what makes him let go.”
Zac beforehand mentioned the incident throughout a 2014 episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, joking that he broke his hand as a result of Dave had “balls of metal”.