Seth Rogen and James Franco's first meeting 'was like Fifty Shades of Grey’

Real-life buddies Seth Rogen and James Franco, who star together in the upcoming Sausage Party animated film, left little to the imagination during a new interview with the US TODAY show.

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“We met when Seth was so young and impressionable,” James said of their first meeting.

Seth added: “He scooped me up. I was underage. He was a very alluring older man - I didn’t know what hit me.

“He was inviting me on fancy dinners, all these things, it was like Fifty Shades of Grey.”

Well, then! No wonder they got so intimate when they parodied Kanye West’s ‘Bound 2’ music video.

During the interview, the pair did actually get a chance to chat about what they were there to promote - the movie, Sausage Party.

“We really put a lot of thought into this movie, honestly.” Seth explained. “It has a lot of surprisingly deep ideas in it considering it’s essentially talking phalluses for 90 minutes.”

He added: “People will be surprised how much heart there is in the movie and how there’s actually a lot of theological thought that went into it.”

But Seth did warn: “If you bring your kids to it, you are a bad parent.”

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