James Franco on Hosting the Oscars With Anne Hathaway: ‘We Got a Lot of S*** for It’

James Franco and Anne Hathaway were ripped to shreds after they co-hosted the 2011 Oscars and now the 37-year-old actor is opening up about the performance that had Roger Ebert writing that he looked like “a deer-in-the-headlights."

"When Anne Hathaway decided to host the Oscars with me… She had said no before, and then they asked me to ask her, and I said, ‘Let’s just do it. It’ll be an adventure,’ and then we got a lot of s*** for it,” he recalls in the latest issue of New York magazine. “I probably got more than she did, but she got a lot."

The 11.22.63 star added that he didn’t think they were to blame for the bad reviews. "I think one of the things that happens in film and television and performance-based things is that people will criticize the performers because they’re the face of the piece,” he said. “We didn’t write the script.”

But Franco also admitted that he didn’t feel any pressure to nail it. “I’ve never aspired to be the Oscars host. I don’t care, really,” he confessed. “I’m going to do what they ask me to and do it as well as I can, but I don’t need this to be the best Oscars ever. I’m not getting anything out of that."

Franco knew it would be a risky move. "In the best-case scenario, even if I killed it, it’s not going to help my career, because that’s not what it’s based on,” he explained. “It was an experiment."

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