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James, two people have talked about this concussion…

James Franco: "Danny got the concussion. I took a head shot but I’ve got a hard head. In the woods when we're running around like morons there's a shot where I run into a tree and that's actually me hitting the tree and I make a sound like that. [Rogen makes a bizarre noise] That's the sound that I actually made.

My head got cut and I got stitches. Evan took me to the hospital."

David Gordon Green: "That's why he wears a headband after that scene. He had stitches in his head."

Seth Rogen: "We had to cover it up."

James Franco: "But you can see that I finished the shot. I got up and ran off-camera."

Seth Rogen: "He stayed in character."

James Franco: "Then I looked around and everyone had very wide eyes because blood started pouring down my face. If you buy the DVD I'm sure it'll be on there in the behind-the-scenes."

David Gordon Green: "You just said, 'Am I okay?' No one wanted to be like, 'No.'"

Seth Rogen: "'No, dude. You f--ked yourself up.'"

James, it was cut from the movie but can you talk about what inspired you to bite Rosie Perez' butt?

James Franco: "We were kind of just [riffing]. We had a fight scene and it was kind of unusual, a male/female fight scene, which is fairly unusual. Then we had one take where we're like, 'Let’s just wrestle and see what happens.' I had my shot and I went for it.

I didn't think I bit her that hard, but she said there were teeth marks. I think that one of her cousins was after me after that she said, one of her family members. I'm joking."

You met as young actors on Freaks and Geeks. Did you bond then?

James Franco: "Yeah, we hung out quite a bit with Jason [Segel]."

Seth Rogen: "We all hung out. I think at that point in our lives the age gap was a lot more significant. James is a few years older than me."

James Franco: "I’m not that much older."

Seth Rogen: "You didn't hang out that much with me, dude. You would bail. You bailed a lot. I remember we'd all hang out and order steaks and sandwiches, and you'd order like a chicken breast and vegetables. That's when we were like, 'This is never going to work.' But yeah, we did hang out a lot. We were saying this while we were shooting [this movie] too, like, ‘Who would've thought when we were doing Freaks and Geeks that one day we'd get to make a movie.'"

So this was a nice reunion?

James Franco: "Yeah. There was one episode of Freaks and Geeks where his character and my character had a thing where he had a crush on a girl and he got advice from me. For me, that was one of the cooler episodes. That kind of dynamic was great; getting to work together again is cool."

You and Kevin Smith are in your own ways king of the vulgar comedy. What kind of stuff did you guys come up with when you got together to make Zack and Miri Make a Porno?

Seth Rogen: "What kind of stuff do we talk about? A lot of comic book stuff. The nerdiest s--t that you can ever imagine in the entire world."

How dirty is Zack and Miri Make a Porno?

Seth Rogen: "I would say that it's pretty dirty, language-wise. To me it literally doesn't even register in my brain anymore. It doesn't seem that dirty to me. I actually just saw it at a test screening about a week ago and it was really like a romantic comedy to me. Yes, it is dirty, but more than anything it's like a romantic relationship movie with a lot of porn and balls. I said balls."

Your balls?

Seth Rogen: "No. My balls are not in it."

Is it true that you were having trouble getting an R rating for that?

Seth Rogen: "It is true. That's all there is to it, really. We live in a world where you can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can't show people having sex. I think it's weird. I don't know what to do about it. I'm taking suggestions. But I mean when I watched the movie part of me felt like, 'Yeah, let's go for an NC-17 rating.' But when I watched it I honestly don't think it deserves it. We've done some dirty stuff and this isn't anything outside of what we've done before, I feel like. I just feel like since the word ‘porno’ is in the title and that kind of freaks people out, even though it is like the number one industry in the universe."

"It's weird. I don't know why. To me it's a mystery that you can show these horrific things, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does."