Rihanna and James Franco came close to working together on her music video for “We Found Love.” According to MTV, Franco had to turn the pop star down due to scheduling conflicts. However Franco and Rihanna may appear onscreen together soon.
Huffington Post reports:

Rihanna and James Franco: not just a relationship that ends with YouTube tributes.

The pop superstar and the Oscar-nominated actor almost worked together on the video for RiRi’s “We Found Love.” As Franco told MTV’s Josh Horowitz, “She actually asked me to be in that video, the one with the relationship that gets crazy. I couldn’t do it. But, I guess, I hope that that means there’s mutual love between us.”

As you’ll recall, Franco recently posted a video of himself lip syncing along with Rihanna’s “You Da One.”

While the Franco-Rihanna video for “We Found Love” never came to fruition (model Dudley O’Shaughnessy played Nana’s love interest in the clip), the pair might appear onscreen together soon enough. Franco told MTV that Rihanna could make an appearance in “The End of the World,” Seth Rogen’s apocalypse comedy.

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