New Delhi, June 14 -- the most direct statement yet from Rogen that the men's 20-year creative partnership is definitively over.

"I honestly think the nuance of it is too personal for me to get into right now.Nothing has changed since the last time I talked about all this, and I haven't worked with him in a really long time and I have no plans to." On the question of whether they had spoken recently: "I haven't talked to him in a long time, no."

Rogen also revisited a 2018 comment that had drawn criticism - a moment when he suggested he would continue working with Franco despite the allegations - and acknowledged it without qualification: "I also look back to that interview in 2018 where I comment that I would keep working with James, a...