Though the artist typically sticks to poster-sized pieces, he upped his game Wednesday night when he hijacked and altered a billboard ad for the upcoming film, "The Greatest Showman." In his reimagining of the advert, Sabo pasted a giant version of Franken from the photo of him groping journalist Leeann Tweeden.
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Paid for by 20th Century Fox to advertise the circus film, the original billboard has actress Zendaya flying toward an opposing billboard that features actor Zac Efron. No edits have been made on the second billboard.
"Efron wanted to catch her, but Franken got there first, I guess," Sabo told The Hollywood Reporter, adding that the alteration is only temporary. "I don't need that kind of hell raining down on me."
Sabo later told Business Insider that the billboard hijacking is in response to Franken's refusal to step down from his political role after several women came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against the senator.
"The hypocrisy is staggering," he told the outlet.
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According to the artist, the Franken add-on "cost [him] about $1,000 out of pocket."
Released to the public on November 16, the photo of the Minnesota senator motioning toward or groping Tweeden was taken while she was asleep during a USO tour in the Middle East in 2006.
In addition to the radio personality speaking out against the 66-year-old politician, two more women, one a US Army veteran and the other a former New England elected official, said Franken touched them inappropriately, Insider reported.
In total, six women have accused Franken of sexual misconduct.
