The artiest member of the Judd Apatow frat pack, the thirty-year-old Franco is turning out to be one of the more intriguing Hollywood stars of his generation, certainly the one most willing to lend his bankable, Gucci-endorsing face to an experimental art project. (See the current edition of Wholphin for a Dave Eggers collaboration that consists entirely of Franco trashing a room.) He’s a filmmaker, an MFA candidate, and soon to be a published author (his short-story collection is due out from Scribner next year).

Das stammt von diesem sehr interessanten Artikel. I kinda see it now. Auf Will Ferrells und Adam McKays Comedy-Kanal Funny or Die kann man Schauspielerei lernen mit Franco.

Hier noch ein Auszug aus einem Experimentalfilm, den dessen Macher, der Künstler Carter (ja, einfach Carter) wie folgt beschreibt - darum dreht sich der oben verlinkte Artikel vor allem::

Carter directs the American actor, James Franco in a film that has him 're-enact' every television and film performance from his entire career, creating a new narrative from these re-visited performances. As the film unfolds, Franco also plays the part of Julianne Moore in the Todd Haynes film, 'Safe' (1995) as well as Rock Hudson in the John Frankenheimer film, 'Seconds' (1966). The result is a schizophrenic, daunting and poetic performance that has Franco not only playing 'himself as himself' but also the roll of a celebrated, 'leading lady' (Moore) and one of Hollywood's charismatic 'sex symbols' (Hudson).