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 Despite the possible media perception that Franco is at a point in his career where the risk could be run of having his success in the Spider-Man films, he says he felt little self-consciousness in the transition from a brooding young millionaire to a pothead. “No, I was pretty much not thinking of Spider-Man for once in my life,” he says, “I was actually thinking Ryu from the Street Fighter games. I think doing this movie was actually a great experience for me. The Spider-Man movies aside, I was really unhappy with a lot of movies I done and this was a chance to have fun with friends and have a good time. I’m so happy that the movie’s turned out well and who’d have thought that the movie I’d have the most fun on would be like just a movie people are responding to.” One of the unusual aspects of Pineapple Express is how it combines the stoner and action subgenre. James says that he was ready for anything after having elaborately flown on a glider as the Hobgoblin in the last Spider-Man film, when he learned the actors all had to do their own stunts for this film. “Well, I knew the budget on this,” he explains, “It was like the most expensive pot movie ever made, but the cheapest action movie ever made. The budget was probably like a day’s work on Spider-Man. So what that translated to was doing the action scenes in a very short amount of time and the actors doing their own stunts, which was done for comedic reasons. We are not as skilled at fighting as stuntmen and all that, so I think when we fight, it looks more awkward, but it also a meant a lot more injuries.” “I just knew that going in that Seth has never really done an action movie and thinks it was really cool,” James adds, “It’s just the concept that when [Seth] actually, when he writes a scene where he runs or he’s fighting for a whole scene, that actually means days and days of doing it. Seth kind of took to that pretty well. We did a lot of the hand-hand action scenes before the guns and we all got hurt doing it. I anticipated some injuries and there were some that I busted my head open and Seth sprained his finger and Danny [McBride] busted his head open.” James espouses plenty of praise for co-star Danny McBride, who plays Saul’s dealer Red in the film after an impressive turn in the indie comedy The Foot Fist Way, which was released this past May. “Even then, a lot of Danny’s movies hadn’t come out,” Franco says, “I’d seen like The Foot ... |
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