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 James Franco
Interview By: Michael Dance James Franco is a more of a jack-of-all-trades than some people might expect. Since blasting his way to mainstream stardom when he landed the role of Harry Osborn in the original Spider-Man, his career has seen its ups and downs. Over the past few years, with the exception of Spider-Man 2, his career seems to be populated with underperforming films like Annapolis, Flyboys, and The Great Raid. Yet, if you look closer, you'll see a wide variety of roles in films both mainstream and risky, big and small. Before Spider-Man, he won a Golden Globe for starring as one of his idols (and his lookalike), James Dean, in a TNT original movie. Before that, he worked with Judd Apatow - the guy responsible for The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up - on the much-beloved series Freaks and Geeks. And in the past few years he's worked with the late, great Robert Altman (2003's The Company), filmed the Oscar-baiting upcoming film In the Valley of Elah, and even wrote and directed his own film: Good Time Max, which appeared at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. One assumes the Spider-Man movies, though, remain his bread and butter. Luckily, they're widely considered to be great films - and the billions of dollars in box office grosses can't hurt, either. "With Tobey, Kirsten, and Sam, it was fantastic," Franco says of Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and their director Sam Raimi. "Because you know we have been working together almost five, six years. So there's a great rapport and working relationship between all of us." He was eager to get to work on Spider-Man 3 mainly thanks to the collaborative environment he knew he'd find himself in. "It's always been collaborative," he says. "I mean, I remember on the first one, before we filmed, going over the scenes with Willem [Dafoe] and Tobey, and reworking them, and making sure the characters were solid." It's all the better since one imagines that on other superhero films, like Ghost Rider, for example, nobody spends too much time talking about motivation. He echoes the sentiment: "I've found that that's very rare. There isn't a lot of development time like that on a movie, especially one of this size, at least with the actors." He was not disappointed on the set of this third film. "On part three [Sam] was even more collaborative. I guess he trusted us more, he really gave us a lot of room to develop the characters, and gave us a lot of responsibility, just to make sure that the characters were being expressed in the ways that they should, and that their arcs were being completed as they should, and it's great. It's satisfying because it makes me feel ... |
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