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 James Franco
Spotlight By: Stephen Snart
Click here for another interview with James Franco! Devilishly handsome and immensely talented, James Franco could easily make a career out of doing mindless, big-budget, Hollywood popcorn flicks and retire a very wealthy man. But he isn’t interested in the glitz and glam that comes with playing shallow characters in meaningless films. Instead, the verbose young actor chooses off-beat products that may not have mainstream appeal but provide him with a rewarding artistic experience. While he does feature in one of the Hollywood’s biggest franchises of recent years with the Spider-Man films, he uses that viability to work on smaller projects during his downtime. “This year, I was filming Spider-Man from January-to-June and then we had to go back for some reshoots so I filmed one or two movies while I was filming Spider-Man and then a few after,” says Franco, modestly trying to downplay his workaholism. In addition to starring roles in this year’s Tristan + Isolde, Annapolis, Flyboys and a cameo in The Wicker Man, he now has one final surprise for 2006 audiences with a supporting role in Karen Moncrieff’s The Dead Girl. This latest film essentially tells five short stories carefully woven together through the discovery of a mutilated female corpse. The segment that Franco stars in features a young woman living in the shadow of her mother’s obsessive search to find her missing sister who was abducted eleven years prior. The young woman, Leah (Rose Byrne), eventually begins to find relief from a charming fellow medical student played by Franco. Of his character, Franco says, “Derek, in her life, I think, stands for the light. Or someone who can show her how to once again live and connect with other human beings.” Interestingly, Franco plays the kindest and perhaps simplest male character in a film full of bizarre and complex males. “He’s kind of the only decent male character in the film. The rest are all odd or scummy or reprehensible in some way… the main reason I did it was I believed in the project as a whole. I said to Karen that I just want to be a part of it in whatever way you think is best. So this is the one I was offered and I said fine.” This desire to be part of the film in any such capacity accentuates a trend in Franco’s recent decision making. “I did a lot of movies but most of the roles were smaller roles. I guess I came to a point in my career where I felt like I’d done some movies that - although I worked very hard on them - they didn’t quite satisfy me artistically. I wanted to be a part of some films that I just really believed in. It didn’t matter if the roles were small I just wanted to be part of something that I would be proud of and that were movies that I would see,” Franco pauses ... |
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