Interview with James Franco
Ten ways James Franco is more than just a pretty face
By Amy Wallace
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In high school, James Franco was voted student with the Best Smile, a distinction that has stuck. His appeal only intensified when he played a tousle-haired bad boy on the TV high school melodrama Freaks and Geeks, which debuted in 1999. He won a Golden Globe in 2002 for his sensitive, spot-on portrayal of outsider heartthrob James Dean. The role of spoiled heir Harry Osborn in theSpider-Man blockbusters garnered the attention of mainstream audiences, which he courted again as one of Julia Roberts’s love interests in Eat Pray Love (based on the bestselling book by Elizabeth Gilbert).
While Franco has succeeded in other kinds of roles, the romantic ones leave the indelible impression. Let’s just say the guy can’t help it.
But spend a few minutes talking to him, and it quickly becomes clear that Franco, 32, has a lot more going on upstairs than great cheekbones.
He is completing a Master’s degree in creative writing at Columbia University, and Scribner is due to publish his first collection of short stories. He is also planning to do a PhD in English and film studies at Yale University. Having dropped out of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 13 years ago, Franco has made good on getting the “well-rounded education” that his parents – who raised him in Palo Alto, California, with two younger brothers – wanted him to have. Here are ten (other) things that could almost make you forget he’s the subject of a viral video on the web called James Franco (Why Do You Look So Good?).
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