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ANG pagmamahal ni James Franco sa pag-arte ay pinukaw ng selos sa kanyang karibal na nakahalikan ang kanyang girlfriend sa isang dula na isinulat at idinirehe nito sa kanilang eskuwelahan.
Hindi sumali ang bituin ng 127 Hours sa drama class hanggang sa tumuntong siya sa senior year sa high school, at kinailangan pang magselos siya nang husto para gawin ito.
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“I had a girlfriend in the drama programme and she had been asked to do a one-act by this guy,” sabi ni James sa W magazine. “He had written this one-act and was directing and starring in it. It was this romantic piece, and they were gonna make out in it.
“I got really jealous, and I begged her not to do it. But she did it anyway, as she should have. I realise in hindsight that I was jealous probably more because he had constructed this whole thing and he’d written it and directed it and was acting in it - it was, like, all the things that I wanted to do.”
Noon din ay nagpasya si James na sumali sa drama class, idinagdag na, “I got the leads in the last two plays that year.”
At tuluyan na nga siyang inakit ng showbiz.
“I was in L.A., and there was, like, a guy in my dorm that was on the show Cybill, with Cybill Shepherd,” aniya. “It was just all around me, and I was like, ‘Well, I need to do this now’. So I dropped out of school. My parents wouldn’t support me anymore. So I worked at McDonald’s for two or three months... Then I got a Pizza Hut commercial, and then not long after that I did (TV show) Freaks and Geeks. So it all worked out.”
Iginiit ng aktor na nakatulong sa kanya ang pagtatrabaho sa McDonald’s para maperpekto niya ang kanyang drama skills:
“I would practice different accents in the drive-thru, like really bad accents. But people believed me.”
Nadiskubre niya na popular sa kababaihan ang accent trick, idinagdag na, “I’d always know that they were interested ‘cause they’d come back around... She’d come back and she’d be like, ‘Well, I’m trying to learn Italian. Maybe you could give me some Italian lessons’.
“There were a couple, I guess, with my Irish accent or, like, my Brooklyn accent - those I could go out on dates with. You know, we went to see Titanic, and I had to keep it up... I always had to break it to ‘em, ‘cause they’d call me, and it was before cell phones. So I’d pick up the phone, I didn’t know who it was. And I’d be like, ‘Hello?’
And they’d be like, ‘James, is that you? What happened to your accent?’ It was always the worst, as if I was this huge imposter... It usually ended right there.”
