Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)
Lovelace (2012)
Cherry (2012)
The Broken Tower (2011)
The Stare (2012)
Maladies (2011)
Rise of the Apes (2011)
Rebel (2011)
As I Lay Dying (2012)
Sal (2011)
James Franco: “I Never Thought I Would Be Playing Allen Ginsberg”
Expect tons of Sundance posts in the next couple of days. In fact, here’s a great interview/article with James from it!
“One thing that I love about playing characters based on real people,” James Franco told indieWIRE at the Sundance Film Festival yesterday, “is that it gives me this extra jolt of responsibility where I feel like I especially need to get it right because I owe it to the original person or the people that love that person and respect that person. I feel much more obligation to just do my homework and really do everything I can to nail that role. And the other side of it is, usually when I’m portraying a real person it’s somebody that I love or at least respect in a lot of ways. So I want to celebrate them and do the best job I can. I like the idea of showing that to audiences through a portrayal of what I love about this person.”
Here at Sundance, Franco showed audiences what he loved about Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg in “HOWL,” Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein’s unique retelling of the obscenity trial that faced Ginsberg’s poem of the same name. While the film – which opened the festival Thursday night – has been met with a generally mixed response, critics are unanimously praising Franco’s performance.
