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 scaling heights of acting, directing, studying
Here’s a nice article/interview USA today has with James.
Take a lead role in a movie or finish a semester at Columbia University. What would you do?For most people, that decision takes a nanosecond. For James Franco, it was excruciating.
“I’ve turned down a lot of movies just to be in school,” says the actor, who began his academic career with a bachelor’s degree in English at UCLA. “And it felt like, ‘All right, (acting) is still my job. I still need to do this.’ ”
He was just three credits shy of earning his MFA when a two-week overlap between his final semester’s finish line and adventure film 127 Hours‘ start date forced his hand. “I can’t support myself on an academic career, or directing, yet,” he says. “So I took it.”
He sounds pained.
“I’ve done my thesis, I’ve done everything,” he says softly. Because he took the role, Franco lost a semester’s worth of work and will not graduate this year.
Franco, 32, just closed the Tribeca Film Festival with his directorial debut, the documentary Saturday Night. Dressed in a button-down and jeans, with tousled brown curly hair, he does not often look at the interviewer, but he speaks earnestly.
WOW!!! He’s really a superman! How can he do that? I’m trying to finish my master’s thesis (Film & Television), but it’s so hard, and I barely sleeps because I have to work 9 to 5! He’s truely an amazing person! I’m so impressed!