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)
Wire Q&A: James Franco Riffs on Science Fiction, Film, and Frankenstein
A new photoshoot and interview has surfaced with James from Wired! Photos from the shoot can be found in the gallery.
GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > Session #90
Wired: Your interests seem to be moving toward smaller films and performance art. How’d you end up in another computer-graphics-laden summer sci-fi flick?
James Franco: It sounds weird, but in my head that was one of the things that justified this project. Once I heard that Weta Digital was involved and that the man who shot the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Andrew Lesnie, was the cinematographer, I got very interested. That basically pushed me to say yes.
Wired: Were you a fan of the movies or a fan of Tolkien?
Franco: I was a huge fan of the movies and of Tolkien, and I thought those movies were a perfect meeting of technology and a story that needed it. I especially loved the work Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis did to create Gollum, and then again in King Kong. Suddenly these computer-generated creatures had souls—because Andy was behind them. You know, all this technology is scary for actors—what will happen to us? But right now, in this moment, acting opposite Andy Serkis while he’s playing a chimpanzee is a new and interesting kind of experience.
Wired: What was it like?
Franco: On set, Andy would be dressed in an outfit that looked like gray pajamas, with a ton of wires around him and a small camera at the end of a wire armature pointed at his face to capture his expressions. He looked nothing like a chimpanzee, but he was so good at capturing the behavior of a chimpanzee that I guess my actor’s imagination took over. It was like acting with a chimpanzee who has amazing acting instincts.