James Franco’s latest movie The Disaster Artist has Hollywood buzzing. The dark comedy, centers around Tommy Wise and the making of The Room. Franco transforms a true story of an aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider, who just wants to be accepted as a hero in Hollywood. Based on Greg Sestero’s best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy’s cult-classic disasterpiece The Room (“The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”), The Disaster Artist is a hilarious and welcome reminder that there is more than one way to become a legend — and no limit to what you can achieve when you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.
But before Franco starred in what will most likely be an Academy Award-nominated movie, he landed his breakthrough role in the NBC series Freaks and Geeks in 1999. He made his film debut in 1999’s Never Been Kissed and his performance in 2001’s TNT cable biopic James Dean earned Franco a 2002 Golden Globe Award for best actor. His many other credits include the Spider-Man franchise, Flyboys, Tristan + Isolde, Nights in Rodanthe, Milk, Eat Pray Love, Your Highness, Date Night, Spring Breakers, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and 127 Hours, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for best actor.
In the interview with Sag-AFTRA Foundation, James Franco shares his approach to filmmaking, acting and shares amazing advice for aspiring actors.
Check out the video below.
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