James Franco took a risk in the late 2000’s when he enrolled in several grad school programs at a time some would say was the pinnacle of his acting career.
But the gamble has more than paid off as the 37-year-old auteur has ventured into and mastered a plethora of artistic mediums before and since. In recent years, Franco has written books, produced films, taught classes and has taken his directing to a whole new level.
Franco says film school at NYU and Columbia was a big help, especially when it comes to telling master actors what to do!
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“Going to school was incredible for me,” he told ABC News. “It gave me the confidence to picture myself as a director. I had directed things before film school, but I was pretty insecure about what I was doing. So, film school kind of gave me the confidence to do that.”One recent film where Franco played the jack-of-all-trades and stepped behind the camera in addition to starring alongside Will Ferrell and Megan Fox was “Zeroville.”
“Will was great, it does take a little bit of confidence that maybe I didn’t have when I stared out,” he said. “It’d be scary to work with people that are the best at what they do. I found that a lot of actors that I never dreamed of directing like Ferrell or Robert Duvall and Bryan Cranston, all these people in my other film ‘In Dubious Battle,’ they all responded to the material, but I think they also responded to the attitude of that we don’t have to all wait around for somebody to allow us to do this … we kind of figured out ways to make these [movies] happen.”
July 11, 2015
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