James Franco on Soap Opera
Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by Chuck Rocker in Dis & Dat, Entertainment, News
The Pineapple Express star James Franco has taken a role on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
According to Franco the decision to take the role is an experiment in performance art. And, if we’ve learned anything of the actor during his career its that he is anything but predictable. He insists that this isn’t a serious acting move.
Franco states:
“I have been obsessed with performance art for over a decade, so I decided to experiment with the form myself when I signed to appear on General Hospital as the bad-boy artist ‘Franco, just Franco’,” James told the New York Times newspaper.
“I disrupted the audience’s suspension of belief, because I was going to be perceived as something that doesn’t belong in the stylized world of soap operas. Everyone watching would see an actor they recognize, a real person in a made-up world. It would be about inserting myself in a familiar space in such a way that it becomes stranger than fiction.
I’m not sure what the outcome will be but I’m absolutely tuning in to find out.
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