HuffingtonPost James Franco Nana is back in New Orleans after a week in London doing makeup for the Prometheus press tour. Fortunately, the other makeup artists on the film I'm shooting filled in for her so she could make sure the cast of Prometheus looked good for Access Hollywood. I'm only a little bitter, and that's only because I love having Nana around and I don't like to share her. But I understand that she is in a creative role and needs to consider her own career; I also understand that she has made sacrifices for me. Last year, she spent six months in Detroit doing my turn-of-the-century (20th century, that is) hairdo on Oz, instead of taking a job as head of the hair department on Snow White and the Huntsman. I don't want to talk about whether she made the right decision or not, but for the past year she has reminded me that she would have had a lot of fun creating all the hairstyles on Huntsman. Well, Huntsman is finally in theaters and, since we're currently shooting nights, we took the occasion of Nana's return to see a matinee showing; Iris, my Mexican producing associate, came along. There is a great theater called Canal Place on Canal and Decatur where they take your order at your seat and serve gourmet popcorn, salads, sandwiches and beer. Nana got the truffle-flavored popcorn and I got regular because the flavors usually get old after a few bites.
Movie star James Franco is making an arthouse film tribute to the late actor- about Brad Renfro - at the upcoming Venice Biennale art festival in Italy, and he hopes the project will remind film fans of how great the tragic star was.
Playboy: Participating in the Venice Biennale is by invitation only and a big deal. What are the specifics of your project?
James FRANCO: It’s a huge project I’m incredibly honored and proud to be presenting. It’s based on Rebel Without a Cause, and some of the best contemporary artists alive—Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Ed Ruscha, Aaron Young, Damon McCarthy and Harmony Korine—worked on different sections. I wanted Robert Pattinson to be in the project, but when Harmony (Rebel's director) contacted him and told him the concept, Rob said, “I don’t get the point,” so that was that.
PLAYBOY: Is it true you wanted to do a Twilight movie?
FRANCO: I had my agent tell [director] Bill Condon that I’d be happy to do anything in Breaking Dawn, but that was because it was supposed to be part of a multimedia project at Yale. I was working with a Yale undergraduate who had written an autobiographical play about putting on a theatrical production of Twilight in which I was a character. So I was interested in Twilight because I was going to be part of that play. I thought what a great connection it would be if I were also involved with the real Twilight. Full Interview
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