It’s amazing that he even has time to flirt on Instagram.
Soap Star
In 2009, after receiving critical acclaim for his appearance in Gus Van Sant's Milk, Franco surprised critics by accepting a recurring role on daytime soap opera General Hospital as 'Franco, a multimedia artist who comes to Port Charles with unfinished business with mob enforcer Jason Morgan'. He was eventually killed off in the dramatic scene you see above.
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Performance Artist
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Franco later claimed that his appearance on General Hospital was a work of 'performance art'. He eventually presented the performance in its entirety in his experimental 2012 film Francophrenia (Or Don't Kill Me, I Know Where The Baby Is).
Francophrenia / James Franco & Ian Olds
Film Director
Francophrenia isn't Franco's only project as a filmmaker. Since 2005, he's directed sixteen feature films, including adaptations of William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying) and Cormac McCarthy (Child of God), and a biopic of Rebel Without a Cause star Sal Mineo.
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Screenwriter
He's also written seventeen films.
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