Christmas came early this year, and it comes daily.
3 o’clock is must see TV and if you’re not home during the day as I am set your D.V.R. to ABC. Why? Oh man, because James Franco is on General Hospital.
Yes, dead serious.
I caught wind of it last night so I hit my record button in disbelief. Even those of us who work from home need to actually work at 3pm, but at 4:30 I was ready. Perched on my favorite seat in the house in front of my flat screen I hit play and braced myself.
Sure as Sheila there he was, critically acclaimed, Hollywood heartthrob, actor on the rise, James Franco. I was stunned, ok, and giddy.
With gritted teeth and flared nostrils Franco (..the name of his character. YES I AM SERIOUS) huffed out these lines: “always treat people with respect especially when they invite you into you-rthey’re…(mistake) home, and prepare food for you….or at least buy you stuff..”
The actress he was doing the scene with kept looking over her shoulder, I imagine for someone to call cut. It was AWFUL!!! Franco looked like he’d learned the lines as he walked on set. Personally it seemed to me like he was being purposely over the top as if he was making a mockery of the whole genre.
I have to say that this feels like a stoner’s bet. (Mind you, I have only heard of such things, but am certain they exist.)
Somewhere in an apartment near Columbia University where the actor is studying for his master’s degree there is a group of guys huddled in a room at 3pm every day laughing their faces off at Franco taking what was no doubt a dare after smoking a doob.
If I’m wrong so be it but I’m getting the hardest laugh of my life.
If it was meant to be hilarious….I totally get it.
If it was meant to be serious…I’m totally scared.
I’ll be watching either way.
Thank you James Franco.
Thank you.
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Serious acting on a Soap? Frankly, my dear………..
“always treat people with respect especially when they invite you into you-rthey’re…(mistake) home, and prepare food for you….or at least buy you stuff..”
“If it was meant to be hilarious….I totally get it.
If it was meant to be serious…I’m totally scared”.
- Was he making her propositions? It could have ended ugly. Someone I know of in Ohio, 39, was tasered to death for that. Was he already in action? Therefore, Cassidy, you crucially inserted the last three words in this phrase The actress he was doing the scene with”. Oops, it’s almost 4pm so I missed it for today. I’m off Tuesdays and Wednesdays since I work weekends, for now. I see it’s now on a channel I don’t have, but in other days off I spotted it on another channel I have.
As I’m doing cleaning these two days off more intensely than I usually do weekly and most intensely I have done this year or even more, I will check to see if I can restore the working relationship between my VCR and my TV set. I really need a good laugh like that and I miss therapeutically laughing in group and throwing lines watching stupid TV shows. Thanks for sharing!
Well, I don’t know what to make of Frankie Baby, as I call him. I always thought he was a decent actor, but when I read he was coming to General Hospital I thought, “man the recession has even hit the actors.” No. Really I did. For him to come to a soap, things must be hard. But as an avid soap opera viewer since I was two – don’t judge me peoples – I have to say he overdoes it. The whole soap itself is over the top, but I can’t help but laugh at it. Now, that one line you spoke of – Fun. Ny. Mainly because it’s real life summed up in a nutshell. As funny as he delivered the line (and it’s not meant to be I’m sure) so many people use others to get something that will benefit them, that essentially, the sucky line really hit home. Not just “be nice to people just to be nice to people..” but “because they might buy you stuff.” And in this case, he was nice to the creator of GN, and what do you know, it got him a role. So true. So true.
Look at that..I guess I did make something out of it anyway:-)