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Franco Comes Clean About Soap

Last Saturday in Manhattan, the handsomer-than-a-hundred-moviestars moviestar, James Franco, before racing over to the SNL set to simply sit in on a sketch and do nothing, gave a talk to fans and students at the New Yorker Festival, where, among other things, he revealed that he still has the prosthetic penis he wore in Milk and has since used it as a mask in another movie. But among those other topics was his head-scratching decision to play a character in a long story arc on General Hospital. His stint on the soap, he said, is part of an ongoing collaboration with New York artist-filmmaker Carter. In the Carter film Erasing James Franco, Franco reinterprets Julianne Moore's role in Todd Haynes' Safe and Rock Hudson's in John Frankenheimer's Seconds. Carter describes Franco's perfomances as "like bloodletting or a kind of cleansing...a building up and tearing down simultaneously." Which makes his appearing on General Hospital seem almost normal. (t/y Lainey Gossip; photo: WENN)



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