In an interview with Esquire James Franco revealed that he is reading Twilight.
“He sits by a side door near a pail of mop water. There’s a paperback, palm-pinched, cover down, in his right hand, and a big plastic shopping bag full up with something he doesn’t want to show just yet. When asked what he’s reading, Franco smiles his ungrudgingly adolescent smile, a grin as terminally satisfying as the last healthy squeeze on a tube of toothpaste. He is engaging, for just a second, in the mutual diction of actor and artist — “It’s for a project,” he says. But the word — project — thumps out of him unprecious and without bluster, as if he were naming a day of the week. He’s always got something going. He flips the book over. Twilight.
Keep in mind: The position of things is such that he doesn’t have to show the book. Had he said Jude the Obscure, no one would have been the wiser. He’s a graduate student, after all, enrolled in two universities at pretty much any given moment. “It’s crazy how much sexual tension there is,” he says. “It just builds and builds. I mean it never stops. It’s sort of explosive by the end. Crazy. Like they’ll blow up with it. And of course, they don’t.” He shrugs then, a good shrug, because he is selling nothing with it. “Which is the point too, I guess.”
Now, in as much as we’d perfectly like to believe that James Franco is a closet TwiGuy who just wants to read vampire romance, it doesn’t seem likely. So, given that James Franco said that he’s doing this for a project, and he’s not involved in a spoof that we know about, it would seem to us that maybe this is Breaking Dawn related. So we’re thinking(sheer speculation we have no inside info) that maybe he is auditioning for a part in Breaking Dawn. Who do you think he could play in Breaking Dawn?
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That would be awesome. I definitely can see him playing Garret.
Garrett. He would be perfect. And because of his perfection as Garrett, his part would be bigger.
…sorry, I’m tired, and I flippin’ love James Franco.
Did anyone else look at his picture and think, “Now THAT is what Edward should have looked like.” Rob is handsome and I like him, but he’s not what I had imagined.
Not I. James is not chiseled and striking enough. Rob is unique looking.
Garrett or Peter
I think he would be awesome as one of the Romanians…
While I’d totally like to think he’s joining the Twilight cast, I have hesitations thinking he’s auditioning. He doesn’t strike me as the type to go out for a role in this series, looking at his past work. Yet, he’s quite a modern day renaissance man so who knows…. Maybe he’s just reading it for some other crazy project he’s working on? If he’s focusing on the sexual tension in the book, maybe the “project” he’s working on is similar (be it writing, art, etc.)? And, if he were auditioning for BD, wouldn’t he be focusing on reading BD?
Just thoughts. BUT, IF he were to audition, I could totally see him as Alistair, or Garrett, too.
it would be so awesome if he was cast as Garett I could so see him in the part!
garret would be my first choice.
I don’t think he fits the description of Garrett. I agree he could play Peter (since Peter was apparently close in age to Jasper). The Romanians are way too old. And I also got the impression from reading the book that Alistair was older as well.
I’m thinking that James Franco would probably make a good J. Jenks…he’s got that gangster who supplies fake ID’s knida look….’ya know what I mean
That would be cool if he was Garrett. But I think he’s doing it for school but why Twilight ? Maybe he’s trying to be funny and decided to do it to find out what it’s about and decided to do a report for fun ?
James Franco looks like the Garrett i imagined in my head while reading the book i think it would be absolutely perfect! even though he is a big star that character has a distinct role on the volturi fight and with Kate again if they need someone to play Kate i will give him a shock lol
I read the article, and he says that he is researching possibly writing a YA novel someday.
Elizar, Garrett, or one of the Romans!
But I’m leaning more towards Garrett! That is immediately what came to mind when I read this!
Duh!!! Garret.Believe it or not, I visualized him the first time I read BREAKING DAWN. This is why it is such a riot for me right now!!!