James Franco has said he thought he was going to be the next James Dean, and even played Dean in a biopic, until Judd Apatow cast him against type as a mellow drug dealer in Pineapple Express. The comedy rerouted his career away from brooding leading-man roles. The pivot showed a different range and became one of his most beloved parts. It is a clean example of a filmmaker seeing something in an actor the actor had not seen in himself. Follow @cinemaoccupy for more. #JamesFranco #PineappleExpres
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James Franco has said he thought he was going to be the next James Dean, and even played Dean in a biopic, until Judd Apatow cast him against type as a mellow drug dealer in Pineapple Express. The comedy rerouted his career away from brooding leading-man roles. The pivot showed a different range and became one of his most beloved parts. It is a clean example of a filmmaker seeing something in an actor the actor had not seen in himself. Follow @cinemaoccupy for more. #JamesFranco #PineappleExpres
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