‘Pineapple Express’: On the Set with James Franco (Hollywood.com)

Posted on July 31, 2008

While visiting the set of Pineapple Express, Hollywood.com had the chance to pull up a folding chair alongside James Franco lawful outside the set for a late night chat around the new pot comedy.

It turns out Franco, who spent the past few years starring in the Spiderman trilogy and attending grad school, was ready to return to his comedic roots. He says even Judd Apatow (Pineapple producer) took notice, effective him, ?I miss the funny Franco.?

Now, the wait is not quite over as Franco takes his role as Saul the medicine dealer to the big fence - long hair, stoner garb and all. 

HW: What?s going on with the hair?
James Franco: I guess I haven?cheek by jowl really done much comedy since Freaks and Geeks and this role is very different than anything I?ve done. I think the hair is absolutely a way to push me even farther out of just what people perceive me for. I dress in?t really know what humbler classes know me for.

HW: So is this your consummate apparel for the thin skin?
JF: It?s very adapted for comfort if anything. I wasn?face to face a huge fan of the Guatemalan pants. I have one wardrobe change in the whole movie in this way we tried a multiformity of things. Some sweatpants. The idea was to have something that I would wear lounging around the house and then he comes over and I have to leave immediately so I don?t procure to be the chance to change. I don?privately know anybody that would wear Guatemalan pants. I give heed to Woody Harrelson wears them. I don?t love them. But, after the test they were the in the greatest degree interesting. I wanted to wear inn slippers. You apprehend for what cause people take those from hotels? But, there?s so much action in this that it would have been a hindrance because they would have fallen off.

HW: Can you describe your shirt to our readers?
JF: This is actually a David Gordon Green drawing. There is a I think it?s supposed to have existence a Great White knave although it?s a bit shaded in the same state it?s black. There?s a kitten in it that looks undisturbed. It?s almost like it?s dormant. I exercise the mind the shark is not eating it, but carrying it to safety. The kitten was left out in the ocean and this shark decided to state it in it?s mouth and carry it to shore.

HW: What was it like working through Seth Rogen another time after every one of of this era?
JF: It?s great. As far as I know, Freaks and Geeks was his first professional job. He was farcical on that, but you look back to episodes and they really didn?t give him a ton to practise. Off camera he was unceasingly cracking us up?I think we?re a great team. Other people have said, ?Oh this movie kind of reminds me of the action buddy movies that I watched when I was younger like Midnight Run. But, I see it more taste an Abbot and Costello kind of thing. I keep telling him that we should take these characters and do other movies like Saul and Dale meet like the equivalent of Frankenstein or maybe like the Saw guy.

HW: Is it true you and Seth actually switched roles?
JF: They had been doing readings of this for years and I ponder Seth always read Saul. Then they gave it to me and they didn?t tell me what role I was playing. I assumed I was playing Dale. I thought it was really funny, but I thought, ?Oh man. I really like Saul. He?s got all the funny lines.? So we met after I read it and then it became clear they wanted me to play Saul, I was surprised but I was like perfect. So that?s the best of both worlds. I think it worked out great. I would say he?s the more feminine role in the relationship.

HW: Aren?t you the any who wants to be his really good friend and he isn?t having it?
JF: Exactly. It?session kind of a love story.

HW: You almost get that kind of homoerotic feeling.
JF: There?s a little bit of that. I?d say a lot of that is David Gordon Green?session influence. It?s definitely about two people coming together. A relationship between a dealer and his client. I slip on?t know from experience. The last time I bought stoop was in high tutor, but I?ve been told that a lot of times dealers can be weird or it?s kind of a weird relationship. So at the beginning, he doesn?privately want anything. He just wants my production and wants to get out of there. I?m kind of a forlorn guy. I really like him. We get thrown into this situation together and of course throughout the movie, we become a lot closer.

Check out the rest of our Pineapple Express set visit coverage!

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