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James Franco as “Franco” on the 11/24/2009 episode of General Hospital. He’s a magnificently cheesy sleaze. He should make the rest of his career some kind of weird joke.
It’s really weird to see Daniel Desario hitting on Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century.
Mmm, close but no cigar, Facebook. Give me some credit—I like my soaps to be of a high quality.
Okay, except for this one.
TV Promo of the Day: First look at James Franco’s General Hospital character Franco (meta!) — “a psychotic yet self-deprecating artist who is fixated on death and will zero in on Jason Morgan,” whoever that is.
Franco’s two-month-long story arc starts next week.
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My mother and I have taken to talking about soaps—it’s made for a nice bonding activity. However, neither of us understand the concept behind General Hospital.
So if anything, to win an election in Port Charles, you’ve gotta win a lot of different kinds of voters. The vampire-mob-doctor vote is key.
At a time when budgets are stretched as tight as a spandex bikini on a hippopotamus, some fans will undoubtedly wonder how ABC convinced the star of box office blockbusters to appear on a daytime soap. Hang onto your stethoscopes, GH fans: [James] Franco actually approached General Hospital about the gig. The actor is reportedly using his stint in Port Charles as research for an upcoming film in which he’ll play a soap star.
Soap Central. Suddenly this whole thing makes more sense. I was trying to explain the whole thing to my mom a few weeks ago, and the conversation went something like this
Me: I just don’t understand why he’s going on a soap.
Mom: He must be hard up for money.
Me: That’s not it. He’s like, a real actor. He’s in real movies.
Mom: Everyone does things they don’t want to do.
Me: No, you don’t get it. He’s up-and-coming. He’s in two graduate programs. He’s in Oscar nominated films.
Mom: Two graduate programs? That explains it.
Me: No, Mom, he’s famous. That doesn’t explain it.
I am ashamed a bit at that “real actor” remark though. Sorry, soap stars, I love you and you are so real actors and I said that back when I didn’t love you enough yet. I’m so, so sorry.
I just can’t even wrap my head around this. Good for him? This almost makes me want to watch GH. Except that it’s General Hospital. And it’s set at a hospital. And I don’t even watch Grey’s Anatomy so I don’t think I could manage this.
