TEN Gossip

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:19 PM PDT

It’s nice to see James Franco again! He’s on the Winter 2011 issue of VMAN magazine that came out on Thursday. I think I want to read this issue anyways, it has the Best Music of 2011 in it too. I always have loved listening to the countdown’s at the end of the year when they reveal the top 200 songs of the year. Why? I’m a dork.

Here are the highlights from the interview in the magazine:

On life on and off the big screen:"There is a bit of a dichotomy between my work on camera as an actor and off-camera. I am still hired as an actor in commercial narrative films and my responsibility there is to create characters that are believable and entertaining in each given project. I don't see my participation in films like Milk or 127 Hours as anything other than storytelling devices among many such devices for the directors of those films. I am a collaborator, but a collaborator serving a director's vision."

On people's skepticism of the concept of celebrity: "You know, I've embraced it now. I actually like this sort of superficial criticism of the work, because in a way it becomes this sort of beautiful reflection of our culture."

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