{"id":112097,"date":"2025-11-01T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112097\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:39:09","slug":"dave-franco-doesnt-think-his-success-is-due-to-brother-james-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112097\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Franco Doesn’t Think His Success Is Due To Brother James Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn an era driven by Hollywood nepo babies<\/a>, Dave Franco<\/a> doesn\u2019t totally agree that the label applies to him.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Emmy nominee, whose brother is James Franco<\/a>, argued that \u201cno one was going to hire me just because I was James Franco\u2019s little brother,\u201d although he credits his big bro for getting him an agent and helping jumpstart his Hollywood career.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf I sucked, I would\u2019ve disappeared very quickly,\u201d he told Bustle<\/a>, noting that the Oscar-nominated eldest Franco brother is proud of his success.<\/p>\n

\n\tDave said, \u201cAt this point, I think he\u2019s excited just to see me trying new things and to see me grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter making his onscreen debut in a 2006 episode of 7th Heaven, followed by an appearance in Superbad the next year, Dave Franco has gone on to star in such films as Fright Night (2011), 21 Jump Street (2012), Now You See Me (2013), Neighbors (2014) and Together (2025), in addition to starring alongside James in 2017\u2019s The Disaster Artist. This year, Dave extended his TV resume with his Emmy-nominated appearance as himself this year on The Studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing a $2M+ settlement<\/a> in the 2018 sexual exploitation class action lawsuit brought by his former acting students, James Franco most recently signed on for a role in Adam Rifkin\u2019s psychedelic stoner comedy Toad<\/a>, co-starring Tiffany Haddish, Christopher Meloni, Craig Robinson and Katt Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an era driven by Hollywood nepo babies, Dave Franco doesn\u2019t totally agree that the label applies to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,70293,156,18883,59013,17672,34903,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-112097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dave-franco","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-james-franco","12":"tag-nepo-babies","13":"tag-nepo-baby","14":"tag-nepotism","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}