{"id":112876,"date":"2025-11-01T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112876\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:28:09","slug":"dave-franco-says-the-reason-he-was-successful-wasnt-just-because-hes-james-francos-brother-if-i-sucked-i-wouldve-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112876\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Franco Says the Reason He Was Successful Wasn\u2019t \u2018Just Because\u2019 He\u2019s James Franco\u2019s Brother: \u2018If I Sucked, I Would\u2019ve Disappeared\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent interview with Bustle, Dave Franco<\/a>, James Franco<\/a>\u2019s brother, asserted that \u201cno one was going to hire me just because I was James Franco\u2019s little brother.\u201d However, he did admit that having a movie-star sibling helped him get his foot in the door when he started his acting career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I sucked, I would\u2019ve disappeared very quickly,\u201d he said. He added of their relationship, \u201cAt this point, I think he\u2019s excited just to see me trying new things and to see me grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave Franco\u2019s first notable credit was on a Season 10 episode of the WB<\/a> drama \u201c7th Heaven<\/a>\u201d in 2006. A year later, he broke into the movie business with a small role in Greg Mottola<\/a>\u2019s iconic coming-of-age comedy \u201cSuperbad<\/a>.\u201d His star rose in the early 2010s with supporting roles in \u201cFright Night<\/a>,\u201d \u201c21 Jump Street<\/a>\u201d and \u201cNow You See Me<\/a>.\u201d His…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent interview with Bustle, Dave Franco, James Franco\u2019s brother, asserted that \u201cno one was going to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9721,9722,9718,9720,430,9719,156,434,4223,111,139,69,9723,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-112876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-cinema","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-films","16":"tag-hollywood","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-realisateurs","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112876","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=112876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}