Bustle<\/a>, Franco credited his brother with helping him initially secure an agent, but insisted that he would have \u201cdisappeared\u201d by now if he were relying on nepotism.<\/p>\n\u201cNo one was going to hire me just because I was James Franco\u2019s little brother,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cIf I sucked, I would\u2019ve disappeared very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing his current relationship with his brother, he said: \u201cAt this point, I think he\u2019s excited just to see me trying new things and to see me grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Franco and his brother acted together in the 2017 film The Disaster Artist.<\/p>\n
In recent years, Franco has collaborated on several occasions with his wife, Mad Men actor Alison Brie.<\/p>\n
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Dave and James Franco at the Golden Globes party in 2018 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Most recently, Brie and Franco co-starred in the body horror film Together, directed by Michael Shanks.<\/p>\n
Asked about the association with Brie\u2019s work, Franco said: \u201cIf the downside of working with my wife is that people are saying, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s just Alison Brie’s husband,\u2019 that\u2019s fine. It\u2019s worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a four-star review of Together for The Independent, critic Clarisse Loughrey wrote: \u201cAs a relationship horror, Together understands that the call is coming from both inside and outside the house, and that how two people feel about each other can be shaped as much in private as it is in public. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile Shanks\u2019s ideas are smart, and his direction of the film\u2019s digital and practical effects suitably crunchy and nasty, it\u2019s the casting that makes all the difference. Brie and Franco are married in real life, and that lends an easy, lived-in quality to their characters on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cBut the genius lies in the fact that neither of them are traditional horror stars \u2013 they\u2019re comedy people, used to bending their bodies and faces in odd ways in order to get a very different kind of reaction from audiences. You have to commit every part of yourself if you want to be a clown, after all.\u201d<\/p>\n
After years as an A-list Hollywood star, James Franco has largely been away from screens for the past five years. In 2018, he was accused of sexual misconduct by five women. At the time, the actor said the allegations were \u201cnot accurate\u201d but that he did not want to \u201cshut down\u201d people who \u201cdid not have a voice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two of his accusers went on to seek legal action in 2019. The suit was settled in 2021, with the actor agreeing to pay $2.23m (\u00a31.67m). Since the settlement, Franco has signed on to several film projects currently in development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-237984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}