James Franco Tells Esquire He’s Reading ‘Twilight’… For A Future “Project?”
Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by lisa in Movie Related, News, Stephenie Meyer Books
Hmmmmm… In an interview with Esquire Magazine, James Franco, says he’s reading Twilight for a “project” that he is “thinking about.”
Esquire: He sits by a side door near a pail of mop water. There’s a paperback, palm-pinched, cover down, in his right hand, and a big plastic shopping bag full up with something he doesn’t want to show just yet. When asked what he’s reading, Franco smiles his ungrudgingly adolescent smile, a grin as terminally satisfying as the last healthy squeeze on a tube of toothpaste. He is engaging, for just a second, in the mutual diction of actor and artist — “It’s for a project,” he says. But the word — project — thumps out of him unprecious and without bluster, as if he were naming a day of the week. He’s always got something going. He flips the book over. Twilight.
Keep in mind: The position of things is such that he doesn’t have to show the book. Had he said Jude the Obscure, no one would have been the wiser. He’s a graduate student, after all, enrolled in two universities at pretty much any given moment. “It’s crazy how much sexual tension there is,” he says. “It just builds and builds. I mean it never stops. It’s sort of explosive by the end. Crazy. Like they’ll blow up with it. And of course, they don’t.” He shrugs then, a good shrug, because he is selling nothing with it. “Which is the point too, I guess.”
Sometimes Franco goes a little hypnotic with the eye contact. What starts as a steady gaze generally transmutes into the oddly pleased squint that is his war paint, a look that allows him to play both stoner and supervillain with the same incredulous vacancy. He sighs a little, apologetic. “You probably know I have a lot of projects,” he says. “But that one is way, way off. It’s just something I’m thinking about.” He whisks at something in the air then. “Off in the distance. Way off.”
I wonder if he’s aware of the big can of worms he’s just opened up. However, I know I wouldn’t mind seeing him in Breaking Dawn, but, we’ll just have to be patient and see what this is all about until we hear something more from him.
Hey, James, feel free to expand on the “project” you’ve got in mind involving Twilight. 
Read the Esquire Article HERE.
