Interview with James Franco

While Franco has succeeded in other kinds of roles, the romantic ones leave the indelible impression. Let’s just say the guy can’t help it.

But spend a few minutes talking to him, and it quickly becomes clear that Franco, 32, has a lot more going on upstairs than great cheekbones.

He is completing a Master’s degree in creative writing at Columbia University, and Scribner is due to publish his first collection of short stories. He is also planning to do a PhD in English and film studies at Yale University. Having dropped out of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 13 years ago, Franco has made good on getting the “well-rounded education” that his parents – who raised him in Palo Alto, California, with two younger brothers – wanted him to have. Here are ten (other) things that could almost make you forget he’s the subject of a viral video on the web called James Franco (Why Do You Look So Good?).