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Why is James Franco in a frat?


I haven't watched this, and I don't mind spoilers, but just curious why James Franco (at least based on the trailer) is in a frat? He's nearly 40. The other guys, I could buy that they're in college, even though they're also a little old for the role, but it's kinda creepy having someone as old as Franco supposedly as a peer with them in college. He's almost twice the age of a college student.

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Apparently he's a former frat member who attends a party for old time sake.

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Makes sense if thats true. Sometimes its the older alumni who come back for short visits that are the craziest. They want to relive their time at college and end up going overboard.

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It's a cameo, he plays an alumni. He's in the movie for maybe five minutes.

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Plus he's one of the producers!

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This seemed to be a vanity project for James.

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he was one of the main producers and had held onto the rights to film this for quite a number of years....the director thought it would be fun to bring him in for this cameo.....

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Because any time young virile white males are around he has to get off on their heady sexual pheromones. He's a closet case but not but maybe but overall wants to be forever young. note all the overt gay themed flicks he's produced and badly acted in and continues to ad nauseum. Franco is a male Norma Desmond living in a faux past he recreates on screen. He is aging badly. Too many tokes, schmokes and indulgences have wrinkled his skin, yellowed his teeth and too much reliance on tired tropes that make him look desperate and sad. He would be great in the remake of Sunset Blvd.,not as the suitor Joe Gillis or Norma, but as the dead monkey opening the film.

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Dave Franco played a guy in a frat. You know how these brotherly rivalries go. Now James has to be in two frat movies.

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His fake beard needs to be nominated for an oscar.

It's that man again!!

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LOL Prismark :)

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