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Similarly, with James Franco, we know him as this brilliant, eccentric artist, so you play on that as well. It’s probably taking what the world might think of James Franco, which is that he’s brilliant, he’s a little strange, he’s hard to pin down. But he’s thoughtful and sweet. In our movie his character does

act. We have a script that we’ve worked on for a long time, that we care a lot about, and we’ll always start there.

But we don’t know where we’re going when the day begins, because it’s always about being open to new ideas and feeling the moment. When you get these amazing actors, I can throw ideas out or they can. It’s a real collaboration. There are so many things in the movie that came up through the process. Maybe we came up with something on one day and decided to call it back on another day. I love it. It’s my favourite thing about making these kinds of movies, that you just don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s my job to guide it, so it’s not a complete free for all, it’s kind of controlled chaos. • Why Him? is out on April 19

James Franco with Keegan-Michael Key

a lot of different stuff. He does parkour training. He brings in a famous chef to cook for the family. A lot of James’s actual art peppers the house in the movie. We don’t say that his character painted it, but it was fun to put a lot of that artwork in that James actually did. I wanted him to feel comfortable on this set that was his character’s house. Humping Capybaras which hangs above Ned and Barb’s bed in the movie is a Franco original.

There are so many things in the movie that came up through the process

lines into the middle of a scene. How important is it to create new material when you’re on set? It is very important. It’s a high wire

On set, there’s a tremendous amount of improvisation, and you throw in

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