In an article from BlackBookMag.com, James Franco mentions that his journey of becoming an actor may have begun as a child when he and one of his neighbors used to bond over their subscriptions to Fan magazine.
“I had posters up of Justine Bateman in Satisfaction, the cast of Stand by Me and The Lost Boys poster—I got that even before I saw the movie. I thought it was the coolest thing.”
Like characters from these movies, Franco would get in trouble with the law as a youngster, and eventually had to discipline himself.
“I had to stop hanging out with a certain group of people, because I got in so much trouble with them,” Franco says. “For some reason, I was like a magnet for the police. I would get caught for the stupidest things… wandering around drunk, stuff like that. They weren’t the worst people in the world, it was just that I was really dumb when I was around them,”
Satisfaction
Stand by Me
The Lost Boys
