By now, you most likely know that James Franco is an unabashed fan of Twilight , so much so that he extolled the series’ virtues to Esquire and confessed to petitioning for a role in Breaking Dawn while visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live! What you probably don’t know is that the Oscar-nominated actor/serial multi-tasker could have actually snagged a part in the franchise if he was willing to make a few movie star concessions.
Talk about a natural action star. Already, we’ve seen Taylor Lautner run , jump , slide across broken glass and miraculously grow stubble in the promo materials for John Singleton’s Abduction . Now, check out the Twilight alum and his co-star Lily Collins as they race full speed on a motorcycle in the latest still from Lionsgate, and most importantly, help us caption.
We’ve all seen sad movies and retained traumatic memories from them. If you didn’t bawl at the end of Philadelphia or weep throughout Up or shoot tears perpendicularly during the Jean-Claude Van Damme/Dennis Rodman film Double Team , you’re less human than Movieline’s staff. Now lachrymose responses are part of a fascinating, cinema-related study : In 1995, scientists gathered film clips that made patients sad, amused, or evoked other emotions (for the purposes of understanding whether sadness leads to overeating, whether fear leads to over-spending, etc.). What’s the movie those scientists believe is most effective in producing melancholy? The answer will upset you — though maybe you’ll come up with a sadder movie yet.