James Franco ♥ Brad Renfro
Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 2:00AM Whose name would you carve into your arm?
I ask because James Franco carved Brad Renfro's into his... at least photographically. (Is it real? You tell us the next time you see James Franco naked.) This carving was part of the latest issue of The Thing, a mysterious quarterly periodical that comes in the shape of a "useful" object.
I'm not sure how useful a small mirror with "Brad Forever" scrawled in lipstick by Franco's own hand is, but it was fun to open and who am I to judge obsessive actorly devotions? I have yet to carve an actresses name onto my body but never say never...
<--- I'm pretending that this photo to your left is the exact moment when Franco actually wrote on my copy.
This is only the freshest example that Franco is basically the Lady Gaga of movies: always throwing his eccentric persona at you in ways you're not expecting, even though you're expecting personal eccentricities.
Between this and that very public My Own Private Idaho obsession, we're realizing that James Franco is not an actressexual at all (our kind of people) but the other kind: an actor who obsesses over other male actors.
Or maybe he just really loves The Client (1994) and we just don't know about his Susan Sarandon fetish yet?
What do you suppose his favorite Brad Renfro movie is: Bully? The Client? Apt Pupil?
What's yours?
Actors on Actors, Brad Renfro, James Franco
Reader Comments (16)
I have seen Bully like 5 times and am just gaga over how hot Brad Renfro was. Gone too soon...
Bully. Hands down. A pretty underrated movie if you ask me.
I don't believe in tattoos
for myself. Since you brought her up
I wish to God Susan Sarandon comes back
in a big way. She looks great without any plastic
surgery.
He was great in Bully. I barely remember Apt Pupil (beyond remembering I liked it).
Scott C -- i don't remember apt pupil at all either but IAN MCKELLEN! perhaps i should take a second look.
The Client - one of the all time best child acting performances. and Bully was too upsetting, the whole movie freaked me out...
Brad Renfro killed himself, right?
James Franco is so weird. And not in the weird fascinating way, but in the weird annoying way.
I wish I could contribute more, but the only film I have ever seen Brad Renfro in was Ghost World =/
Brad Renfro was one of my favorite actors :) My favorite Brad Renfro movies would be The Client, The Cure (great movie with him and Joseph Mazzello, really underrated), and Bully. I thought I gave a great performance in Sleepers, although the movie was too disturbing for me to watch twice.
Ned -- he died of a heroin overdose.
Meghan -- i remember not liking sleepers at all. But now i can't remember who played Brad all grown up because it was one of htose halfsies movies with famous kid actors and famous adult actors playign the same roles.
Nat, according to imdb, the adult counterpart to Brad Renfro was (wait for it!) Brad Pitt.
it is real... franco missed a shoot because it got infected...
They became good friends when they filmed the movie "Deuces Wild" years ago.
Please,
there is no need to insult James Franco by comparing him with that songs ripping-off phony called Lady Gaga.
"Sonny" oh. wait.... Brad Renfro...What about his weird appearance on "Law & Order" Spiraling was all i could think of....
God I loved Brad Renfro in Bully. One of the best movies ever. He was completely James Dean-esque in all of his movies but particularly in Bully. He is missed. RIP buddy.