James Franco must still be inhaling the bong water from Pineapple Express, because in a recent essay, he wrote about his love for performance art and credited it as the real reason he's doing General Hospital.
Here's a little of what James wrote via the Wall Street Journal:
I have been obsessed with performance art for over a decade—ever since the Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña came to visit my class at Cal Arts summer school. I finally took the plunge and experimented with the form myself when I signed on to appear on 20 episodes of "General Hospital" as the bad-boy artist "Franco, just Franco." I disrupted the audience's suspension of disbelief, because no matter how far I got into the character, I was going to be perceived as something that doesn't belong to the incredibly stylized world of soap operas. Everyone watching would see an actor they recognized, a real person in a made-up world. In performance art, the outcome is uncertain—and this was no exception. My hope was for people to ask themselves if soap operas are really that far from entertainment that is considered critically legitimate. Whether they did was out of my hands.
Your perception of performance atr is lost on me, James. i say if you wanted to do real performance art, how about renting out some hole-in-the-wall in the East Village, Dress up in drag, take about 12 enemas and shit it all over the audience while lip-synching to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." Now that's what I call real performance art.
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