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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Disaster Artist' Is A Very James Franco Production

James Franco's The Disaster Artist tells the story of the making of The Room, one of the most famous awful movies of all time. The panel sits down to talk about Franco's vision and his muse.
Greg (Dave Franco) and Tommy (James Franco) in <em>The Disaster Artist</em>.

You never know with James Franco.

You might get the sensitive, believable Franco of . You might get the serious, introspective Franco of . You might get the self-serious, or the comically self-serious Franco of Then there's the gleefully cheap-laugh Franco of, say, . But there may never have been a project so obviously suited to the actor-poet-writer-philosopher-pretty-plausible-as-a-weed-dealer as , which is about the making of the terrible 2003 film .

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