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Gay Artist Convinced Franco to Do Daytime
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When General Hospital announced James Franco would be joining
the cast as a special guest star, media outlets universally asked,
"Why?" Movieline has the answer: openly gay artist Carter, who has frequently collaborated with Franco in the past and was profiled earlier this year in The Advocate.
"It was an idea that I posed to him, and it's tied to another film that he and I are working on now," Carter tells Movieline. "It's not specifically for another project, because I know that he's really enjoying the challenge of working on a soap -- it's a very taxing job, and an interesting thing for him to be doing -- but it does have to do with another film that he and I are working on."
Read the rest of the interview here.
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