![]() ![]() And that wasn’t in a giant Joel Shumacher film, but in Judd Apatow’s cult television series, “Freaks and Geeks.”īut by 2002, Renfro and Franco were competing for roles, including 2002’s Deuces Wild, a film about 1950s street gangs in Brooklyn that was a famous flop, with The Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis declaring: “Astonishing isn’t the word-neither is incompetent, incoherent or just plain crap. When he dropped out of his first year at UCLA to take acting classes full time, it was three years before he got his big break. But his parents and grandparents were artsy types, given to encouraging him to be successful he had an internship at Lockheed Martin at one point, even. The actor James Franco got in some trouble as a kid, too he stole designer perfume from stores and resold it to classmates, and spent a brief time in juvy. In the following 14 years he had roles in 21 more films, several short films, and had made a couple of television appearances before he died of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles. In his first three years in film he shared scenes with Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony LaPaglia, Mary-Louise Parker, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt and Ian McKellen. Brad Renfro, who was being raised by his grandmother, a church secretary, in a small town in Tennessee, had played a drug dealer in a school play sponsored by the anti-drug advocacy group D.A.R.E., and was brought to Finn’s attention by local police. ![]()
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