James Franco is returning for a second season of “Making a Scene with James Franco” on AOL. The ten-episode short-form comedy series reinterprets and mashes together iconic television shows from the past, many of which, Franco confesses, he had never seen before.
“I have to admit that until recently – other than when I was a kid – I didn’t watch much TV. I was really more of a movie guy. But now I’m doing a miniseries for Hulu, ‘11/22/63’ and a pilot with David Simon (‘The Wire’) for HBO, ‘The Deuce’ [which focuses on the porn industry in the ‘70s and ‘80s]. So, I’ve been binging like hard core. I have a lot of time in my trailer, so now I’ve watched all of ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘The Wire,’ ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ and ‘True Detective,’ — that wasn’t hard. I loved ‘Fargo,’ I watched all of ‘Game of Thrones,’ and we’re making our way through ‘Downton Abbey.’ And of course I loved ‘Breaking Bad.’ What’s next is the big question.”
“After the first season where we mashed-up great films we asked the audience and they wanted us to focus on TV,” Franco said. “We took the top 20 shows and put them on a wheel and let that decide which shows we mashed-up. Some I’d watched as a kid like ‘Saved by the Bell.’ But I hadn’t seen things like ‘Married with Children.’ There were some that I’d never seen and some I was surprised that the audience didn’t pick. I was really surprised that ‘The Sopranos’ wasn’t on there.”
“In a way, the series ‘Breaking Bad’ is a mash-up in itself.” Franco said. “It’s sort of a domestic drama and then this sort of drug/cop show mashed together, as it is. And then there’s Walter White just sort of trying to tie those sides together. So maybe that aided our mash-up, that ‘Breaking Bad’ is already sort of a mash-up. But whenever the wheel spins and lands on two shows, we sort of have to decide which show is going to dictate our style.”
In the case of “Breaking Bad,” Franco and his team were tasked with blending it with HBO’s “Sex and the City.”
“We decided that if we had the ‘Sex and the City’ ladies sitting around and talking about the dates that they had, it could work if Carrie Bradshaw was somehow dating Walter,” Franco concluded.
Watch the madness below.
And because we ought NEVER TO FORGET, here’s his brother Dave fucking himself in a Funny or Die clip. You can watch THAT here.
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