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FRANCOPHILIA

Franco Does Bieber, in the Name of Harmony Korine

By Amos Barshad at

Back in the spring, when James Franco was shooting Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine's much-anticipated teensploitation crime flick — James shot a video of himself, in character as the corn-rowed drug dealer Alien, singing along to a few bars of his cast mate Selena Gomez's jam "Love You Like a Love Song." Considering the particular confluence of all of those wonderful things (most of all the cornrows, of course), it got no small traction:

Later, in an interview with Vulture plugging his meta-art-General-Hospital project Francophrenia, James downplayed the attention he gets when he does stuff like lip-synch to Gomez:

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