Dave Franco has long struggled against being labeled the “kid brother” type, from the time he was an unknown growing up in Palo Alto, Calif. “My first job was at a mom-and-pop video store when I w…
title that, when it hits on July 24, will represent one of the few summer theatrical releases amid the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a moment 20 years in the making, some of Franco’s lifelong colleagues tell, one that he has achieved through relentless curiosity on the job. Much of his experience was earned alongside his brother James, whose career has stalled amid sexual harassment allegations from former students, which the older Franco denies.
A reprieve seemingly comes in the form of the rental house — all picture windows, frothy hot tubs and fecund luxury. But tensions rise immediately when Mina, of Iranian descent, questions why she was rejected in applying for the place on a home-sharing app, while white male business partner Charlie was accepted only moments later. After checking in with the property’s groundskeeper, a gruff local who hurls microaggressions at Mina, it becomes clear she was racially profiled.
“He has always been outwardly inquisitive about the process, in a way that I’ve grown to recognize is only common among people who themselves want to one day make things,” says Seth Rogen, who has seen Franco through projects like the “Neighbors” films and “The Disaster Artist.”Rogen says plenty of actors ask questions, but Franco “always seemed to be trying to gain understanding of what was happening as a producer, director, writer. He was always talking to cinematographers.
“He was a mentor to me throughout the process, and I trusted his taste inherently,” Franco says of Durkin. “He gave me the confidence to make a horror film that doesn’t rely on jump scares. Instead I looked at what he did with ‘Martha,’ where he set a very specific tone with his music and visuals. As an audience member, you believed something scary could happen at any moment even when there’s nothing overtly creepy on-screen.
“To me, that’s admirable,” Brie says. “I love acting, and throwing yourself into a role on set is one thing. I would consider these other things really far out of my control. I think Dave has such a perfectionist nature. I’ve worked with actors who are happy to come up with problems on set without offering ways to solve them. Dave is the opposite.”
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