"James Franco was in the movie, but I was supposed to be in there also. "The role I would have played would be like a drug dealer, or the friend of a drug dealer, Gucci Mane," he claims.
Riff Raff claims Korine asked him to be in the movie, alongside Gucci Mane, but scheduling didn't work out. If I explained the story to u then u wouldn't even believe me. Harmony Korine called my phone to be in this new movie Spring Breakers. Franco is dressed like Riff Raff in the shot, and when Fuse asked the MTV reality star turned absurdist rapper why, he said: This morning, Gomez tweeted a photo from the shoot, taking place in Florida.
Justin Bieber's girlfriend Selena Gomez, former Disney star Vanessa Hudgens, ABC Family actress Ashley Benson and Harmony's wife Rachel Korine will star in the movie, about college girls who get bailed out of jail by Franco, a rapping drug and arms dealer. Riff Raff says James Franco will play him in Harmony Korine’s upcoming film, Spring Breakers. But if he still wants to send me clothes, he can." Franco also denies claims that Riff Raff sent him clothes to wear on set: "No, never. So there's no chance Riff Raff could have been offered the role.įranco says he and Korine did watch Riff Raff videos "as inspiration" while filming, but that a "local Florida rapper named Dangerous," was the primary influence on the character. I had been a fan of his work and he wanted to do something and I said, "I'll do anything with you." We started discussing ideas and one day he sent me a treatment, which he said he's never done before, just to run it by me…And then he wrote the script. Harmony (Korine, the movie's writer and director) and I were talking about doing a movie together before Spring Breakers was even conceived. I'll tell you why he could have never been offered the role. Update, : Franco says his Spring Breakers character is not based on Riff Raff, and that Harmony Korine never offered Riff Raff a role in the film. Riff Raff probably won't make an appearance in the movie, but he did get to play basketball with Korine this summer. The film, scored by Skrillex, is set to premiere in September at the Venice Film Festival. It’s like nutrition in my body." I feel that way exactly about this performance.Update, : Watch a clip from Spring Breakers, featuring a dark monologue by Selena Gomez, above. My favorite part is when he encourages the two women he's with to kiss and then when they do, he says, "Oh, that’s so good for me right now. Riff Raff tells club owner Cutter that he's there "to get my monies.need my fettuccines." He refers to a waitress as a "mermaid." He warns women of tumbleweeds in the club. It is, however, astoundingly weird and seemingly improvised. Riff Raff's Jamie has nothing to do with Franco in anything but name in concept - it'd be a stretch to even say that this is Riff Raff doing James Franco doing Riff Raff. Just watch the movie.Īnd so, in an utterly bizarre act of pop cultural revenge, Riff Raff plays Jamie Franko on a One Life To Live, just as James Franco played Franco on General Hospital from 2009 to 2011. I'll fly out there and do the movie." But also didn't put me on the soundtrack, so now I'm looking at it like maybe he's not my friend? And the fact that I have to fight this quote unquote James Franco situation - I don't know, man. It even came to a point where I was like, "I don't need to get paid.
Here is what Riff Raff told Grantland on the quote-unquote situation: One night last week, Houston rapper/viral phenomenon Riff Raff was sitting in my living room in… Riff Raff's Got a Record Deal: Making Sense of the Most Viral Human Being in Music Franco gave more credit to Florida rapper Dangeruss as "a main source of inspiration" for the role in an essay he wrote for MTV.
Spring Breakers," director Harmony Korine initially invited Riff Raff to appear in the film, but that eventually changed. As detailed in Amos Barshad's excellent Grantland piece " The Curious Case of Riff Raff vs. It is a predictably unsubtle jab at James Franco, whose Spring Breakers character Alien was clearly inspired by Riff Raff. The hardest working assclown in showbiz, rapper Riff Raff, appears on today's episode of the soap opera One Life to Live ( now brought to you by Hulu) as a “art dealer, multimillionaire” named Jamie Franko.
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