1. He's funny - From his days on the tremendously underrated television show Freaks and Geeks to the 2008 film Pineapple Express to the upcoming stoner-slacker movie Your Highness (due out this April), Franco has demonstrated his ability to play comedic roles just as well as serious ones. He even managed to be hilarious during his short cameo in Knocked Up, in which he played a disgusted version of himself, cringing at the site of a newly-pregnant Katherine Heigl vomiting into a trash-can.
2. He's hard working - Franco attended UCLA as an undergraduate from 2006-2008, where he graduated with a GPA over 3.5 and took between 20 and 62 credits a quarter (the normal limit is 19)...all while continuing to act. In 2008 he moved to New York to simultaneously study at three different institutions (Columbia University's MFA Writing Program, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for Filmmaking, and Brooklyn College for fiction writing). Franco will also attend Rhode Island School of Design and is a Ph.D students at Yale. His tastes are incredibly wide-ranging, matched only by his work ethic.
3. He's self aware - Unlike many other actors, Franco seems relatively down to earth. After he canceled giving a commencement speech to UCLA in 2009, Franco released this self-mocking video with Funny or Die. Responding in an Entertainment Weekly interview to speculation about his sexual orientation (due to the fact that he has portrayed three gay characters), Franco smartly responded, "there are also lots of other aspects about these characters that I’m interested in, in addition to their sexuality...or, you know what, maybe I’m just gay". Like him or not as an actor, you must admit that he's got a good sense of humor about his profession and success.
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