James Franco

Franco has always been a favorite of mine- ever since Freaks and Geeks, but this excerpt from his GQ interview is fuckin bananas.

One afternoon, I ask Franco about the research he did for Sonny, a minor but
perfectly robust movie directed by Nicolas Cage in which Franco plays a New
Orleans prostitute. After a failed attempt to get useful information from some
female prostitutes on Santa Monica Boulevard—during which the hookers insisted
on touching his penis, purportedly to establish that he was not an undercover
cop—he went to New Orleans, where he was introduced to a guy who was supposedly
a gigolo.
“There was a strip club on Bourbon Street,” he begins. “I had only
ever been to one strip club before I went to New Orleans to do that movie. But I
started going to every strip club. There was one they advertise as ‘Live Sex
Shows’ and I went in there and met a male stripper who said he was straight and
that he serviced men and women. I later found out he didn’t really tell the
truth all the time. But I thought he was a good model for my part. And he was
the guy I hung out with the most. He would do lap dances for people, and then in
between we hung out in the back. So I was with him one night and this other guy
came in. And this guy came in and said to my friend, ‘Hey, man, I need you for a
job right now—this guy wants two.’ And he said, ‘I’m hanging out with James
doing research for this movie.’ And the guy says, ‘You’re doing research? Okay.
You want to do real research. You’re going to come down, come to the hotel. This
guy’s so out of his mind on coke, he won’t even know what’s going on. You just
sit in the corner in the chair, take your shirt off, sit there, you can watch
the whole thing.’ I said, ‘Okay.’ ”

Here is the link to the complete interview.