Seriously, where does James Franco find the time?!?
Award-winning US theatre director and stage actor David Cromer is putting together a production of famed Tennessee Williams play Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway, and wants Franco onboard, alongside Nicole Kidman.
HitFix are reporting that negotiations have actually begun and if successful, this will be the 127 Hours star’s debut on Broadway – another string to his already over-stuffed bow. The play tells the story of a drifter who returns to his hometown (with a faded film star in tow) after many years of trying to make it in the movies.
Kidman is down to play the older film star, and after a slew of underperforming films, her own career now looks thankfully far from faded, as she has just scooped an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for recent cinematic outing Rabbit Hole. You may recall that the last time she appeared on Broadway in the late nineties in David Hare’s The Blue Room it caused quiet a stir, as she was required to perform in the nude for some of it.
If cast, Franco will be following in the footsteps of both Paul Newman (who played the lead when the play debuted on Broadway way back in1959) and Christopher Walken.
