James Franco Now a Professional Student

Sam Rashid — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:21:08 +0000

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Oh, James Franco and his many roles. He has been a spaced out stoner, a jealous rich boy turned villain turned friend, and a great boyfriend. But, according to People.com, Franco’s favourite role is being a professional student.

“I love school,” Franco said, at the Tribeca Film Festival screening of his directorial debut, the documentary Saturday Night. The screening took place in New York on Sunday.

“I go to school because I love being around people who are interested in what I’m interested in and I’m having a great experience.”

The varied movie star is currently studying filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Back in June 2008, he graduated from UCLA with an undergraduate degree in English, and also enrolled in an MFA writing program at New York’s Columbia University.

“I’m studying things that I love so it’s not like it’s a chore,” Franco said.

And with his film completed, Franco is pretty sure he passed and is not worried about his final grade.

“School is a way to take my other pursuits like directing and writing seriously,” Franco said. “I could go out and make movies and direct movies having not gone to school, but being at school I’m in touch with incredible teachers, incredible writers who are in an environment where they are solely focused helping people in becoming a better director, writer. At film school I know that the feedback is real and honest and only makes you a better filmmaker.”

Emma Watson Enrolls at Brown

Vanessa Baker — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:47:19 +0000

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Correcton: andPOP initially reported that Emma Watson was attending Columbia University while in fact she is attending Brown University.

Harry Potter star Emma Watson will be attending New York’s Brown University in the fall, reports Perez Hilton. The British star, 19, who plays Harry’s friend Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, will be living in a dorm room and says she’s looking for some “normality” in her life.

“As long as there are no Harry Potter posters on the wall, I will be fine and happy,” she said, adding she hopes her roommate isn’t a fanatic of the series.

“I really hope they are a really massive Harry Potter fan,” teased Watson’s co-star, Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry. “I hope you walk in and the first thing you see is your face on a duvet.”

Watson says she thinks she’s “reasonably okay to live with.”

She will be taking a break from acting to study English literature. The Independent reports, to avoid attention, she has enrolled as Charlotte E. Watson, rather than her given name, Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson.

The sixth of the eight films in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, hits theatres July 15. The films are based on the popular novels of the same name by J.K. Rowling.

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