Someone contains multitudes. Everyman James Franco recently declared his frustration over the dying soap opera industry. He told Access Hollywood, "I'm sad. They're just something that has always been around since I've been alive... I'm sad that it's possible they won't be there in the same way... I would be very, very sad if that suddenly didn't exist any more." Currently only four soaps remain on the air, including General Hospital, which Franco has guest starred on... and to our knowledge he's showed up at zero protests to keep them going.

Meanwhile, Franco is unveiling his latest big screen endeavor over in LA: an experimental biopic of the tortured, gay American poet Hart Crane, called The Broken Tower, which began as an assignment when he was at NYU. He went into detail about the film, which is a "stream-of-consciousness telling of Hart’s early years... his sojourns through New York, Cuba and Paris; his torrid affair with a ship’s purser named Emil Opffer (Michael Shannon); his manic highs and suicidal lows and of course, his unapologetic love of men. The sex scenes, are, accordingly, explicit, with Franco-as-Hart ebulliently performing fellatio on what appears to be an impressive phallus, or ecstatic as he is topped during anal sex." Well, you can't do that on soap operas! Check out some New York City scenes here, Franco discussing the film, below:

And here he is talking about being made fun of as "the actor who does too many things":