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In the last two Spiderman movies, James Franco played the character of Harry Osborn, the owner of Osborn Industries Inc. He is the deluded friend of Peter Parker who thinks that Peter Parker A.K.A Spider-Man killed his father. Another major tension between these two friends is Marry Jane, whom they both love. James Franco, talks about his character and about the action scenes he had to perform in this movie.

Here is an excerpt of the interview:

What was your favorite part of the movie once you saw it?

Watching it, for my character, I enjoy just the turns that he gets to take. And I like watching the points where he turns. Harry’s definitely villainous in this film, but he also has a point where he becomes the old, good Harry. And he’s a bit more innocent and goofy, and that was unusual for me to have those kinds of scenes in the Spider-Man franchise, and so they were fun. And then I really had a good time working out the scenes and playing the scenes where Harry’s turning back and Peter’s not quite sure what’s happening and kind of manipulating him, it was fun just to work that out. And then just as a viewer, I thought the way they executed the Sandman special effects were incredible. I thought some of those battle scenes between Spider-Man and Sandman were incredible.

Can you talk about some of the physical stuff you had to do, you had to do a lot more of that kind of action.

Yea, I certainly did, I was much more... a part of the action in a much bigger way on this film than the others. I now realize why Tobey was so tired after the first two films. And it’s not that any part of the scenes, the action scenes, are especially dangerous or strenuous, it’s just that they take so long to do. I have three major action scenes in the film, and they each took about a month to a month and a half to shoot. Compared to like a dramatic scene that takes at most a day, maybe two.

So you’re hanging on wires and you’re against a green screen and all that?

Yes, well. There were two different fight scenes. The first fight that Peter and Harry have is an aerial battle in the beginning of the film. And that was all green screen, you know flying through the city, so we had to shoot it against a green screen. That process involves, me putting on the suit, which takes about a half an hour, and then the camera crew has to light for about an hour, and then the stunt team has to rehearse, and then I have to get strapped into the wires and they have to raise me up, and everyone gets coordinated, and the costumer has to make sure that the costume looks right, and the wind fans go and we’re ready to go, and then they say ‘action’ and I go like that. And then ‘cut’, and that’s it. And I get down, and undress a little bit, and they reset for the next shot for an hour our two. And so it takes about a month and a half to do. It’s not like I’d be exhausted after doing one of those shots, it’s just that you go in every day and it’s this process, and it’s draining just because of the length. It’s a matter of staying motivated over a month and a half and keeping a continuity of performance over a month and a half, because in the movie, this scene is going to take about 5 minutes, so it has to be continuous, the performance has to be continuous. So that’s the difficulty of that. And then we did a more traditional fight scene in the mansion, and that was done in a way that I’ve done before. Like a traditional fight scene, you choreograph it, and Tobey and I went through the moves. You have to know when somebody’s throwing the punch and know when to fake the hit, and that kind of thing, but even that took six weeks. We shot I think a couple weeks on main unit and then I went back for about a month on second unit and shot that. I think on a different film, that scene could’ve taken a week to shoot, but they’re very meticulous on Spider-Man.

So you say you’re going to be in Spider-Man 4?

No, I don’t think anybody knows what’s happening. I think they’ve ordered a script for it, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that Sam or Tobey are going to do it. I’m sure they would like to if it’s right. But I know Sam has worked probably 6 or 7 years straight. We finish shooting, but then he goes onto post-production and then after that’s done he goes onto pre-production for the next movie, designing the effects and writing the script. So he has really not had a break for 6 years, so I’m sure he’s a little tired, although I know that he loves these movies more than anything and he identifies with Peter Parker. I think that it’s been such a perfect fit for him, I can see it being very hard for him to let it go. But if they were to make another one, I think they should either use the same group, Sam and Tobey and Kirsten and whoever else, or if they change one they should just change everything.

Harry Osborn follows the path of his father, Norman Osborn and becomes the Green Goblin who wants to kill Spider Man. Along with him, there are sandman, and venom. The three villains hit up the movie with lots of fight sequences. I hope, Sam goes for Spider-Man 4.

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