{"id":2129282,"date":"2025-11-01T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2129282"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:53:19","slug":"dave-franco-says-the-reason-he-was-successful-wasnt-just-because-hes-james-francos-brother-if-i-sucked-i-wouldve-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dave-franco-says-the-reason-he-was-successful-wasnt-just-because-hes-james-francos-brother-if-i-sucked-i-wouldve-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Franco Says the Reason He Was Successful Wasn\u2019t \u2018Just Because\u2019 He\u2019s James Franco\u2019s Brother: \u2018If I Sucked, I Would\u2019ve Disappeared\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">In a recent interview with Bustle, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2002649\/\">Dave Franco<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0290556\/\">James Franco<\/a>\u2019s brother, asserted that \u201cno one was going to hire me just because I was James Franco\u2019s little brother.\u201d However, he did admit that having a movie-star sibling helped him get his foot in the door when he started his acting career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I sucked, I would\u2019ve disappeared very quickly,\u201d he said. He added of their relationship, \u201cAt this point, I think he\u2019s excited just to see me trying new things and to see me grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave Franco\u2019s first notable credit was on a Season 10 episode of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0328721\/\">WB<\/a> drama \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115083\/\">7th Heaven<\/a>\u201d in 2006. A year later, he broke into the movie business with a small role in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0609549\/\">Greg Mottola<\/a>\u2019s iconic coming-of-age comedy \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0829482\/\">Superbad<\/a>.\u201d His star rose in the early 2010s with supporting roles in \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089175\/\">Fright Night<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1232829\/\">21 Jump Street<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1670345\/\">Now You See Me<\/a>.\u201d His&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with Bustle, Dave Franco, James Franco\u2019s brother, asserted that \u201cno one was going to hire me just because I was James Franco\u2019s little brother.\u201d However, he did admit that having a movie-star sibling helped him get his foot in the door when he started his acting career. \u201cIf I sucked, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2129283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2129282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dave-Franco-Says-the-Reason-He-Was-Successful-Wasnt-\u2018Just.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129284,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129282\/revisions\/2129284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}