James Franco says that being homeless “isn’t so hard”

James Franco really needs to hire a competent publicist ASAP to get himself out of this one – what an idiot.

Seems that James was researching a movie he did with Robert de Niro in which he plays a homeless man. To “research” his role, he decided to try being homeless for a weekend. ONE weekend, folks. Here’s what he had to say:

“I stayed a whole weekend on the street, we panhandled, we made a sign. “We made at least $20 in half an hour, so, if you’re ever out of work… make a sign – `Homeless, Please Help’.”

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I can guarantee you that if this would have been wintertime he would have been singing a different tune. And I’m also pretty sure that a semi-cute actor is MUCH better at soliciting donations than a mentally ill drug addict wearing clothes that he salvaged from the dumpster.

Although, I have to say, if James Franco came up to me asking for money, I would SO give him some money. I’d also take him home and make him wash all the windows in my house wearing only a leather loincloth and some butter. DON’T ASK.