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January 13, 2012 Art

10 Artists James Franco's Better Suited to Portray than Robert Mapplethorpe 

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James Franco as Pablo Picasso.
  • James Franco as Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso. Aside from Anthony Hopkins playing old man Pablo in 1996 there hasn't been a major Hollywood Picasso biopic since the Modernist master's death. I want to know more about his youth, and I want that youth to be embodied by James Franco; just look at how nicely he fills out that suit. (And Marie-Thérèse will be played by Mila Kunis. Action!)

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